Life in the Wild

Fighting For Faith in a Fallen World

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Discover how to live with hope in a fallen, messed-up, “wild” world, and be encouraged

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Description

We see Jesus, we believe in Jesus and we wait for Jesus, yet still we suffer. This book offers real and rugged answers in life’s dark places. Discover how to live with hope in a fallen, messed- up, "wild" world, and be encouraged.

Walking through Genesis 3, Dan DeWitt shows us how we can look at this world realistically but without despairing, as we wait for God to keep his promise to bring us out of the wild and into his new creation. It’s the contrast between Eden, where everything reflects God’s perfection, and exile, where everything is spoiled by sin. The book helps us survive living in exile - Life in the Wild - until “the glorious day when God will welcome us home, out of the wild”.

This book holds dark and light in balance. It shows how we are living with the effects of the fall (we are messed-up people living in a messed-up place) - but God’s promise, made in Eden, serves as a beacon of light to guide our steps in this fallen world.

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Contents

  • Foreword (Mike Cosper)
    Introduction: The Human Tragedy
    1: Into The Wild
    2: Where Are You?
    3: Dazed & Confused
    4: The War of the Worlds
    5: It’s Not Easy Being Green
    6: The Devil to Pay
    7: God’s Final Enemy
    Conclusion: The Divine Comedy
    Afterword: Poem “Death’s Obituary”

Specification

Contributors Dan DeWitt
ISBN 9781784981693
Format Paperback
First published February 2018
Dimensions 5.1" x 7.8" x 0.3"
Case quantity 132
Language English
Pages 128
Publisher The Good Book Company
Endorsements

Russell D. Moore

President, Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Southern Baptist Convention, Author, Tempted and Tried: Temptation and the Triumph of Christ

Living in our broken world, full of pain and disappointment and sin, is difficult for all of us. In Life in the Wild, Dan DeWitt reminds us that the mess we live in is, like us, awaiting a future redemption. Read along as Dan teaches us to navigate these challenges and anticipate the arrival of our perfect hope, Jesus, who will make an end of death and make his blessings flow far as the curse is found.

Dan Dumas

CEO, Red Buffalo and Special Advisor to the Governor of Kentucky; Author of Live Smart

In Life in the Wild Dan DeWitt gives us a survey of the biblical story that is steeped in theology, empathy, and hope. Read this to better understand all that went wrong in Eden. Read this to remind yourself of the hope that Eden will one day be restored.

Trillia J. Newbell

Author of Enjoy, Fear and Faith, and United.

Life is wild, and by wild I don't mean awesome and fun. Life can be wildly tough. In Life in the Wild, Dan DeWitt teaches us why life is terrible at times and where to turn. But there's hope and you'll find our Hope shared in these pages!

Independent reviews
 

Accessible, short, written to engage

Benjamin Vrbicek, Fan & Flame, January 24th 2018

The book is accessible, short, written to engage someone skeptical or new to Christianity, and full of hope. Like the Bible, it’s book-ended with a discussion of Eden, as it was and as it will be when God restores this world. In the final chapter, which is on death, he writes, “God’s final enemy, death itself, has to die. . . . [T]he Bible makes it certain: one day death will be placed in a coffin. In the last act of human history, we will read death’s obituary”... continue reading

Customer reviews


26/11/2018

“Excellent Book”

A great book which looks at how this world is full of evil, pain and suffering. It has a constant reminder that for Christians this is OK because this world is not our home and we have a great savior in Jesus. I would recommend it to any christian.


26/11/2018

“Excellent Book”

(Review written for 'Life in the Wild')

A great book which looks at how this world is full of evil, pain and suffering. It has a constant reminder that for Christians this is OK because this world is not our home and we have a great savior in Jesus. I would recommend it to any christian.


22/06/2018

“Very helpful read about the Christian life”

I enjoyed this description of the Christian life, highlighting in places the contrast with alternatives. There are several pieces of creative writing/memorable phrases ("Living in the land of meh"; "shame grows in isolation"; "human history marches to the cadence of providence") which help to make the book engaging, and reveal the challenges of a faithful life in fresh ways. In a short book, the author still manages to quote from a wide range of writers to reinforce his points. All in all, I found it a helpful and stimulating read!


