Free (nook/Kindle/iTunes/DRM-free) Sifted: God's Scandalous Response [Xtian Advice]

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Sifted: God's Scandalous Response to Satan's Outrageous Demand by Rick Lawrence provides his reassuring scripture-interpretative advice for dealing with life's trials with helpful harvest-processing metaphors, free courtesy of Christian publisher David C. Cook.

This has previously been offered free way back in 2012 and I could have sworn we already had a thread for it, but apparently not.

Currently free, probably just for the next couple of days @ B&N (also UK), Amazon (available to Canadians & in the UK), iTunes & Google Play (both available to Canadians), ChristianBook (DRM-free ePub available to select countries), and may also be free via other venues listed on the publisher's web catalogue page.

Description
Discouraged by life’s difficulties—both life-shifting catastrophes and the drip-drip-drip of daily trouble? Dissatisfied with the same old pat answers about God’s role in our hard times? Rick Lawrence offers fresh biblical perspective based on a single Scripture snapshot--Luke 22:31-32. Jesus tells Peter he’s about to be “sifted like wheat”—shaken hard, beaten, and agitated until he practically falls apart. Satan’s going to do it. And Jesus is going to allow it, in the interest of showing Peter who he really is.

Lawrence uses the simple agrarian metaphor of sifting as a jumping-off point for a rigorously honest, deeply challenging, yet powerfully comforting exploration of the trials that beat us down, the good God who allows our troubles, and the incredible beauty the process of sifting can reveal in us.