Liars, Cowards, Quitters & Me

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Allen’s New Book

Liars, Cowards, Quitters & Me

The people in these pages are not stained-glass figures. They are not monuments to be admired from a careful distance. Many of them are liars. Some are cowards. A few simply quit. All of them were chosen and used by God anyway. Liars, Cowards, Quitters & Me: God’s Unlikely Recruits looks at twelve biblical lives that don’t fit the flannel-board version — and pairs each one with a story from the author’s own. The writing is honest, often funny, and never once preachy.

Allen Reding doesn’t teach these stories the way Sunday school taught them. He finds the hidden mechanism inside each one — the staircase that connects an ancient life to the one you’re living now. Noah staring at blueprints he couldn’t possibly execute. Moses arguing with God while already holding the equipment for the job. Elijah collapsing under a tree one day after the greatest victory of his life. If you’ve ever disqualified yourself from God’s purposes, this book was written for you.

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