Kristi Muszik “Turning Sorrow into Joy”
by Kent Christmas
My Review –
I wanted to read this book as soon as I saw it came out. I knew Kent’s mother in the early 2000s as we went to a little church together. When I went to put the book in my shopping cart to buy for later, I looked at the Kindle sample – if you know me, you will see that I dislike Kindle editions as I like having a live book in my hand to feel and smell and read from its pages. Well, as I was reading the Kindle sample, I couldn’t stop reading it, so I ended up purchasing the Kindle book and reading it in a couple of days.
This book spoke to my heart. I could relate to the things he went through. It also grabbed me because we both lived in Washington state in the same areas, and I could relate to the locations.
This book is a powerful testament to the importance of faith and character development. It teaches us that by staying faithful to God and diligently working on our character, we can begin to understand and fulfill God’s purpose for our lives. It reminds us that rushing to fulfill our God-given purpose without developing our character can lead to a less-than-desirable outcome.
We should want to start and end well, not rely on the annoying in our lives, but be in total surrender, rely on God working with him shoulder to shoulder, and wait until God says our character is developed to step out.
Get this book and glean from his raw transparency.
About the book by Amazon
Rejected. Broke. Unsuccessful. These are not words one associate with a pastor whose church has more than 3,000 members and whose services and podcast are viewed online by more than 200,000 people in nearly 100 nations each week. But Pastor Kent Christmas has lived these words. Jobless, near penniless, and nearly killed, on more than one occasion . . . yet ever laboring to become all that God would have him to be. This was Kent’s story.
But God . . .
God uses broken people with broken hearts and lives to bring healing and salvation to a broken world. In Turning Sorrow Into Joy, you will learn how God took Kent from floundering small-town preacher to world-renowned pastor, from brokenness to healing, from adversity to blessing, and from despair to victory. For Kent, God truly did restore the years that the locust had eaten (Joel 2:25).
Are you struggling to fulfill what you believe to be God’s purpose for your life but can’t seem to gain any traction? Is your story one of heartache, betrayal, rejection, and struggle, and you fear that your past will be your future? Kent Christmas has been there, yet he triumphed against all odds.
And so can you.
Kent’s story didn’t end where it began. Read it and be encouraged. God has a plan for you. He will fulfill it in His time.
Disclaimer: At this time. I do not benefit in any monetary way by recommending these resources to you. I want to share every resource I recommend with family and friends.
