Is there really a seat for EVERYONE at God's Diner? Follow Bessie Bear, Bob Beagle, Dee Duck, and Pug the Grouch Face through the wide-open door of the best diner in town as they look to fill their hungry tummies and discover more than great food on the menu. Grab a chair and join the fun, there is always a place for everyone.

The first book to center the voices of sexual abuse survivors while rethinking key Christian beliefs. Readers will discover new ways of thinking about God that are surprising, challenging, inspiring, and empowering, leading to deep healing for individuals and a transformed church that no longer contributes to the devastation of sexual abuse.

Chad, Tim and Amy grew up in the small town of Mulburn. Chad and Amy were childhood sweethearts and vowed to get married one day at Mulburn Christian Church. Mulburn Christian is the church where all three of them together attended. Chad's strong Christian faith starts to weaken when he moved to Romania to complete missionary work. Years later, Chad returns back to Mulburn only to find it completely different of how he remembered. He discovers that his grandmother is gravely ill. He will be challenged even further, when his grandmother decides to share the secrets of his childhood that has burdened her his entire life. Chad will have to face one dilemma after another, and he'll have to do it without Amy and Tim. Amy's disappearance has caused her parents such grief and heartache that they also start to question their faith. As a result, their marriage starts to unravel and they are left with so many unanswered questions. Will they be able to handle the truth? Tim leaves Mulburn after his dad died. He attends medical school and takes on the medical community with a relentless zeal. Then he meets a nurse, Samantha Bering, and his life entirely changes. Does Tim slow down enough in his quest for perfection to find out who really he is and his purpose? This story depicts the real struggles that Christians go through in their walk with God and the true value of what redemption means to the soul.

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