The Insanity of God
by:
Nik Ripken
Sarah's Review
WOW! WOW! WOW! This book has w/recked me! And I know it will do the same for you. It will convict you. It will change you. It will fire you up. The first several chapters of the book remind me of A Long Walk to Water, while the rest of the book has a Live Not By Lies flare. Nik Ripken was called to be a missionary to Northern Africa. He got into Somalia by running a relief agency there. His descriptions of his trips into Somalia are harrowing. After a life altering family emergency and deep guilt over seeing no converts, he went back to the States to get some answers. He had too many questions. But the question of all questions was this: Could God still work in a place like Somalia…where there was so much death and so much evil, and people were killed for just being in contact with a Westerner? He just couldn’t see how God could move hearts in such a hard place. This led him on a journey into 48 persecution-battered countries around the world, while holding countless interviews with Christians who were still standing for Christ even in the hardest of countries. This is where the book gets INSANE and POWERFUL! I won’t give any more away, but by the time you get to the end of the book, I think you’ll agree with me that this book is incredibly moving. This took the prize for my favorite book of 2022. *I’ve heard the documentary is amazing too, but I haven’t watched it yet.