Life was good. Kasey Van
Norman felt her sense of purpose and calling in ministry to encourage women
during personal crisis and pursued it.
Just as her ministry was growing to new heights, in a moment, it all was
shaken. It started with an ache in her
back. It ended up being cancer.
While chronicling her journey with cancer, Kasey speaks to women
who feel like God has “picked a fight” with them in her book Raw Faith. She alternates between her story and Bible
stories to show how God is working now like He did then. Her goal in the book is not to tell her
story, but to encourage her reader to know God and trust Him regardless of our
circumstances.
I would have loved to have read more about her raw emotion and her
journey in wrestling with God rather than her attempt to weave in Bible stories
and surficial Sunday School lessons. However, her objective was not to write a memoir, but to show that real faith is raw faith. Real faith isn’t grounded in
circumstances, but rather, is “built
on the bedrock that God is who he says he is…”
She accomplishes this well for
any woman who may be enduring any type of personal crisis, not just cancer.
I received a complimentary
copy of this book from Tyndale House Publishers in exchange for my honest
review.
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