I guess this is where I should introduce myself. I am a pastor / writer / husband of Tracy for 14 years / dad to Noah, Seth and Emma / and the one ring that rules them all so to speak is that I am a follower of Jesus. I would say I am a Christian, but that word can bring a lot of unfortunate baggage with it, so, let’s just say an apprentice of Jesus.
I have just written my first book / Should We Fire God? which will be coming out 4.8.10 / and am excited and nervous about it all at the same time.
I am a skeptic / a questioner / and a recovering cynic. I am always seeking to understand better how to walk out my faith in Jesus day to day / to show what I believe to be true about our amazing world and not just say it or write it. Some days I think I nail it / others it seems to just nail me.
I am aware that I am a thirty-something / middle-class / white / guy and am constantly trying to see what in our world that allows me to see clearly / and what that can easily blind me to
When I look at the world there are time when I feel like I can almost see it the way that God would have it be / and others where the pain that people in our broken world face almost feels suffocating
I realize I am still fairly young / but I have seen enough to know that what I have experienced with God is real / and one of the greatest desires I have is for people to know that God feels toward them the same way he feels toward me.
“This book affected me deeply. It’s one of the greatest treatises I’ve ever read on life’s deepest questions about God and the whys in life. I think the Lord has produced a classic through Jim Pace. It will be read and studied by skeptics and seminarians, peasants and presidents. Very few have written so well what so many have wondered when it comes to God and suffering.”
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