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    When I Lay My Isaac Down: Unshakable Faith in Unthinkable Circumstances
    When I Lay My Isaac Down: Unshakable Faith in Unthinkable Circumstances
    When I Lay My Isaac Down: Unshakable Faith in Unthinkable Circumstances
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    When I Lay My Isaac Down: Unshakable Faith in Unthinkable Circumstances

    Written by Carol Kent

    Narrated by Carol Kent

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    This audiobook outlines eight transformational power principles that Gene and Carol Kent learned in the process of facing the news that forever changed their lives: Their twenty-five-year-old son, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy with an impeccable military record, shot and killed his wife’s ex-husband. Jason Paul Kent, long recognized for his exemplary character, now walks a path no one could have predicted-and his family lives in the aftermath of a devastation most cannot imagine.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOasis Audio
    Release dateJan 1, 2005
    ISBN9781608144389
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    Carol Kent

    Carol Kent is the bestselling author of When I Lay My Isaac Down and Becoming a Woman of Influence. Carol is an expert on public speaking, writing, and on encouraging people to hold on to hope when life’s circumstances turn out differently from their dreams. She speaks internationally on the subjects of her books. With vulnerable openness, restored joy, and a sense of humor, Carol helps people to discover the secret of maintaining an enduring faith in the middle of an imperfect world. She and her husband, Gene, live in Florida.

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    • 2/5
      A partly encouraging, but still deeply troubling book. It is a book full of self-pity, entitlement, pride covered up with tears, melodrama, strive for prestige, strive for recuperating of her reputation in order to be able to continue her ministry.

      Don't get me wrong, I was deeply moved by her grief. She must have gone through a very, very hard time. But the book leads to a spiritual dead end, apart from her being a good example in perseverance. There is hardly any other positive take-away from it.

      It is rather a testimony how we should not handle things.

      · She stayed relatively strong in her faith what is quite impressive, but did not really trust God for the outcome of her situation and instead employed a very controlling attitude, spending apparently tens or rather hundreds of thousands of dollars for lawyers, in order to save her son from a penalty or to have him get away with a little condemnation ("I believe my son was mentally incapacitated at the time of the crime, and that he needs treatment and counseling in a controlled environment").

      · She showed no biblical humility. Even David accepted his penalty after his murder, and it is unthinkable to accomodate a behavior like hers within a biblical story. Just imagine David would have been arrested after his murder and his mother would have called together hundreds of friends for prayer and to do multiple Jericho-style prayer walks around and inside the court while manipulating God in a selfish way to spare her son from the law. What happened instead? He deeply repented and faced the consequences like a man, including the death of his son.

      · She repeatedly showed to have not been in the Spirit, when praying for her own desires.

      · She never in the book elaborated on the feelings of the victim's family, but went as far as to have thought 'why can't she not understand what is at stake for me (when she faced the victim's mother in the court). There is (close to) no mention of asking the family for forgiveness, of her driving to the victim's family, of her followers or rather her sending any of the plenty gifts and cards she received.

      - She repeatedly depicted the victim as potential abuser of his very own children who now lived with the mother (supervised visitation only, the victim wanted to have unsupervised visits to his children). Not even once reflected on her own responsibility in approving the marriage of her son to a divorced woman, who must have significantly contributed to a deep hate of her second husband towards her first husband.

      It is more, the author herself later also divorced and even admitted this in the book. She apparently did not learn anything from this one significant sin and the devastating consequences, namely adultery, which his son did not repent of (at least until his murder) and then even led to a bigger sin, to murder. The Bible is so very clear on the effect and escalation of unrepented sins, but neither the murderer nor his family nor apparently many of their supporters ever realized why God was absent in his favor. Instead, she willingly approves of remarriage and underlined this through the other stories in her book.

      Quote: "We each brought our OWN BAGGAGE TO A NEW MARRIAGE and learned to “lay it down,” slowly at first, and then more quickly as trust grew. Joy returned to my soul—but it’s a different kind of joy than I experienced as a young newlywed. It’s a bittersweet joy seasoned with pain, betrayal, grief, and rejection; but it’s also a deeper joy, based on faith and trust in a resurrected Jesus, the ONE WHO UNDERSTANDS GOOD FRIDAY EXPERIENCES BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE."

