Peb Jackson and James Lund. Ada, Mich.: Revell Books, 2010. 214 pp. (Paperback).
This book is a collection of stories about daring and adventure — stories about mountain climbers, deep-sea divers, kidnapped missionaries and smoke-jumpers. Each story has an element of suspense, of personal risk, danger and death. The authors have crafted the stories well, building suspense that keeps the reader hanging on to see what happens next. They are not good for bedtime reading.
What the book is good for is illuminating the hearts of the readers. Developed for study groups with men and teenage boys, the stories are also appropriate for personal study. Each of the sixteen stories ends with a series of questions intended, according to the authors, to “discover who you are and find out who you were meant to be.”
The questions are well crafted and begin with queries for general discussion, then move into more personal issues designed for personal reflection only. Prompts for prayer are offered along the way, and resources for further reading are listed at the end of each story.
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