Chapter 1: You’ll Get Through This
1. Emphasis mine.
2. Spiros Zodhiates, ed., The Hebrew-Greek Key Word Study Bible: Key Insights into God’s Word, New American Standard Bible, rev. ed. (Chattanooga, TN: AMG, 2008), Genesis 50:20. See also “Greek/Hebrew Definitions,” Bible Tools, Strong’s #2803, chashab, www.bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Lexicon.show/ID/H2803/chashab.htm.
3. The same term is used in Genesis 13:4 (“he had . . . built an altar” [NIV]), Job 9:9 (“He made the Bear”), and Proverbs 8:26 (“he made the earth” [NIV]).
4. Zodhiates, The Hebrew-Greek Key Word Study Bible, Genesis 50:20. See also Strong’s Exhaustive Bible Concordance Online, #6213, www.biblestudytools.com/lexicons/hebrew/nas/asah.html.
5. Genesis 50:20 is from The Message.
6. Emphasis mine.
7. Joseph was probably seventeen when he was sold to the Midianites (Gen. 37:2). He was twenty-eight when the butler, who promised to help him get out of prison, was released (40:21–23). Two years later, when Joseph was thirty, Joseph interpreted Pharaoh’s dreams (41:1, 46). And Joseph was about thirty-nine when his brothers came to Egypt the second time (45:1–6), in the second year of the famine following the seven years of plenty.
Chapter 2: Down, Down, Down to Egypt
1. “Every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians” (Gen. 46:34).
Chapter 3: Alone but Not All Alone
1. JJ Jasper, personal conversations with the author. Used by permission.
2. Thomas Lye, “How Are We to Live by Faith on Divine Providence?” in Puritan Sermons 1659–1689 (Wheaton, IL: Richard Owen Roberts, Publisher, 1981), 1:378.
3. Emphasis mine.
4. Emphasis mine.
5. Edward Mote, “The Solid Rock,” in Sacred Selections for the Church, comp. and ed. Ellis J. Crum (Kendallville, IN: Sacred Selections, 1960), 120.
6. Augustine, Saint Augustine: Sermons on the Liturgical Seasons, trans. Sister Mary Sarah Muldowney (New York: Fathers of the Church, 1959), 85–86.
7. Emphasis mine.
Chapter 4: Stupid Won’t Fix Stupid
1. Genesis 39:5.
2. David M. Edwards, “Song Story; Take My Hand, Precious Lord: The Life of Thomas Dorsey,” Worship Leader Magazine, March/April 2010, 64–65. Copyright © 2010 by Worship Leader Partnership. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
3. Ibid, 65.
4. Thomas A. Dorsey, “Take My Hand, Precious Lord” (Hialeah, FL: Warner-Tamerlane, 1938, renewed). All rights reserved. Used by permission.
5. Edwards, “Song Story,” 65.
Chapter 5: Oh, So This Is Boot Camp!
1. Howard Rutledge and Phyllis Rutledge with Mel White and Lyla White, In the Presence of Mine Enemies—1965–1973: A Prisoner of War (New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1975), 33, 35.
2. Emphasis mine.
3. Spiros Zodhiates, ed., The Hebrew-Greek Key Word Study Bible: Key Insights into God’s Word, New American Standard Bible, rev. ed. (Chattanooga, TN: AMG, 2008), #977, p. 1817. See also Strong’s Concordance with Hebrew and Greek Lexicon, http://www.eliyah.com/cgi-bin/strongs.cgi?file=hebrewlexicon&isindex=977.
4. Emphasis mine.
5. Bob Benson, “See You at the House.”: The Stories Bob Benson Used to Tell (Nashville: Generoux, 1986), 202–3.
6. Rutledge and Rutledge, In the Presence, 39, 52.
Chapter 6: Wait While God Works
1. Psalm 46:10.
Chapter 7: More Bounce Back Than Bozo
1. Jay Kirk, “Burning Man,” GQ.com, February 2012, www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201202/burning-man-sam-brown-jay-kirk-gq-february-2012, 108–15; Sam Brown, personal conversation with the author. Used by permission.
