**11.16.13 Update: The two randomly selected winners are #4 (Rebekah) & #10 (Meghan). Congratulations to both of you! Check your email for details. 
Thanks to everyone else who entered…you can find the book here!**
Last month, I had the great privilege and opportunity of participating in the launch team for Pete Wilson’s new book, Let Hope In.
If you missed my full review, you should definitely go check it out here. Word on the street is that the review was pretty helpful, but I’ll let you be the judge of that for yourself.
I won’t restate my whole review here (because you just clicked over and read it, right?), but in short, I still believe this book is powerful and freeing. For me and for you.
Because over and over again, its message points to the hope and truth of the Gospel.
In every past hurt and future unknown, the cross of Christ is constant.
And it is only in the person of Jesus Christ that we find the hope and freedom, the healing and wholeness, the grace and forgiveness, that we so desperately seek and crave.
“He [Jesus] clearly says, “In me.” When you immerse your current reality into my reality, that is where peace is found.” (p. 74)
Our hope, our future, our being, is secure in Him alone.
Pete outlines the fullness of this truth in four choices:
Choice One: Choosing to Transform Instead of Transfer
Choice Two: Choosing to Be Okay with Not Being Okay
Choice Three: Choosing to Trust Rather than Please
Choice Four: Choosing to Free People Rather than Hurt Them
And through each of these choices, we are encouraged to let go of who shame tells us we once were or who we think we should be according to our own standards, to lean into Christ, to understand our identity in Him, to trust Him, to walk with Him, to experience the richness and fullness of His presence, to breathe in His grace, and then to pour His love back out onto others.
Here’s how Pete himself says it…
{note: if you’re reading via email or a feed reader, you may need to click over to the actual post to see this video.}
Yes, I am a part of the launch team for this book, but this is a message I firmly believe in sharing. Because this message is literally life-changing!
And because I believe in it so much, I am super excited that the publisher has so generously offered to provide TWO copies to giveaway in this space!
To enter for a chance to win a copy, all you have to do is leave a comment telling me why you want to read this book. Or just say hello! Just be sure to use a valid email address, so I can get in touch with you if you’re one of the winners.
You can comment until midnight (EST) on Friday (November 15, 2013), and then TWO winners will be chosen randomly and announced/contacted on Saturday (November 16, 2013).
And just for the record, you can also order the book (or read some other reviews) here.
