Patrick Higgins is an Amazon bestseller and multi-award winning author of the end times prophetic series, Chaos In The Blink Of An Eye, which won the Radiqx Press Spirit-Filled Fiction Award of Excellence after the first installment was published.
To date, more than 15,000 POSITIVE RATINGS – REVIEWS have been posted on Amazon, Goodreads, Barnes and Nobles, and Book Bub, on the first 9 installments of the “CHAOS” series (more than 20,000 have been posted on all of Higgins’ books combined)! And more than TWENTY MILLION (23,000,000) KENP pages have been read…and counting…
Higgins also wrote “I Never Knew You” – 2021 Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal in Christian fiction, 2021 Independent Author Network (IAN) book of the year winner in Christian fiction, 2022 American Best Book Awards finalist in Christian fiction, and 2021 International Book Awards finalist in Christian Fiction, “The Unannounced Christmas Visitor”, which won both the 2016 International Publishers Awards (IPA) and the 2018 Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal Awards in Christian fiction, “The Pelican Trees”, and “Coffee In Manila”.
His books, “I Never Knew You”, “The Unannounced Christmas Visitor”, and “The Pelican Trees” are now available in audiobook format.
Higgins was raised in the Catholic Church. Growing up, he had all the “religion” he could handle. What he didn’t have was God’s eternal assurance. He believed in Jesus, but was also taught to believe in Mary, not to mention the many saints countless Catholics prayed to each day. This would explain his utter confusion regarding the afterlife and his lack of intimacy with God. He was spiritually blinded to the true Gospel of Jesus Christ, without even knowing it.
Despite that he attended Mass and Catechism classes most Sundays (He was even an altar boy with his twin brother), was baptized as an infant into the Catholic Church, confessed his sins to Catholic priests, recited countless “Our Father’s” and “Hail Mary’s”, and performed many other so-called “good works” Higgins never felt a sustained closeness to the One who made him, only occasional spurts. If anything, all these things did was push him farther away from God. Even more telling, in all his years in the Catholic Church, no one ever encouraged him to read the Word of God for himself.
Everything changed in 1991 while Higgins was out walking one day. He came upon a Catholic Church. Instead of going inside, he looked skyward and spoke to God in the empty church parking lot. He felt this undeniable stirring in his spirit that day, and asked God to make Himself known to him. It was the beginning of a total life-transformation.
With his spiritual eyes and ears opened, for the first time in his life, Higgins started hungering and thirsting for the Word of God. Confronted by his hopeless sin condition, he repented before a just and Holy God, and received Christ (and Christ alone) as Lord and Savior. By far, it was the greatest day of his life. With his sins forgiven, Higgins yearned to draw even closer to his Maker. The more he read the Bible, the more he saw the undeniable vast discrepancies between the Catholic Church and the Word of God. So vast were they that Higgins ultimately left the Church.
Higgins longs to reach out to Catholics everywhere (including in the Philippines where God called him to preach more than a decade ago), and share the true Gospel with them, so they too can have eternal assurance through Christ Jesus, and Him alone! There is no other way!
While the stories Higgins writes all have different themes and take place in different settings, the one thread that links them all together is his heart for Jesus and for the lost. With that in mind, it is his wish that the Gospel message his stories convey will greatly challenge you not only to contemplate life this side of the grave, but on the other side as well.
Higgins is currently writing many other books, both fiction and non-fiction, including a sequel to “Coffee in Manila”, which will shine a bright, sobering spotlight on the diabolical human trafficking industry.
Enjoy reading…
To contact author for book signings, bulk discounts, or speaking engagements: patrick12272003@gmail.com.
