Jordan's Crossing

by Randall Arthur

Book Overview

When pastor John Rau, an avowed liberal, accepted a position with a European missions agency, his decision was not based on an opportunity to serve God, but on the monetary rewards the position would... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880705825
• ISBN13: 9780880705820
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Multnomah Books
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

A deeply faithful and reverant book

Written by a missionary who served in Europe for twenty-two years, Jordan's Crossing is a novel about an avowed liberal led astray first by greed, then when his young son is murdered, by thoughts of revenge and dealing out "justice" with his own hands. Hatred and revenge control him, driving him to destroy his own family as surely as his son's killers, and only a divine miracle can stop him. Jordan's Crossing is written with a passion for God and trust in His guidance, and reverberates with conservative Christian hope and morals. A deeply faithful and reverant book.

Still amazing

I have read few authors that gripped me the way Randall Arthur has in his three stories (Brotherhood of Betrayal, Jordan's Crossing, and Wisdom Hunter). I could not put any of them down and lost a lot of sleep the week I read them. I cried and laughed and prayed my way through each of them. Randall, if you're reading this, thank you for letting God write through you. Though it has a been a good six months since I read them I am tearing up as I remember then now and how God used them in my life. Thank you for being honest about the good and the bad in the "church" and our lives, and about God's grace and His presence through both. I truly thank God for you, brother, I really do.

thought-provoking as well as sensational

Reader from Florida is certainly correct that many of the events are unbelievable, but to me, it did not lessen the book in any way. As Jordan's Crossing opens, it is immediately evident that Jordan is a man who is disturbed and in conflict about many issues dealing with Christianity. After his son is brutally and senselessly murdered, Jordan goes through a change in his attitude and personality that no one, his wife, daughter, or his church members can understand. No one, ministers and psychologists alike, can get Jordan to open up and begin the healing process. Instead, Jordan goes through his own process, or crossing, as he single-mindedly pursues his son's killers. Yes, how he achieves this crossing is riveting, sensational, and even hard to believe, but it works for Jordan's personality and the way that he handles his grief. The reader is kept on the edge of his seat not only to see if Jordan ever gets his man, but also to see if he ever makes his crossing. This is a riveting and thought-provoking book.

You'll underline this novel

Jordans Crossing is an absolute must read. I have learned so much about Christian legalism and am able to recognize it. This story takes place in Europe and every place described and written about I've been, Randall Arthur writes obviously from experience, even to the story's locations. This is a capitvating-no put down book. You'll want to buy as many as you can to give away. A must read!!!

you gotta read this book!

I have read this book 4 or 5 time I love it! It touchs on the nature of GOD and His love for us, How HE will not let us go! Wisdom Hunter, Randall Arthurs other book ,is outstanding a must read!