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Winner, The Man Booker Prize, 2015 Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters - assassins, journalists, drug dealers, and even ghosts - A Brief History of Seven Killings is the fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time and its bloody aftermath, from the streets and slums of Kingston in the 1970s, to the crack wars in 1980s New York, to a radically altered Jamaica in the 1990s.

Fire seems to require a “friend or foe” screening, doesn’t it? Let’s be honest, the flames that warm can equally harm. Maybe you have the same dilemma getting close to God, the one described in scripture as “the all-consuming fire”? Is he friend or foe? Would you run to him or from him? But what if God really is trustworthy? What if, up close to the fire of his love, he warms your heart and shapes your life for the wonder and purpose always meant for you? Isn’t that a fire worth running to and a forge worth entering?

Every day and everywhere, everyone can live a powerful life of Kingdom impact, Jesus-style! One ordinary life making a powerful difference - that's God's amazing 'Plan A' on display. Using real-life, riveting stories and a contemporary scriptural lens, Dwight Robertson shows how God's exciting kingdom-building plan takes life - literally - in ordinary individuals.