Lumberjack Jesus: How to Develop Faith Despite Pitfalls, Roadblocks, Stupidity, and Prejudice

Insightful and uplifting, Lumberjack Jesus reminds us all that we need and deserve unconditional love. In a series of spiritual essays written in memoir form, Bruce Kirkpatrick shows us a God who is loving, a good conversationalist, and often looks like a lumberjack. God comes alive in these pages in everyday life—in stories about Vietnam heroes, cowboy movies, wrestling matches and chemistry sets. Bruce Kirkpatrick discovered that as he was consumed by anger, shame and guilt—quite literally dying on the inside—Jesus came to him, looking like a lumberjack, in a red plaid shirt and a short-cropped beard. Even as he pushed Jesus far away and with such belligerence that reconciliation seemed impossible, Jesus was always there. Bruce learned the love of Jesus is not just for caring Christians who never falter or fail at life. If Jesus can love and accept an uncaring, self-centered, lustful dope like Bruce, he can do the same for you. Nobody is beyond his reach or his hand. In a unique and introspective style, these Christian Non-fiction stories will help you see faith in almost every circumstance in your life. This book also contains unique prayers written by Bruce Kirkpatrick and hand-picked scripture.

Biographies & Memoirs

Kirkpatrick, Bruce

Leaders & Notable People

Written Dreams Publishing

Insightful and uplifting, Lumberjack Jesus reminds us all that we need and deserve unconditional love. In a series of essays written in memoir form, Bruce Kirkpatrick shows us a God who is loving, a good conversationalist, and often looks like a lumberjack. God comes alive in these pages in everyday life—in stories about Vietnam heroes, cowboy movies, wrestling matches and chemistry sets. Bruce Kirkpatrick discovered that as he was consumed by anger, shame and guilt—quite literally dying on the inside—Jesus came to him, looking like a lumberjack, in a red plaid shirt and a short-cropped beard. Even as he pushed Jesus far away and with such belligerence that reconciliation seemed impossible, Jesus was always there. Bruce learned the love of Jesus is not just for caring Christians who never falter or fail at life. If Jesus can love and accept an uncaring, self-centered, lustful dope like Bruce, he can do the same for you. Nobody is beyond his reach or his hand. In a unique and introspective style, these Christian Non-fiction stories will help you see faith in almost every circumstance in your life. This book also contains unique prayers written by Bruce Kirkpatrick and hand-picked scripture.

Hard Left is the coming-of-age story of Cody Calhoun. A typical teenager growing up in Northern California, Cody likes music, athletics, friends and girls. But fate enters his life in the form of Mitchell Burke, a hard-driving physical therapist who introduces Cody to amateur bicycling racing. As he is drawn into this fast-paced, demanding world, Cody is swept along for the ride of his life. Filled with adventure, romance, intrigue and a little danger, Hard Left is a story about trusting yourself to pursue your dreams - no matter where that road may take you.

Hard Left

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

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Running his own high tech PR and ad agency in San Francisco provides Johnny Roe most of the passion and love in his life. But when his wife and two kids are killed in an auto accident, Johnny loses his drive for business--and life. An odd encounter with his sister-in-law at the funeral predicts even more trouble.
Needing to escape his grief, he loads his son's dog Buster in his Jeep and heads east, aimlessly looking for release. Johnny randomly stops in Booneville, Iowa, where he meets Doc Enbright, a retired medical doctor concerned with the secretive reason the town's main employer seems to be sabotaging its own business.
Gradually Johnny's drawn into the dilemma of U.S. Johnson Controls, a manufacturer of high tech robotics, whose business is failing despite cutting edge technology.
On a bicycle ride in the country, Johnny is mysteriously run off the road and winds up in the local hospital under the care of Emmy Brownell, a 31 year-old nurse, whose life has taken a lonely turn. Her parents have moved away and she recently broke off her engagement. Now she finds herself using her artistic talent only to paint portraits of women in despair. 
Can Johnny purge the darkness of grief and despair and find a new business identity? Can a budding romance with Emmy survive his anger and reluctance to start to love again? Or will the failing robotics company, surrounded by dishonesty and deceit, destroy everything in its path?

