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Customer Reviews for B & H Publishing Group The Insanity of God: A True Story of Faith Resurrected
B & H Publishing Group The Insanity of God: A True Story of Faith Resurrected
How far would your faith take you? Would it take you to another continent to help desperate people? Would you still be able to serve them after the sudden death of your child?
For Nik and Ruth Ripken the answer to all these questions is yes. For years the Ripken family has ministered in the Muslim world, primarily in the Middle East and North Africa. The Insanity of God tells the story of their remarkable journey. They've seen unspeakable evil in Somalia when four of their best friends and Christian converts were killed by radical Muslims, and when their sixteen-year-old son Timothy died suddenly from a severe asthma attack in Kenya. Despite these heartbreaking circumstances, their faith has survived as they learned from the persecuted people they came to serve.
The Insanity of God asks many difficult questions. Questions that are especially difficult for the average American to come to terms with. Yet the Ripken family, along with millions of other persecuted Christians around the world have decided to follow Christ regardless of the personal danger, because they know who Jesus was and is. And that makes all the difference.
For Nik and Ruth Ripken the answer to all these questions is yes. For years the Ripken family has ministered in the Muslim world, primarily in the Middle East and North Africa. The Insanity of God tells the story of their remarkable journey. They've seen unspeakable evil in Somalia when four of their best friends and Christian converts were killed by radical Muslims, and when their sixteen-year-old son Timothy died suddenly from a severe asthma attack in Kenya. Despite these heartbreaking circumstances, their faith has survived as they learned from the persecuted people they came to serve.
The Insanity of God asks many difficult questions. Questions that are especially difficult for the average American to come to terms with. Yet the Ripken family, along with millions of other persecuted Christians around the world have decided to follow Christ regardless of the personal danger, because they know who Jesus was and is. And that makes all the difference.
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Date:April 23, 2013
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Location:Burlington, IA
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"The Insanity of God" is one of the best books I have ever read! I enjoyed the author's testimony of faith and how he met his wife. The book moves slowly as he shares how he got involved in the ministry. Through an interesting set of circumstances, he began interviewing persecuted Christians. To hear the stories of faith that's under fire should encourage the heart of every believer. One has to wonder if the persecuted church in other countries will one day also be the persecuted church in America. This book could easily be described as picking up where the book of Acts left off. The early church faced heavy persecution and the church today is facing heavy persecution. You can't read this book and remain the same. This book will compel you to pray more for the persecuted church and remember their bonds!
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Review 2 for The Insanity of God: A True Story of Faith Resurrected
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One of the best books of the year.
Date:April 19, 2013
To His Glory
Location:Berryville AR
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A must read for every church! As a pastor I highly recommend it. Nik not only encourages us with what God is doing around the world but also challenges us to get involved.
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Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date:April 16, 2013
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An absolute must read! This is the best example of how God has been moving and continues to move people forward toward his son. His ability to establish house churces in the East, Far East, Communist and socialist countries is amazing. He is doing it in visions and dreams sent to Muslims and other non believers all over the world. Praise God and thank you Rik Ripkin for your love of God and the suffering masses in your missionary work.
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very worthwhile.
Date:March 18, 2013
pudge
Location:Kalispell, MT
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This book clearly and humbly, explained the value of faith in Jesus and the glory and joy that results from the trials of our brothers and sisters in the faith. We take our freedom to worship casually, seldom thinking what our forefathers and fellow believers have endured and are continuing to endure for their faith.
Risking their life in order to share the good news of Jesus is of vital importance to these dear Christians. It is unique to read a book of this subject and yet come away with an uplifted spirit and perhaps even envy for these believers.
Risking their life in order to share the good news of Jesus is of vital importance to these dear Christians. It is unique to read a book of this subject and yet come away with an uplifted spirit and perhaps even envy for these believers.
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Review 5 for The Insanity of God: A True Story of Faith Resurrected
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Destined to become a missions classic!
Date:February 19, 2013
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First, I need to alert the reader that I personally know the author behind the pseudonym, “Nik Ripken”. I’ve attended conferences he’s led on the persecuted church. I’ve met his wife. I actually went to seminary with his brother-in-law. I once even enjoyed a leisurely breakfast on the rooftop terrace of his home in east Africa. I first heard about Nik Ripken some ten years ago at a training conference for strategy coordinators led by representatives of the International Mission Board of the SBC. At an isolated conference center in the Oxfordshire countryside west of London, I listened in amazement to accounts of his research on the persecuted church. I was part of a select group of mission strategists privileged to actually read his report—a document so explosive—so sensitive in nature—that even now I dare not list its title in this review. And I have long been frustrated that those amazing stories of faith persevering and thriving in the teeth of brutal persecution could not be publically shared for fear of adding to the suffering of God’s people. The Insanity of God has finally relieved some of that frustration.
Nik Ripken conducted the most important and comprehensive research on the persecuted church ever attempted in 2,000 years of Christian history. Decades from now, when it is finally safe to publish that research in its entirety, future generation will place it alongside other mission classics such as the Journal of William Carey and Roland Allen’s Missionary Methods: St. Paul’s or Ours? It will be required reading in seminaries. Missionary candidates will comb its pages for wisdom as they develop strategies for evangelizing the unreached. Until then, if you are not one of the few included in that very limited “need to know” group, may I heartily recommend The Insanity of God.
In its pages the author shares some of the more poignant stories of faith under persecution that were a part of his original research. To do this he has had to change names and some other identifying details in order to protect those involved from needless reprisals. In one particular case I happened to know the story told in considerable detail, so I can personally vouch for the fact that the thrust of what is told in The Insanity of God is absolutely accurate. And believe me, there is no exaggeration in these pages. What made it into print is an understatement of what actually happened. The full story is even more incredible than what you will read.
Even though I had studied the original research, I learned a great deal reading The Insanity of God. It was especially revealing about the background of Nik Ripken. This gave me a fuller appreciation of his life and work. Nik is not a physically imposing guy. He seems altogether ordinary when you meet him. But appearances can deceive. We’re talking Mr. Rogers here: with the valor and audacity of a Navy SEAL.
Reading that original research was an emotionally and spiritually shattering experience for me. Reading The Insanity of God will similarly affect you. It will inspire, horrify, and convict you. You will be amazed by what God is doing in some of the toughest mission fields on earth. You will be shaken by the relentlessness of the enemy. You will be moved to tears—both of sorrow and of joy. It will strengthen your faith. And it will shame you for the shallowness of your own discipleship when confronted by the incredible sacrifices of believers in these places of persecution. And just maybe—and I know this is the desire of the author—it will persuade you that the life of a missionary, be it on the other side of the street or on the other side of the world, is the life you need to be living. This is a dangerous book to read. Approach with caution.
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