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    When I Lay My Isaac Down: Unshakable Faith in Unthinkable Circumstances

    By Carol Kent

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    Carol and Gene Kent’s son is in prison. When I Lay My Isaac Down tells their story and shares the transformational principles they learned about forgiveness and faith.

    Dealing with her anger, grief, and shame, Carol could have given up. Instead she tells a highly personal, heartbreaking, and uplifting story that will bolster your faith. Updated and revised, this edition contains a new chapter about what God has taught Carol since her son’s imprisonment. Includes discussion questions.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTyndale House Publishers
    Release dateMar 20, 2014
    ISBN9781612916668
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    Carol Kent

    Carol Kent is the bestselling author of When I Lay My Isaac Down and Becoming a Woman of Influence. Carol is an expert on public speaking, writing, and on encouraging people to hold on to hope when life’s circumstances turn out differently from their dreams. She speaks internationally on the subjects of her books. With vulnerable openness, restored joy, and a sense of humor, Carol helps people to discover the secret of maintaining an enduring faith in the middle of an imperfect world. She and her husband, Gene, live in Florida.

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    • 5/5
      This was a difficult book for me to finish because I have been in similar circumstances, but not as horrible as murder. My relative was in jail, and reading this brought back all of the horrible treatment when visiting, and the hurt and shame experienced at the time. The author, Carol Kent, did an outstanding job in being candid about all of the experience and showing how God strengthened her and her husband and allowed them to be there for their son through the trail and prison life. Her beginning words, how good they had it, was suddenly destroyed with a phone call that their Navy son had murdered his wife's ex-husband, to prevent him from harming his step-children. No excuse for murder so of course, he now is serving a life sentence with no parole...destroying his life, and those who loved him, with one bad choice.an excellent book to read how others get through ordeals that we can only imagine, and think would never happen to us. At the end of each chapter are questions, and I recommend you take the time to use the study guide to see how you would handle a catastrophe in your own own life. I recommend this book to anyone who has a wavering faith and wonder if God can get you through the worst situation you find yourself in.

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    • 5/5
      In 1999, Carol & Gene Kent watched their comfortable live take a horrible detour when their beloved son was arrested and eventually sentenced to life in prison without the ossibility of parole. Through years of emotional turmoil, the Kents have had to make a choice: to grasp the promises of Goed, or to rejet the one Source of hope that has always provided.

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    • 3/5
      I received this book as a prize on a trip for greiving moms. I loved the overall book. However, it felt like it was trying to hard to teach lessons.