The One Year Book of Amazing Stories: 365 Days of Seeing God’s Hand in Unlikely Places

ECPA 2020 Christian Book Award Finalist!

You wouldn’t believe it, but . . .

• James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader, grew up mute.
• Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team.
• Albert Einstein was bullied mercilessly in school.
• Beethoven’s mom almost aborted him.

Life takes the strangest sharp turns―and sometimes, U-turns. Robert Petterson―popular speaker, storyteller, and author―has been a student for his entire life of what God is teaching us through those real-life U-turns. In this book, he compiles 365 amazing stories that teach lessons you won’t easily forget. Each entry is written in the rest-of-the-story style popularized by Paul Harvey. With The One Year Book of Amazing Stories, you’ll marvel at how God has used the lives of these ordinary people to change the course of human history.

Bob Petterson became the senior pastor of Covenant in the fall of 2002. He and his wife, Joyce, moved to Naples from New York City, where he was the East Coast President of Mastermedia International, a ministry to film and television executives in Hollywood and New York City. Bob earned his Masters of Divinity degree from Covenant Theological Seminary in 1974 and received his doctorate from Fuller Seminary in 1985. He has previously served as the Pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Tulsa, Oklahoma from 1974-1993 and later at Christ Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC) in Houston, Texas until 2000.