The Resurrection of Johnny Roe

Genre Fiction

Bruce Kirkpatrick

The Carnival Chemist offers a powerful collection of stories taken from everyday life and features people who could be your family and friends-or you. Strong, but troubled characters face a range of life and death challenges as they struggle to clarify their beliefs and survive: <ul> <li>Intertwined lives careening off course.</li> <li>People in broken relationships clinging to lifelines of hope.</li> <li>Unique and sometimes startling human-and divine-connections searching for honesty and enlightenment.</li> </ul> Readers will lose themselves in familiar themes of adults caught in traps of their own making as they look for escape routes and discover that love can outweigh and outlast everything. Get a glimpse of unforgettable historical heroes, like Jesus and Lazarus, like you've never imagined them before. And the magically adorned Carnival Chemist mixes potions of wisdom and hope for heart-warming and life-changing solutions.

The Carnival Chemist and Other Stories

Raising God's Gen Z Teen: 33 Strategies to Teach Teenagers Self-Reliance, Confidence and Responsibility is a step-by-step how-to book for parents who want to raise independent, caring teenagers who grow to be responsible and contributing adults. More than self-esteem, teens need humor, empathy, adventure, thankfulness, passion, a vision of their successful future-and an ear for God. Steeped with Biblical truths-and other disciplines including leadership, teamwork, and goal-setting-parents are introduced to 33 strategies that ground their kids in self-confidence, reliability and responsibility-able to thrive in today's world.

Raising God's Gen Z Teen: 33 Strategies to Teach Teenagers Self-Reliance, Confidence, and Responsibility (Lumberjack Jesus)

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

Cincinnati baker Paul Whiteside is a good man. He owns his own business, volunteers, tithes at church, and has just meet a nice girl. Still, he wonders if there is more to life, something meaningful, something to fill the empty place in his heart (soul? spirit?). When he picks up a brochure after church one Sunday, he is compelled to accept the challenge--The Experience of Becoming Poor. He embarks on a thirty-day pilgrimage to live and work with the people of Haiti to figure out if God is calling him for a bigger purpose. Paul is torn between his life of comfort and privilege and a driving need to contribute something more to the world. To make the right decision, he will have to embrace humility, discomfort, and the unknown. Fortunately, Paul will not have to rely solely on his own strength and faith. He is accompanied on his journey to self-discovery and destiny by a group of strangers who become friends, one of whom has the potential to change his life. Mirlande Baptiste's cynical attitude and haughty pride have been shaped by her Haitian heritage, a legacy of turmoil and power struggles. Committed to the homeless children at the mission where she serves and fiercely proud of her native birthright, Mirlande is tortured by a secret desire to flee the brutal realities of life in Haiti. When Paul turns to Mirlande to gain an authentic understanding of Haiti's culture, a tenuous friendship develops. She is forced to confront her own truth and bias which ultimately forces her to choose between duty to a country that desperately needs her and a man whose love could save her. Anyone But Me dives deep into the history and traditions of Haiti that have led to a country on the brink. And it's the love story of two people caught in one of Haiti's most tumultuous and devastating eras. Book Club discussion questions and prompts included.

Anyone But Me

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Lumberjack Jesus: How to Develop Faith Despite Pitfalls, Roadblocks, Stupidity, and Prejudice

Lumberjack Jesus: How to Develop Faith Despite Pitfalls, Roadblocks, Stupidity, and Prejudice

Hard Left

The Resurrection of Johnny Roe

The Carnival Chemist and Other Stories

Raising God's Gen Z Teen: 33 Strategies to Teach Teenagers Self-Reliance, Confidence, and Responsibility (Lumberjack Jesus)

Anyone But Me