A speaker at major women's events nationwide, where this year she'll be speaking before more than 100,000 women, Kingsbury said: "The issue of post-abortion syndrome, or PAS, comes up often. Women are literally buried beneath a guilt they've carried for years and in some cases decades."

Osteen--pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston--said his new book, released Nov. 3, had been influenced by people he had encountered at church and across the country.

Recognized leaders in multicultural publishing, the husband-and-wife team of Cheryl and Wade Hudson served as editors for the easy-to-read, hardcover Bible, which uses biblical heroes to illustrate spiritual challenges and triumphs of today's youth. The Hudsons are co-founders of Just Us Books, an independent publishing company that specializes in books and learning materials for children and young people.

Mark Driscoll, pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle and co-author of Vintage Church: Timeless Truths and Timely Methods (Crossway Books & Bibles), recently appeared on Nightline to discuss celebrity culture and the worship of false idols.

Driscoll defined an idol as "someone or something that occupies the place of God in your life. (It) gives you identity, meaning, value, purpose, love, significance, security."

He pointed to the reaction many around the world felt when superstar Michael Jackson died. "When his face is on your T-shirt and when you listen to his music for hours, when you give large sums of money to him personally, when his death causes you to go into a steep depression and you have a collection of memorabilia--I think if you walked in from another culture, you would say that's a very curious god they've chosen," he said.

Not only does idolatry affected the worshiper, but it also has an impact on the one worshipped, Driscoll said. "It destroys them," he added. Instead of considering the second commandment out of date, Driscoll said it "might be the most relevant commandment of all."

In another Nightline show, panelists--including Ed Young, pastor of Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas, which hosted the discussion--faced off on another of the commandments, the seventh on adultery.

The author of several books, including The Creative Leader: Unleashing the Power of Your Creative Potential (B&H Publishing Group), Young told Nightline that God is "pro-sex." He played off of a comment from panelist Noel Biderman. "I like Noel's line: 'Life is short. OK, 'Have an affair,' but I would add three words: with your spouse," Young said.

They say that by tapping into the benefits of social-media technology, their companies are successfully promoting their authors, books and other products.

Releasing in January from Tyndale House Publishers, Volume 1: Rapture's Witness, features the series' first three books--Left Behind, Tribulation Force and Nicolae. Volume 2: Deceiver's Game, releasing in April 2010, will include Soul Harvest, Apollyon and Assassins. The final two collections--Evil's Edge and World's End--will complete the repackaged editions and are scheduled for release in June 2010 and September 2010, respectively.

Christian retailers have responded enthusiastically to the campaign to see a million copies of the special-edition English Standard Version (ESV) Outreach New Testament delivered to homes across the country, according to Crossway Executive Vice President for Sales and Marketing Geoff Dennis.