Chapter 8: Is God Good When Life Isn’t?
1. Christyn Taylor, CaringBridge.org, August 22, 2010, created at http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/rebeccataylor1. Used by permission.
2. Joni Eareckson Tada, “God’s Plan A,” in Be Still, My Soul: Embracing God’s Purpose and Provision in Suffering, ed. Nancy Guthrie (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2010), 32–33, 34.
3. Donald G. Bloesch, The Struggle of Prayer (Colorado Springs, CO: Helmers and Howard, 1988), 33.
4. Taylor, CaringBridge.
Chapter 9: A Splash of Gratitude with That Attitude, Please
1. Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit: Selected from the Writings and Sayings of Henry Ward Beecher, comp. William Drysdale (New York: D. Appleton, 1887), 13.
2. Special thanks to Daniel for allowing me to share his story.
Chapter 10: Now, About Those Family Scandals and Scoundrels
1. Genesis 37:2.
2. Genesis 43:30; 45:2, 14, 15; 46:29; 50:1, 17.
Chapter 11: Revenge Feels Good, but Then . . .
1. “Spite House,” New York Architecture Images, nyc-architecture.com, http://nyc-architecture.com/GON/GON005.htm.
2. Strong’s Exhaustive Bible Concordance Online, #5117, www .biblestudytools.com/lexicons/greek/nas/topos.html.
Chapter 12: The Prince Is Your Brother
1. Rick Reilly, “Matt Steven Can’t See the Hoop. But He’ll Still Take the Last Shot,” Life of Reilly, ESPN.com, March 11, 2009, http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3967807. See also Gil Spencer, “Blind Player Helps Team See the Value of Sportsmanship,” Delaware County Daily Times, February 25, 2009, www.delcotimes.com /articles/2009/02/25/sports/doc49a4c50632d09134430615.
2. In retaliation for an attack on their sister, Simeon and Levi slaughtered all the males in the village of Shechem (Genesis 34).
3. Emphasis mine.
Chapter 13: Good-bye to Good-byes
1. “John Herschel Glenn, Jr. (Colonel, USMC, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (Former),” National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Biographical Data, www.jsc.nasa.gov/bios/htmlbios/glenn-j.html.
2. Bob Greene, “John Glenn’s True Hero,” CNN.com, February 20, 2012, www.cnn.com/2012/02/19/opinion/greene-john-annie-glenn /index.html.
3. From a conversation with Steven Chapman on November 30, 2011. Used by permission.
4. Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent, Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2011), 94–96.
Chapter 14: Keep Calm and Carry On
1. “The Story of Keep Calm and Carry On,” YouTube video, 3:01, posted by Temujin Doran, www.youtube.com /watch?v=FrHkKXFRbCI&sns=fb. See also Keep Calm and Carry On: Good Advice for Hard Times (Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel, 2009), introduction.
2. Jim Collins, “How to Manage Through Chaos,” CNN Money, September 30, 2011, http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2011/09/30 /jim-collins-great-by-choice-exclusive-excerpt.
3. Ibid.
Chapter 15: Evil. God. Good.
1. Christine Caine, Undaunted: Daring to Do What God Calls You to Do (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2012), 48.
2. Ibid., 48–49.
3. Ibid., 191.
4. Christine Caine, personal communication with the author, October 8, 2012.
Questions for Reflection
1. Francis Brown, S. R. Driver, Charles A. Briggs, Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1996), 595–96.
2. C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (New York: Macmillan, 1962), 93.
3. Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1998), 344.
4. C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1970), 52.
5. Craig L. Blomberg and Mariam J. Kamell, James, vol. 16 of Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament, gen. ed. Clinton E. Arnold (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2008), 49.
6. Scot McKnight, The Letter of James, The New International Commentary on the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2011), 71.
7. Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1973), 15.
8. Hartmut Beck, New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology, vol. 2, gen. ed., Colin Brown (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1986), “paradidōmi.”
9. C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce (New York: Macmillan, 1946), 67.
10. Roald Amundsen, The South Pole (Seattle: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012), 139.
11. Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart: Putting on the Character of Christ (Colorado Springs: NavPress, 2002), 127.