As scandals rock the world of finance, a special genre of Christian books — books linking faith and prosperity — may look like a good antidote. Even if Wilkinson's books hold little interest for ...

As we have recently been reminded by Bruce Wilkinson’s best-selling book on the subject, Jabez—a man mentioned only once in the Bible—prayed for God to “enlarge his territory,” and God granted his ...

For 2,400 years, nobody paid much attention to an obscure Bible character named Jabez. His life story -- all three sentences of it -- was buried in one of the dullest sections of the Old Testament.

After half a year as a New York Times bestseller, “The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life” continues to be a phenomenon. The book, based on an obscure biblical passage in I ...