A fresh new look for the best-selling series from America’s number-one inspirational novelist, Karen Kingsbury. Fans will enjoy a personal note from Karen and Gary Smalley as well as discussion questions for book group use. Revisit the Baxter family in all their life-changing events, or share the series with someone who hasn’t discovered it yet.
The Redemption series won Christian Retailing’s 2005 Retailer’s Choice Award for Best Series!
When Kari Baxter Jacobs finds out that her husband is involved in an adulterous relationship and wants a divorce, she decides she will love him and remain faithful to her marriage at all costs. This book shows how God can redeem seemingly hopeless relationships, and it illustrates one of Gary Smalley’s key messages: Love is a decision.
Redemption is the first book in the five-book Redemption series about the Baxter family—their fears and desires, their strengths and weaknesses, their losses and victories. Each book explores key relationship themes as well as the larger theme of redemption, both in characters’ spiritual lives and in their relationships.
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Summary
Overall Master storyteller Karen Kingsbury partners with relationship expert, Gary Smalley to create an entire series of five books called The Redemption Series. The first book in the series by the same name (Redemption) introduces us to the Baxter family who eventually becomes the subjects of over twenty books. Kingsbury and Smalley start the series with a winner, dealing with issues of marital unfaithfulness (both physically and emotionally), forgiveness, parenting adult children, living a life for Christ, children straying from the path in which they have been raised, and of course, redemption. Kingsbury and Smalley have tapped into emotions that are hauntingly
familiar, perhaps even commonplace in today's world. How does one love another when that person has betrayed your love? Which is worse: physical marital unfaithfulness or
emotional unfaithfulness? or are they equal? I love a book that causes me to think through my life decisionsthis book has the potential to do just that. Over and over
again, the message that \"love is a decision\" is clearly portrayed. A secondary theme is what is a parent to do when the children they carefully and prayerfully raised one way, turn and go seemingly in another . . . stray. Looking forward to reading the next installment!
Violence Involves a murder but in no way graphic.
Language
Sexual Extramarital affair. Emotionally charged kissing.
Drug & Alcohol A steroid user and alcoholism depicted.