From Intervarsity's website describing this book "...explore how God works through imperfect characters such as Jonah, Martha, and Peter. God loves, redeems, and restores misfits, outsiders, and failures."
"The Lord doesn't place us on the team just so we can sit on the bench. He intends to send us into the game. It is grace that calls us to salvation, and it is His will that sends us into the world to witness for Him." John MacArthur
"The Lord Jesus hears every prayer that is prayed to Him in earnest. The least prayer of a little child on earth is loud enough to be heard clearly in heaven above." J.C. Ryle
"Reader, whoever you may be, I exhort you never to be satisfied with anything short of a full assurance of your own salvation. With faith, no doubt, you must begin, -with simple, child-like faith: 'Belive on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.' But from faith go on to assurance. Rest not till you can say, "I know…
"Personally, I also bear witness that it has been to me, in seasons of great pain, superlatively comfortable to know that in every pang which racks his people the Lord Jesus has a fellow-feeling. We are not alone, for one like unto the Son of man walks the furnace with us."- Charles H. Spurgeon
