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***Purchase includes a free online course on faith***What do you do when your newfound faith is challenged by those closest to you?Peter Daniel Young is about to find out.Convinced he was called by the good Lord to train to be a minister, Peter is caught in a poetic downpour driving back home again-the last place he ever thought he would end up. But soon after returning to his hometown, he is caught in the tension of his traditional parents, who are relentless with their questions; a brother who's hit rock-bottom, and has walked away from the Church; new friends, who offer him welcomed support for his new spiritual direction; and a conservative professor, who challenges his beliefs at every turn.More troublesome yet: Peter begins to question whether the reimagined faith he carefully constructed to save his Christianity was what he needed in the first place - and he finds himself wondering whether there might be something more to the faith he left behind.Picking up the story immediately at the end of A Reimagined Faith, J. A. Bouma weaves a fresh, insightful spiritual story of resonance and truth to help a new generation wrestle through deep questions of faith, life, and everything in between. With shades of John Greene's coming of age novels, combines with the poignance and insight of C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity and John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, it is the book he wished he'd had and his parents had during his own crisis of faith.Whether you are facing your own faith crisis and wonder if Christianity is still relevant to your world, or you know of someone who is struggling themselves, discover along with Peter what why the old, old story of Jesus and his love still matters. For him, his family and friends, the Church - and for you.

**Purchase includes a free online course on faith***What do you do when the faith you've always known no longer makes sense?That's the haunting, confusing, unexpected question confronting twentysomething Peter Daniel Young after a friend doubts whether Christianity makes sense of life and has anything to offer. More troublesome yet: the right Christian answers Peter was trained to give since childhood are for questions no one is even asking-including his friend, and even himself.Which leaves him questioning what he's always believed - leading to a crisis of faith the likes of which he has never before experienced.While not abandoning his childhood faith, Peter launches into a journey of exploration and discovery, reimagining faith for his world and questioning what the essence of the Christian message is in the first place. Along the way, he is confronted by rising doubts, encouraged by friends new and old, questioned by those close to him, and challenged to own his faith for himself.What he discovers is all at once terrifying and thrilling - for this story is the drama of his faith's death and rebirth.Written in the self-discovery style of John Green's coming of age stories, with shades of such classics as C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity and John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, J. A. Bouma's tale is the first story in a fresh, insightful spiritual coming of age series for a new generation wondering if the Christianity they've always known still matters in these dynamic times - and whether there might be something more to help make sense of life. Drawing from his own spiritual journey as a young adult, Bouma writes a stirring fable of resonance and truth for those wrestling with deep questions of faith, life, and everything in between.Whether you are facing your own crisis of faith and wondering whether Christianity still matters, or you know someone who is struggling themselves, discover along with Peter what the Christian message means for him, his family and friends, his life in the Church - and for you.