A Light In The Window

It is difficult to effectively develop characters and believable dialogue. Jan Karon excels at both. This is a great, enjoyable read!

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Letters From A Skeptic

Tackles the tough questions often glossed over in similar books. There is a good chance that your toughest questions are tackled here.

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At The Corner of Mundane and Grace

I was first introduced to Chris Fabry some years ago in his role as one of the hosts of the morning show on WMBI, Moody radio in Chicago. I greatly enjoyed listening to him then. Just as much as I enjoy reading him now. Buy Now!
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Featured Pages

A God-shaped Hole

Judge Match

God's Guarantee

Our Father Below Sucks Us In

Don't Cross the Cross

It is a gift to live where there is freedom to worship God. Pray for those who live where the church is persecuted.

"To me, America is strange. Each person acts as if his life begins and ends with himself." Li Quan p.148 Safely Home

Floor It!

Rick Richardson, Evangelism Outside The Box, New Ways To Help People Experience The Good News, Intervarsity Press, 2000, pp. 11, 12.
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Category: Evangelism
ISBN: 1578561175
Keywords: beach, sand castles, station wagon, mother, church, ministry, Jesus, God, Great Commission, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, InterVarsity Press, Richardson, Rick Richardson

"Each Friday in warm weather our moms drove the six kids an hour to the beach, where we spent the day building sand castles and wading in the waves ...

On one of our trips back home . . . the youngest girl, asked where Chris was. Chris was my youngest brother, three years old. He was a trickster, so we thought he must be hiding somewhere in the car. We looked under the beach blankets. We looked in the tire well, We searched the back of the car. No Chris. He must still be at the beach.

'Mom, Crhis isn't here,' I reported.

'Wha-a-a-a-t?" At that moment I began the ride of my life . . . she spun that big, ugly green station wagon in a 180-degree turn, tires screeching. Then she put the pedal to the metal. What had been a thirty-minute trip from the beach took us fifteen minutes going back. I think we hit a hundred miles per hour, and we only stayed that low because it was an old car and just couldn't go any faster.

At the beach we piled out and ran back through the archway and onto the sand. We ran from guard station to guard station. At the last one, my mother saw Chris and Chris saw my mother. They called out to each other. They ran toward each other. And then it was like a scene from a movie. My mom caught Chris in her arms and twirled him, hugging him, laughing and crying all at the same time.

Chris was lost. My mother braved the curves of North Carolina roads and (it felt like) risked all our lives to find him. But that passionate mother-love for her lost child is only a glimmer of the passion of God for those who are lost and don't know Jesus. He wants to turn the big, ugly green station wagon (maybe an appropriate analogy for our church or ministry!) around and race to wherever these lost and hurting people can be found. But he's letting us drive. We are at the steering wheel of the green station wagon. If we are happy with who is already in the car and who is not, we can continue on home singing our fun travel songs.

God is looking for station wagon drivers who will collaborate with him to reach the lost and to fulfill the Great Commission."

SoAmazing Review: Rick Richardson is the national field director of evangelism for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. In Evangelism Outside the Box he suggests new ways to reach those not found in our church pews.

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