I typically don’t read a lot of fiction, and when I do it’s typically before bed (gotta love bedtime stories). Recently I read an incredible fiction book called A Lineage of Grace by Francine Rivers which dramatizes the lives of the five women mentioned in the lineage of Jesus—Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba, and Mary.
Granted, these stories are fiction, but Francine Rivers used what we have recorded in Scripture and historical research of the culture and that time period in history, to craft a story that allows you to experience the human elements of emotion we often forget or skip over. These women, and the men in her similar book on five men called Sons of Encouragement, were like us—facing struggles, pain, emotions, hopes, fears, and the desire to know God.
While we must remember these stories are not Scripture, it breathed a freshness into some of my favorite characters in the Bible. And I’d love for you to experience it as well—so I am giving away the choice of either A Lineage of Grace or Sons of Encouragement to five members of the deeperChristian community!
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December 2017 Winners!
Congratulations to the following individuals who won a copy of the Deeper Christian edition of EM Bounds’ incredible book on prayer, Power Through Prayer.
- Mike Miller
- Charles Handren
- Jim DesRosiers
- Krista Gross
- Keishla Degro Valladares
- Bob Sutherland
- Janice Krueger
- Derek Wise
- Matthew Lebrato
- Adam Richardson
- Samuel Hofer