Redeeming Love
by Francine Rivers
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Author: Francine RiversEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-07-01
ISBN: 1576731863
Number of pages: 464
Publisher: Multnomah Books
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Book Review: Absolutely one of the best novels I have ever read!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is without a doubt the greatest love story ever told. It is, after all, the story of God's never-ending, redeeming love for us.
Meet Angel...first as a young girl, and then as a young woman. She's learned that "love" isn't something she wants. Men have "loved" her for her entire life, and its left her feeling empty, lonely, and longing for something more. But this has been the only life she's known, and to get out means she must trust yet another man...a man who claims that he truly does "love" her...
Meet Michael Hosea...he knows what love is. He's experienced it, and he longs to share it with others. He longs and prays for the right woman to enter his life...a woman who is pure, clean, and loves our Heavenly Father just as he does. Then God sends him to the Gold Rush town of Pair-A-Dice...
Though Rivers tells the story of Michael and Angel, the real story is in God's incredible love for us. This is not just another "Christian smut" novel, its real. Its deep. We are all "Angel"...we prostitute ourselves, looking for something to fill our empty hearts. We long to be able to trust someone fully, completely...to be able to rest knowing that we are loved. We trust...only to be hurt...again and again. When we finally find the One we can trust completely, we're scared. Will we be hurt yet again? It can't be real...we've messed up too many times, we're not clean. Yet God loves us anyway...and He'll pursue us, even into our deepest, darkest places.
I've read this story over and over again. When I feel distant from God...that I've messed up so bad that He couldn't possibly take me back...this story helps me realize that not only will He take me back...He's out searching for me to bring me home. Even when I'm feeling safe and secure in the love of my Father, this story helps me appreciate where I've come from and all that He has done for me.
I highly recommend "Redeeming Love"...you WILL be touched.
Summary of Redeeming Love
Can God?s Love Save Anyone?Bestselling author Francine Rivers skillfully retells the biblical love story of Gomer and Hosea in a tale set against the exciting backdrop of the California Gold Rush. The heroine, Angel, is a young woman who was sold into prostitution as a child. Michael Hosea is a godly man sent into Angel?s life to draw her into the Savior?s redeeming love. This remarkable novel has sold over a million copies and is among the top twenty on the ECPA fiction bestsellers list for four years running. A six-part study guide, suitable for individual use or group discussion, is included in this bestselling novel.
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California?s gold country, 1850. A time when men sold their souls for a bag of gold and women sold their bodies for a place to sleep.
Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. And what she hates most are the men who use her, leaving her empty and dead inside.
Then she meets Michael Hosea.
A man who seeks his Father?s heart in everything, Michael Hosea obeys God?s call to marry Angel and to love her unconditionally. Slowly, day by day, he defies Angel?s every bitter expectation until, despite her resistance her frozen heart begins to thaw. But with her unexpected softening come overwhelming feelings of unworthiness and fear. And so Angel runs. Back to the darkness, away from her husband?s pursuing love, terrified of the truth she can no longer deny: Her final healing must come from the One who loves her even more than Michael Hosea does?the One who will never let her go.
A powerful retelling of the book of Hosea, Redeeming Love is a life-changing story of God?s unconditional, redemptive, all-consuming love.
Story Behind the Book
?Writing Redeeming Love was a form of worship for me. Through it, I was able to thank God for loving me even when I was defiant, rebellious, contemptuous of what I thought being a Christian meant, and afraid to give my heart away. I had wanted to be my own god and have control of my life the way Eve did in the Garden of Eden. Now I know to be loved by Christ is the ultimate joy and fulfillment. Everything in Redeeming Love was a gift from the Lord: plot, characters, theme. None of it is mine to claim.?
In this splendid retelling of the biblical story of Hosea, bestselling author Francine Rivers pens a heartbreaking romance between a prostitute and the upright and kind farmer who marries her; the story also functions as a reminder of God's unconditional love for his people. Redeeming Love opens with the Gold Rush of 1850 and its rough-and-tumble atmosphere of greed and desire. Angel, who was sold into prostitution as a child, has learned to distrust all men, who see her only as a way to satisfy their lust. When the virtuous and spiritual-minded Michael Hosea is told by God to marry this "soiled dove," he obeys, despite his misgivings. As Angel learns to love him, she begins to hope again but is soon overwhelmed by fear and returns to her old life. Rivers shines in her ability to weave together spiritual themes and sexual tension in a well-told story, a talent that has propelled her into the spotlight as one of the most popular novelists in the genre of Christian fiction. This is one of her best. --Cindy Crosby
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