22/06/2018

“Very helpful read about the Christian life”

(Review written for 'Life in the Wild')

I enjoyed this description of the Christian life, highlighting in places the contrast with alternatives. There are several pieces of creative writing/memorable phrases ("Living in the land of meh"; "shame grows in isolation"; "human history marches to the cadence of providence") which help to make the book engaging, and reveal the challenges of a faithful life in fresh ways. In a short book, the author still manages to quote from a wide range of writers to reinforce his points. All in all, I found it a helpful and stimulating read!


02/02/2018

“Solid Read ”

Dan's book is an engaging read. It is filled with theological truth and practical application. His use of great contemporary illustrations helps to drive his points home. Dan's subject of the fall of mankind and living in a fallen world is one that many authors have discussed. However, Dan addresses these topics with a cultural awareness that reminds people of their condition and position before God and the war they are at with themselves. After demonstrating thrdr truths of the human condition before God He then paints the way to Jesus as the one who has conquered death and is now the one who can enable us live "Life in with Wild" as we wait his glorious return. It is well done and I highly recommend it!


02/02/2018

“Solid Read ”

(Review written for 'Life in the Wild')

Dan's book is an engaging read. It is filled with theological truth and practical application. His use of great contemporary illustrations helps to drive his points home. Dan's subject of the fall of mankind and living in a fallen world is one that many authors have discussed. However, Dan addresses these topics with a cultural awareness that reminds people of their condition and position before God and the war they are at with themselves. After demonstrating thrdr truths of the human condition before God He then paints the way to Jesus as the one who has conquered death and is now the one who can enable us live "Life in with Wild" as we wait his glorious return. It is well done and I highly recommend it!


01/02/2018

“A little book full of Big truths”

(Review written for 'Life in the Wild')

This was a fun and insightful little book.

Dan DeWitt is a master of analogy. He sees Biblical truth everywhere.

His writing style was slightly reminiscent of C.S. Lewis to me. The content was not hyper-organized but littered with golden nuggets.

One thing I really appreciate is how Dan DeWitt takes the creation story seriously. There is so much truth to be found in the first chapters of the Bible that deeply impacts how we understand our world today.

In order to best live in the wild, we need to understand what life was like before the wild, and what is promised to come after. Dan DeWitt does a great job making the case, and in an artistic way, for having faith as we make our way through the wild.


01/02/2018

“A little book full of Big truths”

This was a fun and insightful little book.

Dan DeWitt is a master of analogy. He sees Biblical truth everywhere.

His writing style was slightly reminiscent of C.S. Lewis to me. The content was not hyper-organized but littered with golden nuggets.

One thing I really appreciate is how Dan DeWitt takes the creation story seriously. There is so much truth to be found in the first chapters of the Bible that deeply impacts how we understand our world today.

In order to best live in the wild, we need to understand what life was like before the wild, and what is promised to come after. Dan DeWitt does a great job making the case, and in an artistic way, for having faith as we make our way through the wild.


27/01/2018

“Loved it!”

I need to start my review with a confession: I'm awful at reading Christian books. I've started 2 or 3 in the past few years, but despite initial enthusiasm, I've not finished any of them. As a busy mum with 3 small children, it's hard to make time unless what you're reading is relevant and accessible .... and this is where Life in the Wild was different. I read it cover to cover in about a month, and really enjoyed it!

The early chapters got me hooked. What was written rang so true for me; that no matter how hard we try, we are messed up people living in a messed world. Using illustrations from Dickens to Disney (!) each chapter looks at different realities of the fall like guilt, shame, broken relationships, suffering and death. But rather than being a depressing read, we are constantly reminded of the hope, reassurance and redemption that Jesus offers. Thank you, Dan DeWitt for a compassionate, hopeful, thought-provoking and Christ-centred start to 2018.


27/01/2018

“Loved it!”

(Review written for 'Life in the Wild')

I need to start my review with a confession: I'm awful at reading Christian books. I've started 2 or 3 in the past few years, but despite initial enthusiasm, I've not finished any of them. As a busy mum with 3 small children, it's hard to make time unless what you're reading is relevant and accessible .... and this is where Life in the Wild was different. I read it cover to cover in about a month, and really enjoyed it!

The early chapters got me hooked. What was written rang so true for me; that no matter how hard we try, we are messed up people living in a messed world. Using illustrations from Dickens to Disney (!) each chapter looks at different realities of the fall like guilt, shame, broken relationships, suffering and death. But rather than being a depressing read, we are constantly reminded of the hope, reassurance and redemption that Jesus offers. Thank you, Dan DeWitt for a compassionate, hopeful, thought-provoking and Christ-centred start to 2018.

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