      God absolutely hates adultery, He absolutely hates remarriage and He even more hates murder. Everything can be forgiven, but in this case there was not even the awareness of those horrible sins. Probably there is not even today.

      · What a waisted opportunity in this book, if she would have only recognized this adultery and warned others not to repeat it, showing first hand the consequences!

      · She constantly praised the achievements of her family and of her son, and even emphasized that he taught Christ to inmates. Now I don't think it is fitting in any way that a Christian teaches within weeks after such a horrible act. Would a pastor who has just murdered someone be allowed to preach in a church? Certainly not. Then why do we think it is ok in a prison? God is certainly very glad to have people coming to Christ and people preaching Christ inside a prison. But I would be very surprised if God would approve a man who recently murdered and is most probably possessed by unclean spirits if not demons, to immediately teach. Moses waited for 40 years until God restored him to leadership!

      · It is not fitting that she is teaching in this book repeatedly exercises for the reader. She should show humility and not manipulate people to still picture her in authority.

      · She went as far as to compare the toe-tag sentence of her son to the death penalty of Christ. Absolutely disgusting and totally inadequate.

      · I do not think that she is a born-again believer and many signs are pointing to her being a Roman Catholic or at least being very close to Catholic Mysticism ( /Contemplative Prayer / Spiritual Formation). She uses as standard Bible for the entire book the heretical Message Bible from Eugene Peterson! She repeatedly quotes Henri Nouwen (Universalist, mantra meditation, embraces Buddhism, taught Kenosis, characterized Thomas Merton the Buddhist - Catholic monk as "the greatest spiritual writer of the twentieth century")!

      - Endorsement of several leaders very close to Roman Catholicism, such as Eugene Peterson, Henri Nouwen, Max Lucado, Michael W. Smith, Rick Warren ...

      · Endorsement on her Twitter account of: Andy Stanley (7x), Augustine (2x), Beth Moore (8x), Charles Spurgeon (5x), Christine Caine (18x), C.S. Lewis (30x), Eugene Peterson (3x), Henri Nouwen (10x), John Ortberg (11x), Max Lucado (37x), Mother Teresa (17x), Richard Foster (3x), Richard Rohr (1x, very popular promoter of New Age), Rick Warren (27x) et al.
    • 5/5
      Amazing book about hope in the midst of unthinkable pain. It was much more than I thought I would be. A must read for any Christian or person dealing with loss, pain and grief.
    • 5/5
      This was a difficult book for me to finish because I have been in similar circumstances, but not as horrible as murder. My relative was in jail, and reading this brought back all of the horrible treatment when visiting, and the hurt and shame experienced at the time. The author, Carol Kent, did an outstanding job in being candid about all of the experience and showing how God strengthened her and her husband and allowed them to be there for their son through the trail and prison life. Her beginning words, how good they had it, was suddenly destroyed with a phone call that their Navy son had murdered his wife's ex-husband, to prevent him from harming his step-children. No excuse for murder so of course, he now is serving a life sentence with no parole...destroying his life, and those who loved him, with one bad choice.an excellent book to read how others get through ordeals that we can only imagine, and think would never happen to us. At the end of each chapter are questions, and I recommend you take the time to use the study guide to see how you would handle a catastrophe in your own own life. I recommend this book to anyone who has a wavering faith and wonder if God can get you through the worst situation you find yourself in.
    • 3/5
      I received this book as a prize on a trip for greiving moms. I loved the overall book. However, it felt like it was trying to hard to teach lessons.
    • 5/5
      In 1999, Carol & Gene Kent watched their comfortable live take a horrible detour when their beloved son was arrested and eventually sentenced to life in prison without the ossibility of parole. Through years of emotional turmoil, the Kents have had to make a choice: to grasp the promises of Goed, or to rejet the one Source of hope that has always provided.