The
Promised
Land
How Doing Your Homework in Your Wilderness Leads to Healthy, Lasting Relationships
Susan Sperling Brock
Copyright 2022 by Susan Sperling Brock
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TITLE INFORMATION
THE PROMISED LAND
How Doing Your Homework in Your Wilderness Leads to Healthy, Lasting Relationships
Susan Sperling Brock Westbow Press (244 pp.)
$23.99 hardcover, $11.40 paperback, $2.99 e-book ISBN: 978-1-948962-31-5; November 25, 2014
BOOK REVIEW
A writer combines a Christian memoir and a guide for coping with the trials and disappointments of life.
In this debut nonfiction book, Brock draws on her own troubled pastthe early death of her father, a family history of unhappy marriages and divorces, and the threat of childhood sexual molestation while she was growing up in Waco, Texas, in the 1960sto ground her thoughts on the role of faith and perseverance in the Christian doctrine of salvation. Even at the age of 5, she faced three incidents of abuse and didnt feel she could trust anyone. The author eventually joined the Dallas Police Department as a civilian worker; then took a job at the Post Office; married; separated from her husband; and, along the way, was born again in her Christian faith. Each chapter of her work deals with a different aspect of her spiritual journey and thoughts, from Pauline concepts of holiness to the realization of grace to an intriguing meditation on the biblical account of God resting on the seventh day of Creation. God wants us to be resting while working!, the author relates. So its not a seventh-day issue, its a twenty-four-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week resting in God while He rests in us! God, Brock writes in her heartfelt book, has not given his followers the spirit of fear but rather of power and love; Christians who are born again discover the essential humility at the heart of the faith experience. At our conversion, it is the realization that we cannot do anything to bring about salvation, as it is a gift of God, she asserts. As we identify with Christ, it is the realization that we cannot bring about death to the self; only God can. Each chapter ends with a HOMEWORK series of useful discussion questions. The authors personal stories can sometimes be as fanciful as those found in most faith memoirsGod leads her to a shop with a particular piano she wants to buy; he helps her get a night-shift job at the Post Office. But the major tone of leaning on faith in times of adversity skillfully carries the volume.
An engaging life story about finding emotional healing through Christianity.
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Title: The Promised Land: How Doing Your Homework in Your Wilderness Leads to Healthy, Lasting Relationships
Author: Susan Sperling Brock Publisher: Toplink Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 978-1948962308
Pages:
Genre: Religion and Spirituality
Reviewed by: Liz Konkel
Pacific Book Review
The Promised Land is a Bible Study guide with advice from the personal experiences of author Susan Sperling Brock. With recounts of the fear, pain, and struggles of her childhood and adulthood, she explores the eventual understanding and peace she found in Christ. Starting from what she calls the three Ds ( her parents divorce, her fathers death, and moving to Dallas, Texas), Brock explores her personal relationships and how her search for Christ came to reflect in those relationships. Throughout the book, a psychological background is present to aid biblical verses with homework to lead others on their own journeys to live their most peaceful and fulfilled lives.
A key component of this guide is the memoir elements, as Brocks personal experiences back up her advice and her emotional journey to have a relationship with Christ allows for a chance to get to know her. The struggle she experienced as a child, dealing with fear and loss through the divorce of her parents, the death of her father, and the move to a new home, creates an idea of the background she came from and the person she was in the beginning. She came from a background that didnt include church, so she places emphasizes on the fact that an individual doesnt have to grow up in church in order to find Christ. Most of her advice stems from her experience, primarily through her own difficult marriage and divorce. Brock is open about her struggles and in doing so, is able to reach a wide range of readers, connecting with them through her honest and empathetic voice. Her advice is without judgment and is shared with understanding, which will make it easy for those dealing with heartache, divorce, and other serious issues to find strength in this guide and a path to finding Christ.
This bible study is well organized with concise and clear writing. Each chapter contains personal reflection, advice, biblical context and explanation, and ends with homework in the form of questions which allow for a chance to think and reflect on your own life.
Brocks words often provide inspiration to not just find your better self, but to find a life of solace that can come even after a time of pain or struggle. A large focus is put on relationships with others and the working of Christ in those relationships which Brock explores through first learning to identify with Christ. Personal relationships are used as examples throughout, going from her relationship with her family, to the one she had with her ex-husband, to friendships within the church, to her husband.
This path to God is highlighted explaining what holiness means, how to understand sin, and what the Promised Land is. Brock not only explores faith, but answers questions in a way which speaks to the reader as a person. What stands out most about this Bible Study is how it strives to show how Christ has allowed her to find love in herself, and provides the most solace to those dealing with divorce. The Promised Land explores the search for God in a personal journey of faith that the author uses to lead others into a journey of discovery into the faith and promise of The Promised Land.
How Doing Your Homework in Your Wilderness Leads to Healthy, Lasting Relationship
Susan Sperling Brock
Contents
- Gods Assertiveness Training Par t I
Identifying the Source of the Drama - Gods Assertiveness Training Part II
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