Muscle and a Shovel: A Raw, Gritty, True Story About Finding the Truth in a World Drowning in Religious Confusion. - Softcover

Shank, Michael J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615474616 ISBN 13: 9780615474618

Publisher: Michael Shank, 2011

Synopsis

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   Muscle and a Shovel is a raw and gritty true story about a pair of young newly-weds who move to the city to chase the American dream. In the process they're befriended by a man who turns their belief about God, their church, and their faith upside down! Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Catholics, the Community Churches - none are spared when Truth is at stake and their new friend Randall isn't about to "candy coat" God's Word for the sake of "political correctness" or "religious tolerance." 

This story will grip you from opening to close and will stimulate your spirit on levels you didn't think possible. Get ready to fight or flee because Muscle and a Shovel is one of those rare books that will raise your heart-rate and your blood-pressure. You won't want to wait to share it with your friends or you'll want to dowse it in gasoline and set on fire! There'll be no middle ground. 

Many Christian reviewers have said, "This book will turn our current religious world upside-down!"

About this title

From the Author:

Your beliefs about the Lord Jesus Christ, the Almighty Father in Heaven and your church are beliefs that you hold close to your heart, and rightfully so. However, your beliefs are about to be challenged in a way that you never thought possible.
 
The story you are about to read is completely true in every sense. There are no exaggerations or embellishments. What you are about to read happened to me several years ago and I'm sharing it with you for one reason and one reason only. I cannot, however, reveal this reason unless you read this story from beginning to end.  If you make it to the end you'll discover the reason... and I promise you that it will be worth your time.
 
But let me give you a fair warning: what you are about to read might anger, frustrate and agitate your senses beyond description. This story may force you to examine the beliefs you hold so dear to your heart. This story is not for the weak-minded, nor is it for those who have their sensibilities easily offended.
 
Many who begin this story won't make it to the end.  Will you have the courage, the heart and the honesty of character to finish this story to its end?

From the Inside Flap:

PREFACE QUOTES

"The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around. What do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so injured, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it."
--Morpheus
 
 
 
"It is easier to believe a lie
one has heard
a thousand times
than to believe a fact
one has never heard before."
                                                                              --author unknown

About this edition

• Publisher: Michael Shank
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0615474616
• ISBN 13: 9780615474618
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 380