{"product_id":"grace-upon-grace","title":"Grace Upon Grace: Nine Decades of Stories from a Farm Boy, Midshipman, Officer, and Evangelist","description":"\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e\u003c!--\ntd {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}\n--\u003e\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-value='{\"1\":2,\"2\":\"A cinematic treatment of worldview: 60 Minutes meets \\\"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.\\\"\"}' data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":513,\"3\":{\"1\":0},\"12\":0}'\u003eGod is good, all the time. Jim Wilson was born in 1927 and raised in a Depression-era farming family. When he was sixteen, at the height of World War II, Jim became the primary breadwinner for his parents and four younger siblings. At age seventeen, eager to fight for his country, he enlisted in the Navy. Germany surrendered while he was in the recruiting office, and the war was over by the time he entered boot camp. But God had a plan for Jim Wilson in the U.S. Navy...\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/canonpress.com\/app\"\u003eListen on Canon+\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough adventures of sickness, poverty, hard work, and war, this is the story of God's provision and protection in the life of one Nebraska farm boy turned ardent evangelist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-value='{\"1\":2,\"2\":\"What is this world? What kind of place is it? The round kind. The spinning kind. The moist kind. The inhabited kind. The kind with flamingos (real and artificial). The kind where water in the sky turns into beautifully symmetrical crystal flakes sculpted by artists unable to stop themselves (in both design and quantity). The kind of place with tiny, powerfully jawed mites assigned to the carpets to eat my dead skin as it flakes off . . . The kind with people who kill and people who love and people who do both . . . This world is beautiful but badly broken. \\nI love it as it is, because it is a story, and it isn’t stuck in one place. It is full of conflict and darkness like every good story, a world of surprises and questions to explore. And there’s someone behind it; there are uncomfortable answers to the hows and whys and whats. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Through Him were all things made . . .\\nWelcome to His poem. His play. His novel. Let the pages flick your thumbs.”\"}' data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":769,\"3\":{\"1\":0},\"11\":4,\"12\":0}'\u003eWhat People Are Saying:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e\u003c!--\ntd {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}\n--\u003e\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-value='{\"1\":2,\"2\":\"What is this world? What kind of place is it? The round kind. The spinning kind. The moist kind. The inhabited kind. The kind with flamingos (real and artificial). The kind where water in the sky turns into beautifully symmetrical crystal flakes sculpted by artists unable to stop themselves (in both design and quantity). The kind of place with tiny, powerfully jawed mites assigned to the carpets to eat my dead skin as it flakes off . . . The kind with people who kill and people who love and people who do both . . . This world is beautiful but badly broken. \\nI love it as it is, because it is a story, and it isn’t stuck in one place. It is full of conflict and darkness like every good story, a world of surprises and questions to explore. And there’s someone behind it; there are uncomfortable answers to the hows and whys and whats. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Through Him were all things made . . .\\nWelcome to His poem. His play. His novel. Let the pages flick your thumbs.”\"}' data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":769,\"3\":{\"1\":0},\"11\":4,\"12\":0}'\u003e\"My Grandfather has been telling fantastic stories for as long as I can remember, and living them for far longer than that. His influence is a huge contributor to my own career as a story teller, and I’m incredibly grateful—for myself and my kids—that he found the energy to compile his life story in book form. Just one caution: don’t go thinking he’s a reliable narrator. He isn’t. He undersells himself constantly, but only because his eyes are so firmly locked on the true Author, the One who wrote every one of these Jim Wilson stories while the concrete for time’s foundation was still wet and churning in the trucks.\" \u003cstrong\u003e-N.D. Wilson, author of the \u003cem\u003e100 Cupboards \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eAshtown Burials \u003c\/em\u003eseries\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"For sixty years, Jim helped me apply my Christian faith to life—not through eloquence, power, or wealth but through a demonstrated commitment pointing the way to life’s Source. This is the story of an American life well lived.\" \u003cstrong\u003e-John Knubel, Lt. Cdr. USN Retired, Naval Academy Class of ’62.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"descriptionAndDetails\" class=\"a-section a-spacing-extra-large\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"productDescription_feature_div\" class=\"feature\" data-feature-name=\"productDescription\" data-cel-widget=\"productDescription_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"productDescription_feature_div\" data-feature-name=\"productDescription\" data-template-name=\"productDescription\" class=\"a-row feature\" data-cel-widget=\"productDescription_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"productDescription\" class=\"a-section a-spacing-small prodDescWidth\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-live=\"polite\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"300\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-expander-partial-collapse-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJim Wilson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ehas worked as a pastor and director of Community Christian Ministries (Moscow, Idaho) for over forty years. Before that, he served in the Navy as an officer for nine years and then with Officers' Christian Fellowship for another ten years. Jim has authored a number of books including\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWeapons \u0026amp; Tactics \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eHow to Be Free from Bitterness \u003c\/em\u003eand is well known for his practical Bible teaching on relationships and evangelism. Jim's wife Bessie went to be with the Lord in September 2010 after fifty-eight and a half years of married life. As of 2016, they have twenty-six great-grandchildren. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 1.4em;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eAUTHOR: Jim Wilson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePUBLISHER: Community Christian Ministries\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePAGE COUNT: 502 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBINDING: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSIZE: 5.50x8.50\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN 10: 1882840305\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781882840304\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRELEASE DATE: 2020\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jim Wilson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":41201590763635,"sku":"A-178","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0590\/5462\/0787\/files\/jim-wilson-books-paperback-grace-upon-grace-nine-decades-of-stories-from-a-farm-boy-midshipman-officer-and-evangelist-15119577972784.jpg?v=1763147321","url":"https:\/\/wholesale.canonpress.com\/products\/grace-upon-grace","provider":"Canon B2B","version":"1.0","type":"link"}