Book Review: Leaving Egypt—Finding God in the Wilderness Places
I wasn’t sure if the Amazon Vine Program would be worth my time, but already I’m enjoying the fruits of my choices. Today is no exception.
I chose Leaving Egypt: Finding God in the Wilderness Places simply based on the title. My own wilderness story changed everything about me, and when I was in that season, I thought about the Israelites a lot.
I enjoyed this book a lot. The author, Chuck DeGroat, is the director of the counseling center at The City Church in San Fransisco. He gives a lot of contemporary examples of wilderness stories based on his experiences. I could relate to many and I was inspired and encouraged. Challenged.
The author is also academic dean of the Newbigin House of Studies as well as served as He also served as professor and director of spiritual formation at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando. He not only knows contemporary examples, He knew the Israelites’ stories as well. It’s clear he knows what he’s writing about and we could stand as readers to absorb his words.
No matter how well you know the Exodus story, it is one we live, like it or not. This book gives you the background to understand the ultimate Exodus story, as well as the blueprints on how to make the most of the experience and come out on the other side with freedom. Looking at other Amazon reviews, both those in academia and daily life found the book encouraging, sobering, and challenging. It’s more than a history, more than a summary of contemporary examples, it is a way to find hope and gain perspective that if we’d surrender and trust God with our wilderness, we’d actually flourish.
But we must choose it.
About Leaving Egypt:
The Exodus story is your story.
The Israelites’ liberation from Egypt and journey to the promised land is one the Bible’s most compelling stories a breathtaking account of competing wills, freedom and slavery, faith and doubt.
But the Exodus isn’t just a long-ago Bible story. It’s the overarching theme of every person’s life. We each find ourselves enslaved: to work, to destructive relationships, to food, to spending . . . but beyond our personal Egypt lies God’s promised land.
In Leaving Egypt, Chuck DeGroat shows how our wilderness journey helps us face our fears, receive our new identity, experience transformation, and live into our new found freedom.
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I received this book through my participation in the Amazon Vine Program.
