Publisher Description
Talk about working out your faith with fear and trembling–a scheme is plotted to put the fright back into Skary–and get their most famous resident out of love and back into the thrill business.
The biggest thing to happen to Skary, Indiana, is renowned horror novelist Wolfe Boone–or, “Boo,” as the locals fondly call him. For the past sixteen years, the reclusive writer has been the town’s greatest attraction, having unintentionally turned the once-struggling Skary into a thriving tourist-trap for the dark side: from the Haunted Mansion restaurant, famous for its “bloody fingers” (fries splattered with ketchup) to Spooky’s Bookstore (where employees dress like the walking dead).
But when a newly reformed Boone suddenly quits the genre and starts to pursue Skary’s favorite girl-next-door, Ainsley Parker, the little town made famous by his writings becomes truly horrified. The residents know that the only solution is for Boo to fall out of love and get back to scaring.
Filled with humor, small town charm, and a gentle message of enduring faith, Boo shows how even the most colorful group of busybodies and hypocrites can become a community changed forever by God.
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Underscore this fact, writes Vernick, a licensed clinical social worker with more than 20 years experience: over-emphasizing one's wants and seeing those wants fulfilled is not the path to personal happiness. Rather, she purports, true happiness comes as a result of being in right relation with God and others. Systematically, Vernick (How to Act Right When Your Spouse Acts Wrong) lays the foundation to support this premise by first defining psychological catchphrases in light of biblical principles and theological repercussions. Terms such as self-image, self-esteem and self-love all take a beating here, as Vernick unpacks these "self"-consuming distractions as mere excuses for sinful thinking and behavior. She argues that too much self-obsession and not enough confidence in God can lead Christians toward discouragement, depression and destructive life patterns. Christians need to have a realistic understanding of their divine worth and value, balanced by a sense that their success comes because of Christ's active redemptive power. Vernick tackles such virtues as humility, selflessness, fear of God, intimacy with God and joy, in chapters that are thoughtful though occasionally tedious and slow-moving. Overall, her timely and refreshing message is one that serious Christian followers will likely pay attention to.
