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Review: Road to Redemption by Brad Mathias

Review: Road to Redemption Brad Mathias Tyndale Momentum 2013 Hope. Encouragement.   Trials.   Life.     A family comes together after sustaining some heavy damage.   Infidelity, anger, a daughter scarred by an encounter with a schoolmate, and all the issues that go with that list.   Sounds pretty familiar sadly, but that is not the final word for these people.   Forgiveness, reconciliation, admitting shortcomings as parents, redemption.   It’s all there.    Brad Mathias describes just such a family---his own.   What I found most remarkable about his work was that here is a man who is not afraid to admit to his faults and failures.   It took a while for him to come to that point, but he did.   He does not leave out the emotional aspects of this either, but he does not dwell there.     Best of all he tells a real version of what following Christ is.   No hype, no sugar coating.   Just ...