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Karen Spears Zacharias is a born storyteller, and that is why I want to commend to you her new book Where\u2019s Your Jesus Now?<\/a> $\"\"$ <\/em>. I became aware of Karen at our local Barnes & Noble when I happened one evening upon her book After the Flag Has Been Folded<\/a> $\"\"$ <\/em> (called \u201cHero Mama\u201d at that time). I picked it up, couldn\u2019t put it down, bought it and read most of it that weekend. (We met Karen and her brother Frank at an event in Seattle.) Karen\u2019s been through alot and I\u2019m glad she\u2019s got the journalist gift to record some of that \u201calot.\u201d (Here\u2019s the other part of the \u201c alot<\/a>\u201d that you should know.)
\nKaren\u2019s father died in Viet Nam when she was just a kid; the death of her father led to some family wrecks. She tells about this in After the Flag Has Been Folded<\/em> and I don\u2019t need to rehearse that story here.
\nThrough it all Karen became a Christian and I recognized that it in her truth-telling book and so I wrote her; she wrote back. And so I was thrilled when Zondervan chose to offer her a contract to publish her stuff. Hence Where\u2019s Your Jesus Now?<\/em> The title comes off with an edge, but it is a line clipped from the first chp \u2026 and some story it is.
\nI wonder if you ever had a confrontation like this one?
\nIt\u2019s a story of violence that she covered in Oregon. A young man, Eric, who had wanted to become a preacher eventually became obsessed with his own power and authority and made life unbearable for those who crossed his path. His girlfriend, Robin, got in on his act. She ended up pointing a gun at a woman, a Christian woman, and said, \u201cWhere\u2019s your Jesus now?\u201d Shirley said \u201cHe\u2019s right here.\u201d It all ends up in a police chase and the police shooting Eric dead. \u201cEric,\u201d Karen tells us, \u201cwent in search of a God of retribution, and he missed the God of redemption altogether.\u201d
\nThe chp ends with this: \u201cWhere should we go to put an end to all the wrongs and try to heal all that has happened?\u201d She answers: \u201cTo none other than the Jesus who wept at the gravesite.\u201d
\nThe theme of fear \u2014 from several angles \u2014 shapes this book. It\u2019s not an exposition of fear; it\u2019s stories about fear.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"