Speed Bumps on the Way to Heaven

by April Vider

Overview

Is the Bible relevant? Of course it is. It is the story of God's redemptive love for mankind, but is it relevant to me and the particular circumstances of my life? In Speed Bumps on the Way to Heaven, I relive my own life-changing transformational stories and then put the Bible to the test. Does it have value? Yes! Is it relevant? Yes! Each chapter, each speed bump, proves that it is.

Stories of all types are found within the pages of the Bible. Marvelous, wonderful stories are there. Terrible, frightening stories as well. Many are well-loved and well-known, but many are overlooked and barely known. Do the names Tamar, Amnon, and Absalom ring any bells? Their story, for example, causes their three lives and the lives of their entire nation to irrevocably and drastically change. Few today know the story, yet it is profoundly relevant to far too many of us.
Join me as I survey the Bible for its parallels between my life and its characters and themes. Stories from my childhood include, but are not limited to, those relating to mother-daughter conflicts, guilt, early failure, and young marriage. Stories from adulthood include those, for example, relating to poor health, my mother's suicide, and aging parents. They are my own Speed Bumps on the Way to Heaven.

I found myself in the pages of the Bible. Will you find yourself there?

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161325353
Publisher:	Covenant Books
Publication date:	05/08/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	331 KB

About the Author

April Vider has lived in some region of California her whole life. She was raised in the small Northern California town of Penryn, but for most of her adult life, she has been a resident of Southern California.

She graduated from California State University, Long Beach, in 1979 with a bachelor’s of arts degree in history and then proceeded to work in information technology for over thirty years. She retired in 2014.

Her real passion, during her working years, was her work for God and His church, first learning, then teaching the Bible. She has been teaching Bible school for children between first and eighth grades since the 1980s.

Retirement has allowed her to continue her service as a Bible schoolteacher for children and to take up many of her other interests. She began teaching a woman’s Bible study group. She is devoting more of her time to piano teaching and piano playing/accompanying. She and her husband of over thirty years, Paul, who is also retired, especially like taking short trips around the great state of California, which offers such a wide variety of destinations, including desert, beach, and mountains, all within a few hours from their home in Oxnard, California. And last but not least, she is finally adding writing Christian women’s books to the list of her many pursuits.