Includes Bible study on the Sermon on the Mount. God and Satan have made a wager. Now it's up to Michael Steele to determine a winner. Michael T. Steele has been nominated for an Academy Award, but his most compelling performance has just begun. He has been cast unaware as the lead character in a supernatural drama between good and evil, heaven and hell. Claiming that the Sermon on the Mount is an impossible standard, Satan has chosen Steele to prove his point in a wager with God. God agrees to the choice, insisting that Michael can live out the truths of Matthew 5, 6, and 7 in the ten days before the award ceremonies. The Wager follows Steele as he copes with his career, his crumbling marriage, and his struggles with his faith---not to mention a few diabolical tricks and temptations by Satan and some guidance and encouragement from heaven. All this as Steele probes the depth of the Sermon on the Mount and how one man might follow it. Part fiction, part Bible study, The Wager is a powerful parable examining the Sermon on the Mount and how to live it in today's world.
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Bill Myers (www.Billmyers.com) is a bestselling author and award-winning writer/director whose work has won forty national and international awards. His books and videos have sold eight million copies and include The Seeing, Eli, The Voice, My Life as, Forbidden Doors, and McGee and Me. Bill Myers trabaja con los jovenes y es un escritor/director cuyos libros y peliculas han ganado cuarenta galardones nacionales e internacionales. Es el cocreador de McGee and Me, y autor de la serie Forbidden Doors, la serie My Life as..., The Seeing. Cuando no le esta hablando a personas que han experimentado lo sobrenatural, esta entrevistando a grupos de jovenes de todo el mundo o haciendo un par de peliculas. Su sitio Web es www.BillMyers.com.
The prolific Myers ambitiously tackles themes from the biblical book of Job, the Sermon on the Mount and the Lord's Prayer in this novella that intentionally functions as a Bible study as well as fiction, and only partially succeeds on either level. Film star Michael Steel is 10 days away from a probable Academy Award. In dialogues between God and Satan, the reader finds that Michael is about to become the object of a Job-like wager: God contends that Michael will be able to live out the principles of the Sermon on the Mount in the face of any disaster Satan sends. The battle begins. Michael's wife, Tanya, serves him with divorce papers; the media launches a smear campaign accusing him of pedophilia; and then he is covered, Job-like, with a terrible rash. He learns through these trials that his success as a Christian comes not from hard work, but from staying connected to God. Myers handles many of the novel's themes well (including his refusal to patch up the failing marriage between two Christians), but offers other contrived situations, including a drunk-driving accident that is almost a mandatory means of death for characters in Christian fiction. As Bible study material, the questions provided at the novella's end only graze the bigger issue raised by the wager-God's role in evil and suffering. Myers is a competent writer, however, and his legions of evangelical Christian fans should find this an enjoyable read.
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