Out of the Ordinary: God's Hand at Work in Everyday Lives - Softcover

C. S. Lewis observed that you can't study human beings, you can only know them. In Out of the Ordinary, you'll get to know a few of the characters who populate the pages of the Bible.

Some of the individuals David Roper introduces here are well known--either for good, for evil, or for both. Many others, however, go virtually unnoticed. They lived quiet lives, known only for a crisis or a responsibility that propelled them into the limelight for one brief moment.

"These people intrigue me," says the author, "because they enshrine a great truth: God takes delight in nobodies, invests them with beauty and greatness, and uses them to touch the world with grace and truth."

"As such," David concludes, "they are like us--ordinary people in ordinary places doing ordinary things. In them we catch a glimpse of ourselves and the holy work God is doing in and through us, for it is 'out of the ordinary' that God's extraordinary work is done"