More than twenty times the Bible refers to God as a steady Rock for His people. The symbol is an apt one. Rock is stable; our God is unchanging. Rock is durable; our God endures forever. We set our buildings on rock; our God is the sure foundation. A rock can cast a shadow; our God is a Shadow in a weary land. A rock can survive a storm; our God is a refuge. Rock is everywhere; our God is omnipresent. The similes would make a long list. This is a unique book. Three powerful preachers Ruthie Jacobsen, Dwight Nelson, and Fredrick Russell have contributed compelling insights into their own journey to the Rock. Their messages are biblical, personal, and passionate. They are also authentic, vulnerable, and motivating.
You will like the fact that these messages first saw the light of day as sermons preached to live congregations; for that reason they tend to carry the informality and brisk pace of the spoken word. You will find the book a joyous read and valuable in your journey, too.
Ruthie Jacobsen has served as Director of Prayer Ministries for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America since 1995. She is also a wife, nurse, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. For seven years, she hosted a weekly talk show on 3ABN television titled, When God s People Pray. She has conducted prayer conferences across North America and in more than twenty other countries.
She is a member of the U. S. National Prayer Committee and the Denominational Prayer Leaders Network. Ruthie has written and contributed to scientific and other journals and recently authored her 16th book. Among them, an Amazon Bestseller, God Wants to Hear You Sing!
Dwight K. Nelson, DMin has served as senior pastor of the Pioneer Memorial Church on the campus of Andrews University in Berrien Springs, MI, since 1983. He is also adjunct professor of preaching in its theological seminary. Dr. Nelson was speaker for the Adventist church s Net 98 evangelistic series, the most far-reaching global satellite campaign ever conducted by the church. Broadcast live in 38 languages, the series reached viewers at more than 7,600 sites in a hundred countries. His books include, Outrageous Grace; The Eleventh Commandment; Creation and Evolution; and his most recent, The Chosen. He is married to Karen Oswald Nelson and they have two married children, Kirk and Kristin, and one beautiful new granddaughter, Ella.
Fredrick A. Freddie Russell is lead pastor of the 4,000-member Berean Seventh-day Adventist Church in Atlanta, GA. While serving as president of Allegheny West Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Pastor Russell s passion was to see the spiritual strength of its 13,000 members enhanced and their prayer lives enriched. When called to Berean he brought that same focus into his pastoral agenda. He embraces the call of the Lord that, My house shall be called a house of Prayer. In his personal life and in his leadership, his passion is to keep the main thing, the main thing, and that is prayer. Weekly worship attendance at Berean is ostensibly the largest of any non-institutionally connected SDA church in North America.
He is married to Brenda, the love of his life; they are parents of two incredible young adults, a wonderful son-in-law, and an awesome grandson.
