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Each chapter is a one word title beginning with the prefix “Re.” Chapters such as Reconciliation, Redemption, and Revival use real life examples to show how God gives us a second chance to deepen our lives of faith.
Praise for The God of Second Chances
Joseph C. Hough Jr. President, Union Theological Seminary
"Kolbell has done it again! In the God of Second Chances he combines his gift for storytelling, keen observations of our human condition, and deep personal understanding of the Gospel to convey to his readers the reality of divine forgiveness. Powerful. "
Publisher’s Weekly This penetrating miscellany of meditations on the dialogue between human limitations and divine grace successfully blends inspiration with practicality, the therapeutic with the theological. A writer, psychotherapist and former minister at New York's Riverside Church, Kolbell asserts that in a contemporary climate of incivility, religious intolerance, poverty and war, we could use a “second chance” more than ever. It is in this context that he mines the Latin prefix “re,” or returning, to explore the scriptural foundations and modern applications of words like reconciliation, reflection, retreat and restoration. Weaving his encounters with friends and patients into his reflections on Old and New Testament figures like Moses and Nicodemus, the author manages to strike a tone both realistic and encouraging—no mean feat. While there is little that would be offensive to conservative readers, the book is more likely to appeal to those who share Kolbell's passion for social change and his conviction that modern believers urgently need to align their wills with the God who keeps forgiving them and inviting them to try again.
Library Journal
The God of Second Chances is "a book that is full of hope and help."
