Clayton King
Autor von Stronger: How Hard Times Reveal God's Greatest Power
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Clayton King is founder and president of Clayton King Ministries and Crossroads Missions and Summer Camps, professor of evangelism at Anderson University, and teaching pastor at NewSpring Church. The author of more than a dozen books, including Stronger and Overcome, King regularly speaks to mehr anzeigen hundreds of thousands of people all over the globe. He and his wife, Shane, are winners of the Young Adult Book of the Year Award from the Christian Retailer's Association for True love Project. They have two sons and live in South Carolina. weniger anzeigen
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His mother died unexpectedly after being rushed to emergency. She had a secret addiction to prescription drugs. King’s father was in the later stages of diabetes, undergoing dialysis three times a week. King was not there when either of his parents past away. He was stuck in Toronto, Canada, unable to get a flight home when his mother died. He left his dad’s side to attend an awards ceremony for his kid when his father passed away. King shares about his pain, regret, and feelings of brokenness. His parent’s deaths also opens up other wounds (like his grandfather’s abandonment of his father).
However this book is not about wallowing. King wants us to see how God uses hard times, pain and moments of weakness to further our transformation, “Sometimes God will remove the weakness and sometimes he will redeem the weakness, but he will never waste your weakness” (18). King shares about where God met him, blessed him amidst brokenness, taught him humility and redeemed the pain. In the middle of his grief, God’s spirit was present with him, he was able to experience God’s grace and forgiveness in a vulnerable time.
This would be a good book for anyone facing hard times (which is all of us, at some time). King is personal and vulnerable. While saying to someone in a crisis, “God works out all things according to his pleasure” is trite, when someone shares that truth through their experience, it is a more apt word. That being said, those in raw grief probably aren’t ready to read a book like this quite yet. Still I give this four stars.
Note: I received this book from Baker Books in exchange for my honest review.… (mehr)