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Summary

In January 2013, THE INSANITY OF GOD: A True Story Of Faith Resurrected, will be published, the first of a two-book project from Nik Ripken. Nik and his wife, Ruth, continue to work amongst believers in very high-risk countries. This amazing and incredibly important book chronicles how God led the Ripkens in 1991 through 1997 entered Somalia naïvely expecting (while feeding thousands of people each day) to partner with Jesus to see light overcome darkness. Instead, after seven long, hard years they exited Somalia asking faith-shaking questions such as, “Is Jesus who he says He is? Does He have both the love and power needed to overcome the entrenched evil in places like Somalia? Or is Jesus just for the Western countries where resurrection has become so celebrated, but crucifixion has been forgotten?” In his book, Nik Ripken tells how he traveled to more than 72 countries and interviewed more than 600 believers who live, or have lived, in the midst of persecution. By reading this book, you can sit at the feet of the Ripkens and learn from them whether one can say in the places of severe persecution, “Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world." http://www.nikripken.com/ http://www.facebook.com/nikripken http://twitter.com/nikripken