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Heroes and Monsters

An Honest Look at the Struggle within All of Us

by Josh James Riebock

  • Paperback
  • 304 pages
  • Publisher: Baker
  • 13.8 x 21.4 x 2.1 cm

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Every one of us is both a hero and a monster, and the world we inhabit is both beautiful and twisted. We are shaken by changes, losses, gains, insights, desires, mistakes, and transitions. And just when we've gotten settled back down, things get shaken up again. This is the life we've been given. So how do we make sense of life's unexpected nature, find a way to embrace the tension, and live with a sense of peace despite pain? In this stunningly honest, compelling, and ultimately hopeful book, Josh James Riebock explores issues of trust, obedience, intimacy, dreams, grief, purpose, and the unexpected stops along the journey that form us into the people we are. In a creative way, he shows readers that pain and beauty are so inextricably linked that to lose the former costs us the latter. Those grappling with life's inconsistencies and trials will especially find a welcome resonance between their lives and Heroes and Monsters. Riebock both validates their experiences and challenges them to live beyond them in this ever-changing life.
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  • Author

    Josh James Riebock

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Baker

  • Published

    April 2012

  • Weight

    432g

  • Page Count

    304

  • Dimensions

    13.8 x 21.4 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780801013980

  • ISBN-10

    0801013984

  • Eden Code

    4010153

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    Josh first met Jesus in the form of a scarecrow called Jack as he sat, aged seven, in the car his drunken father had just ploughed into a cornfield. Maybe. Because he admits at the outset that not everything in the book actually happened and some of it happened in a different order. Part autobiography, part redemption song, part stream-of-consciousness, this tale is as messy and as arbitrary as real life. It should be mind-numbingly tedious because essentially it?s a 289-page essay in self-absorption, but somehow it manages to be compelling. Jesus is referred to as ?Jack? throughout, but always present ? welcomed, resented, engaged with, wrestled with, surrendered to... over and over again. ?I want love without drama, romance without pain... intimacy without vulnerability... a guarantee. I want something that doesn't exist. Maybe we all do.? Josh says near to the beginning. By the end he has accepted that, even if he could achieve his aim it would not be a good thing, and (almost) ceased wanting it. I love the Derek Greer cover art, dislike the ending and am still not sure about what?s in between. My best recommendation is that you read it and decide for yourself.

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    Josh first met Jesus in the form of a scarecrow called Jack as he sat, aged seven, in the car his drunken father had just ploughed into a cornfield. Maybe. Because he admits at the outset that not everything in the book actually happened and some of it happened in a different order. Part autobiography, part redemption song, part stream-of-consciousness, this tale is as messy and as arbitrary as real life. It should be mind-numbingly tedious because essentially it’s a 289-page essay in self-absorption, but somehow it manages to be compelling. Jesus is referred to as ‘Jack’ throughout, but always present – welcomed, resented, engaged with, wrestled with, surrendered to... over and over again. ‘I want love without drama, romance without pain... intimacy without vulnerability... a guarantee. I want something that doesn't exist. Maybe we all do.’ Josh says near to the beginning. By the end he has accepted that, even if he could achieve his aim it would not be a good thing, and (almost) ceased wanting it. I love the Derek Greer cover art, dislike the ending and am still not sure about what’s in between. My best recommendation is that you read it and decide for yourself.

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