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Secondhand Jesus is unavailable, but you can change that!

God has offered us firsthand knowledge of His love, His grace, and His power. Yet so often, we too easily settle for someone else's descriptions, the Cliff notes from another's spiritual journey. We are content for "God-experts" to do the heavy lifting and then give us the bottom line. And like any secondhand information, after enough times through the grapevine, the truth about God deteriorates...

cannot control it. Tragedy is a reminder that the suburban life is not universal. What we have in common as human beings is not our drive for success; it’s our experience of suffering. There are many things that lift Americans comfortably above the rest of the world. We spend more on lattes in a month than many people around the world earn in a year. But tragedy is the great equalizer. It reminds us that no matter how rich, how comfortable, how powerful, how successful we are—or how big our SUVs are