Bøger af Bruce Kirkpatrick

Insightful and uplifting, Lumberjack Jesus reminds us all that we need and deserve unconditional love. In a series of 28 essays, Bruce Kirkpatrick discovers a loving God who is a good conversationalist and often appears as a lumberjack. God comes alive in these pages in everyday life-in stories about Vietnam, rock concerts, bicycle rides and chemistry sets. Bruce discovered that as he was consumed by anger, shame and guilt-quite literally dying on the inside-Jesus came to him, looking like a lumberjack in a red flannel shirt and short-cropped beard. Even as he pushed Jesus far away and with such belligerence that reconciliation seemed impossible, Jesus was always there. Bruce learned that the love of Jesus is not just for caring Christians who never falter or fail at life. If Jesus can love and accept an uncaring, self-centered, lustful dope like Bruce, he can do the same for you. Nobody is beyond his reach or his love. In a unique and introspective style, these stories will help you see faith in almost every circumstance in life. Now with group discussion questions perfect for Bible studies or daily devotionals.

Running his own high tech PR and ad agency in San Francisco provides Johnny Roe most of the passion and love in his life. But when his wife and two kids are killed in an auto accident, Johnny loses his drive for business--and life. An odd encounter with his sister-in-law at the funeral predicts even more trouble.Needing to escape his grief, he loads his son's dog Buster in his Jeep and heads east, aimlessly looking for release. Johnny randomly stops in Booneville, Iowa, where he meets Doc Enbright, a retired medical doctor concerned with the secretive reason the town's main employer seems to be sabotaging its own business.Gradually Johnny's drawn into the dilemma of U.S. Johnson Controls, a manufacturer of high tech robotics, whose business is failing despite cutting edge technology.On a bicycle ride in the country, Johnny is mysteriously run off the road and winds up in the local hospital under the care of Emmy Brownell, a 31 year-old nurse, whose life has taken a lonely turn. Her parents have moved away and she recently broke off her engagement. Now she finds herself using her artistic talent only to paint portraits of women in despair. Can Johnny purge the darkness of grief and despair and find a new business identity? Can a budding romance with Emmy survive his anger and reluctance to start to love again? Or will the failing robotics company, surrounded by dishonesty and deceit, destroy everything in its path?