Man of Pain
A Novel
- Fiction
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2023
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Publisher's Description
Howard Lamb is a trial lawyer--bright and accomplished, with a home adjacent to one of Alabama's most prestigious country clubs. He also believes he is an apostle of Jesus Christ. Without telling anyone, Lamb takes to the streets of Birmingham, seeking to bring "good news" to everyone he meets. But he soon discovers that his message of love and forgiveness is misunderstood by friends and foes alike. With his efforts increasingly thwarted, and his whereabouts finally revealed, Lamb's leap of faith soon becomes a race against time.
Endorsements (2)
“Nothing goes according to plan or as the reader might expect in the quixotic adventures of self-appointed apostle Howard Lamb and his foul-mouthed sidekick Bobby Ray. Man of Pain takes us on a roller coaster of absurdity, tragedy, and spiritual insight—a journey that veers from the hilariously funny, through the wildly satirical, to the poignant and searing existential question as to what God might be asking of us in our confused and confusing times.”
“It is rare for a writer to capture in equal measure the absurdity and the promise of the gospel. Chris Barnett does precisely this in Man of Pain wherein he shows us the uneasy tensions between despair and hope, abstraction and practice, knowledge and foolishness. All will benefit from the reminder that the windmills at which we tilt may hold less for us than we imagined. No less, however, will we be reminded of a hope against hope which endures even in great difficulty.”
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