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Rebel to Your Will

A Story of Abuse, Father Hunger and Gospel Hope

Sean Demars author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Christian Focus Publications Ltd

Published:12th Mar '24

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“Hurt people hurt people. But those who have been called by grace become new creations.”


Emotional and raw, Sean DeMars tells his story of a life turned around. It is a tale of two families: one scarred by brokenness, another renewed by grace. In his storytelling, the tragedy and horror of his early years are punctuated with the beauty of restoration evident in the life he now leads. 

Abandoned by a father and abused by a mother, his search for a father finds a home with the King of heaven who graces him with love and sonship.

 

Follow his journey through abuse, drugs and prison, across the battlefield and mission field and into marriage, family, and ministry in this personal, engaging, and honest testament to God’s grace. As his life and his church are turned around, their stories become a platform to display how God chooses the nothings of the world. 

 

His story is the story of every sinner saved by grace: once a victim and rebel, now redeemed and reconciled.

Sean’s story is wild. Apart from experiencing God’s grace, I don’t know how anyone would believe it. Praise God for his work in and through Sean. 

-- Collin Hansen (Editor–in–Chief, The Gospel Coalition; author, ‘Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation’)

… a recounting of remarkable and amazing grace.

-- Jonathan Leeman (Editorial Director, 9Marks)

Sean’s story is moving and motivating. Sean tells his story in a way that makes much of God.

-- Andy Naselli (Associate Professor of New Testament and Systematic Theology, Bethlehem College and Seminary, Minneapolis, Minnesota)

Wow. What a testimony of God’s grace! May the Lord use Rebel to Your Will to help those who may have experienced similar things to feel seen and to see the beauty, power, wisdom and love of our Heavenly Father. 

-- Shai Linne (Recording Artist and Bible Teacher)

Sean and I could not have lived more different lives. And yet, God, in his mysterious providence, caused our paths to cross and become fast friends. Reading Sean’s story is a powerful reminder that in a world wracked with sin, God is at work making graves into gardens.

-- Matthew T. Martens (Author, ‘Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal

ISBN: 9781527110977

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 145g

128 pages