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  • Curveball

  • When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
  • By: Peter Enns
  • Narrated by: Peter Enns
  • Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)

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Curveball

By: Peter Enns
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Summary

“Peter Enns is brilliant at taking the big topics, those Christian ideas that usually scare us or intimidate us or worry us, and then make those very places a meeting place with a God who is bigger and wilder and more wonderful and trustworthy than we ever could have guessed.”—Sarah Bessey, author of Out of Sorts and Jesus Feminist

The author of How the Bible Actually Works and The Bible Tells Me So explains how our model of God and faith must evolve as our understanding of the world deepens—just as the Bible describes it should.

Life throws us “curve balls”—from devastating personal losses to world tragedies. These events often leave us doubting God, the Bible, and our faith. But instead of pushing away our reservations, we should embrace them, Peter Enns argues. A leading biblical scholar and Christian mentor, Enns has never been afraid to question the Bible or Christian beliefs. Such thoughtful inquisitiveness, he argues, is part of God’s plan. He wants us to question, because doing so actually leads to a stronger, lasting faith.

By reframing how we see these events, we allow ourselves to see how the Bible itself showcases this very process and that “treating curve balls as the enemy” is not only counterproductive but thwarts God’s goal of helping us become mature and wise. Enns shares a number of curve balls he’s encountered in his own life and the questions he has pondered. Does God care about the millions of people who never heard the gospel? Could I relate to a God who has created a universe this big? If God is so relatable, constant, and caring, how do we explain quantum physics? He reveals how particular biblical passages have helped him find wisdom, and how they can do the same for us.

As Curveball persuasively shows, God is bigger and more mysterious than anyone’s expectations. We need a faith that can grow just as deeply.

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©2023 Peter Enns (P)2023 HarperCollins Publishers
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Fantastic book! Defo listen to it

A great book, one of my favourites, highly highly recommended to anyone, great perspectives on how to this about Christian faith in the 21st century, very engaging and quite funny too, not at all boring haha

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So helpful to hear

The way that Pete Enns talks about adjusting our faith being a good part of the journey, and the way he talks about God being out ahead of us and out ahead of the Bible really resonated with me. It has helped to ground me in a deeper faith instead of losing it because it just didn't make sense any more. Thank you.

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Some great points.

I found some brilliant light-bulb moments in this book, especially towards the end where Peter talks about his family.

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