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Review Lotz treats issues ranging from hell to suffering, marriage(including some of her own struggles) to life-threatening illness (including her son’s recent diagnosis with cancer). Still, some of Lotz’s heart-warming stories are decidedly warmed-over (haven’t we heard enough yet about World War II evangelical hero Corrie Ten Boom?). There is very little in this book that hasn’t been said many, many times before–even some of the personal anecdotes have a curiously familiar ring to those versed in the stock stories of evangelical preaching. Lotz is in some ways a thoroughly modern woman, so even as conventional a book as this makes for an interesting comparison to its devotional predecessors of a previous generation. Not only is Lotz pursuing a traditionally male career by preaching and running a growing para-church ministry; her life, and the lives of her assumed readers, betrays a busy sophistication that would have been puzzling to a generation of less “worldly” evangelicals. (Beliefnet, May 2000)