Have you suffered deep losses or feel God has let you down? Some believers turn away from God or maintain a surface relationship. They are trapped in the spiritual ditch of God’s mystery.

Other believers think they know God so well they carry him around in their back pockets, so to speak. They pull him out like a lucky penny expecting him to respond to their bidding. They are comfortably settled into the spiritual ditch of knowing about God.

When we think we know God well, He may surprise us—often in ways we don’t like.  In the book Living Between the Ditches: When God Makes No Sense readers learn to embrace both aspects of God’s nature: We can know God; God is mystery.

Throughout the book the author tells the ?ctional story of 30-something’s Layton and Amy Brooks. Layton journeys from the ditch of knowing about God to the ditch of feeling deserted by God. Stuck between an unreliable God—who Layton thinks has taken away all that he’s known or cared about—or no God at all, Layton struggles with his ex-wife Amy, his young daughter’s upcoming surgery, his father’s death, and his mother’s illness. Layton entices readers to think about spiritual ditches in their lives.

You will examine your own views of God, understand how spiritual ditches hamper your spiritual progress, and determine to stay on the narrow road to God’s house, avoiding the ditches.

Over the course of life, most people find themselves at least once facing a point where there is no turning back. You face a decision to take a certain path, and you go all in. Sometimes you make the decision, but sometimes the decision is made for you.

 

Author Linda Martin’s point of no return came when cancer entered her life. In No Journey Back, she shares the story of her journey, which began with a diagnosis of third-stage thyroid cancer. She quickly realized she couldn’t go back to how things were before the cancer, so she moved on to learn more about herself and her family. Martin also discovered more about her relationship with God. Always an important part of her life, her relationship with Him deepened while she faced her disease.

 

Although No Journey Back is the story of Martin’s battle with cancer, it also shares the great things God has done for and with Martin. If you are facing your own difficult journey, you can find strength in Martin’s story and in the knowledge that He will not leave you to walk your path alone.

Over the course of life, most people find themselves at least once facing a point where there is no turning back. You face a decision to take a certain path, and you go all in. Sometimes you make the decision, but sometimes the decision is made for you.

 

Author Linda Martin’s point of no return came when cancer entered her life. In No Journey Back, she shares the story of her journey, which began with a diagnosis of third-stage thyroid cancer. She quickly realized she couldn’t go back to how things were before the cancer, so she moved on to learn more about herself and her family. Martin also discovered more about her relationship with God. Always an important part of her life, her relationship with Him deepened while she faced her disease.

 

Although No Journey Back is the story of Martin’s battle with cancer, it also shares the great things God has done for and with Martin. If you are facing your own difficult journey, you can find strength in Martin’s story and in the knowledge that He will not leave you to walk your path alone.

Christ sets us free, yet we are slaves of Christ. This spiritual paradox sounds contradictory. Can a freed person be a slave? Can a slave be free? Is this religious mumbo-jumbo? People have only two choices: we can be in bondage to self, sin, and the law, or we can serve Christ, who conquered self and sin and fulfilled the law. This understanding will help Christians deal with liberty in Christ as freedom to serve. The book interweaves the fictional story of a doctor convicted of a felony, imprisoned, and then transferred to a halfway house. Parker Sloan Hamilton learns what it means to be free in Christ and helps the reader explore the possibilities as well.

In Wake Up, author Peggy White Russ shares her experiences as a pastor’s wife—experiences that led to an intense spiritual unrest and subsequent loss of the vision she once had for the ministry. Peggy reveals how she began her pursuit of the heart of God through a lengthy fast that uncluttered her spirit and allowed her to become amazingly sensitive to God. Just days before Christmas in 2008, she heard a specific call from God: “Wake up, Peggy. Wake up.” When she answered this summons from God, she could clearly see the church stepping into the end times. Peggy shares the beginning of her in-depth research on end-time prophecy and some of the material she used to teach her class about the prophetic events happening in this era of time.

Wake Up reveals God’s love toward the seeking soul—lifting them from the rubble of trials and then enlisting them into His end-time army of triumphant, spiritually aware warriors. Follow Peggy down the path of her discontentment and trails to the mountaintop of spiritual awakening.

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Christ sets us free, yet we are slaves of Christ. This spiritual paradox sounds contradictory. Can a freed person be a slave? Can a slave be free? Is this religious mumbo-jumbo? People have only two choices: we can be in bondage to self, sin, and the law, or we can serve Christ, who conquered self and sin and fulfilled the law. This understanding will help Christians deal with liberty in Christ as freedom to serve. The book interweaves the fictional story of a doctor convicted of a felony, imprisoned, and then transferred to a halfway house. Parker Sloan Hamilton learns what it means to be free in Christ and helps the reader explore the possibilities as well.

Life is a series of decisions: What will I eat for dinner? Where will I go on vacation? Should I attend the football game on Friday? Will I attend college? Who will I marry? Life certainly has numerous offerings, and most involve some kind of decision-making process. In some cases, a single decision can change one’s entire life.

 

In his book, Stop! Read the Good News: Thirty-One Scriptures That Can Touch, Motivate, and Change Your Life, author Lou Slautterback demonstrates how his decision to come to Christ has had an immense effect on his life. With carefully selected Scripture passages, Slautterback encourages readers to think about their relationship with God. His STOP program seeks to aid readers in learning more about both God and his Word, so they will be able to make decisions that bring them closer to God.

 

The thirty-one selections in Stop! Read the Good News are intended to help each reader consider his or her personal relationship with the living God. They provide stepping-stones into the gospel message and the joy and peace one finds when living God’s way.