Grace Sticks: The Bumper Sticker Gospel for Restless Souls

by Kristina Robb-Dover, Michael Frost (Foreword by)

Overview

Even on a bumper sticker, grace is irresistible. Grace Sticks: The Bumper Sticker Gospel for Restless Souls is light-hearted spiritual memoir and theological travel guidance for restless souls looking for more direction, more truth, and more life. Robb-Dover invites readers to reflect on how the bumper stickers they affix to their cars or entertain at traffic lights are themselves spiritual aspirations of sorts pointing to One who is the Way, the Truth and the Life. In their meanderings, with bumper stickers as pit stops, readers will laugh, cry, be provoked, and be inspired to look for God in the most seemingly frivolous and unlikely of places. They'll discover in the process there's as much grace to be found in the journeying itself as in the destination.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781620329610
Publisher:	Cascade Books
Publication date:	10/10/2013
Pages:	162
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.37(d)

About the Author

Kristina Robb-Dover is a restless soul longing for more, for whom God seems to turn up in surprising places. When she is not chasing after or chauffeuring her two kids, she serves as a workplace chaplain. You can find her musings at Beliefnet's "Fellowship of Saints and Sinners." Robb-Dover holds degrees from Yale and Princeton.

Table of Contents

Foreword Michael Frost ix

Preface xiii

Aknowledgments xv

1 Bumper Sticker Babylon: Our Babble, God's Gateway, or Both? 1

The Way

2 "Don't Follow Me. I'm Lost Too!" 15

3 "If You Can Read This, You Are Too Close." 22

4 "Don't Let My Car Fool You. My Treasure Is in Heaven." 33

5 "Honk If You Love Jesus. Text If You Want To Meet Him." 42

6 "God Is My Co-Pilot" 49

The Truth

7 "I've Got Nothing Against God, It's His Fan Club I Can't Stand." 59

8 "Shit Happens" 68

9 'True Love Waits" 75

10 "The Next Time You Think You're Perfect, Try Walking on Water!!" 81

11 "Visualize Whirled Peas" 92

The Life

12 "Coexist" 103

13 "He/She Who Dies with The Most Toys Wins." 110

14 "Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History." 116

15 "God Wants Spiritual Fruit, Not Religious Nuts" 123

16 "got hope?" 130

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"I imagine Kristina Robb-Dover as a kind of mechanic of the soul—reaching down into the depths of our souls to whisper not what we want to hear but what we need to hear. . . . Standing over the hood of our hearts with oil on her face and a used rag in her hand, she tinkers. . . . So open your hood."
—A.J. Swoboda, Author, Messy

"In Grace Sticks, a timely and well-written read, Kristina Robb-Dover's words speak home to my wanderlust soul. . . . Robb-Dover's description of a spiritually hungry culture and what church could truly be, should we seek Christ's vision for it, gives words to my angst. I highly recommend Grace Sticks to church leaders and laypersons who wonder where God is today."
—Emily T. Wierenga, Author, Mom in the Mirror

"For most of us, the slogans of bumper stickers float banally on the surface of culture. But Kristina Robb-Dover has a sharper eye and a keener sense of discernment. She sees beneath the veneer of these popular epigrams a yearning for wisdom and a hungering after grace. Her book is a delight to read."
—Thomas G. Long, Professor of Preaching, Candler School of Theology, Emory University

Editorial Reviews

"I imagine Kristina Robb-Dover as a kind of mechanic of the soul—reaching down into the depths of our souls to whisper not what we want to hear but what we need to hear. . . . Standing over the hood of our hearts with oil on her face and a used rag in her hand, she tinkers. . . . So open your hood."
—A.J. Swoboda, Author, Messy

"In Grace Sticks, a timely and well-written read, Kristina Robb-Dover's words speak home to my wanderlust soul. . . . Robb-Dover's description of a spiritually hungry culture and what church could truly be, should we seek Christ's vision for it, gives words to my angst. I highly recommend Grace Sticks to church leaders and laypersons who wonder where God is today."
—Emily T. Wierenga, Author, Mom in the Mirror

"For most of us, the slogans of bumper stickers float banally on the surface of culture. But Kristina Robb-Dover has a sharper eye and a keener sense of discernment. She sees beneath the veneer of these popular epigrams a yearning for wisdom and a hungering after grace. Her book is a delight to read."
—Thomas G. Long, Professor of Preaching, Candler School of Theology, Emory University

From the Publisher