Broken -- At the river -- Mother wounds -- Crazy faith -- Becoming a wardle man -- Devil or disciple? -- Coming home -- "Sissy boy" -- Falling down the ladder of success -- Locked up -- Disaster relief -- Uncovering the deepest wound -- Back to Redding -- Crazy about you -- By what right? -- Why are you so afraid? -- Something in this trouble -- Lament -- Beloved.
Summary:
Terry Wardle grew up in the Appalachian coalfields of southwestern Pennsylvania, part of a hardscrabble family of coal miners whose cast of characters included a hot-tempered grandfather with a predilection for blowing up houses, a distant and disapproving father, and a mother who disciplined him with harsh words and threats of hellfire. After enduring a crazy childhood, Terry graduated to a troubled adolescence, and then on to what seemed like a successful transition into adulthood, earning multiple degrees and founding one of the country's fastest growing churches. But all was not well. All his life, he felt he was never enough. Plagued by a truckload of fear no matter what he accomplished, he fell down the ladder of success into the deepest ditch of his life--ending up in a psychiatric hospital. Fortunately, that's when he discovered that Jesus has no fear of ditches.
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