The Divine Nobodies

<p>What does a Hip-Hop artist Waffle House waitress tire salesman and disabled girl have to do with discovering spiritual truth? What if embracing authentic Christianity is a journey of unlearning? Welcome to Jim Palmer's world!</p><p>Don Miller meets Anne Lamott meets Brian McLaren in this tale of shedding religion and plunging into uncharted depths of knowing God. Jim Palmer emergent pastor shares his compelling off-road spiritual journey and the unsuspecting people who became his guides.</p><p>Perhaps God's reason for wanting me writes Palmer is much better than my reason for wanting him. Maybe God's idea of my salvation trumps the version I am too willing to settle for. Seeing I needed a little help to get this God sent a variety pack of characters to awaken me. For all those hoping there's more to God and Christianity than what they've heard or experienced each chapter of <i>Divine Nobodies</i> gives the reader permission and freedom to discover it for themselves. Sometimes comical other times tragic at times shocking always honest; Jim Palmer's story offers an inspiring and profound glimpse into life with God beyond institutional church and conventional religion. </p><p>I am tempted to say that Jim Palmer could well be the next Donald Miller but what they have in common along with an honest spirituality and extraordinary skill as storytellers is a unique voice . . . Divine Nobodies is a delight to read and it was good for my soul to read it. <br>-BRIAN MCLAREN<br>Author of <i>The Secret Message of Jesus</i></p><p>You hold in your hands an amazing story of a broken man finding freedom in all the right places-in God's work in the lives of some extraordinarily ordinary people around him. You will thrill to this delightful blend of gut-wrenching honesty and laugh-out-loud hilarity and in the end you'll find God much closer the body of Christ far bigger and your own journey far clearer than you ever dreamed.<br>-WAYNE JACOBSEN<br>Author of </i>Authentic Relationships </i></p>