Your "Plan A" should REALLY including your reading "Plan B" by Pete Wilson

Product InformationFormat: Paperback
Number of Pages: 224
Vendor: Thomas Nelson
Publication Date: 2010
Dimensions: 8.38 X 5.44 (inches)
ISBN: 0849946506

Publisher's Description

Learn how God often does His best work in our most hopeless situations.

What do you do with a shattered dream? Or an unmet expectation? What do you do when your life isn’t turning out the way you thought it would? What do you do when you have to turn to Plan B?

In Plan B pastor and author Pete Wilson uses real life stories of disappointments and hurts along with the biblical stories of men and women like David, Joseph, and Ruth to help readers come to grips with the truth that they will face situations that in themselves they are completely unable to handle but that in them God is simply trying to get them to surrender their plans so that they can receive His. He identifies our common responses to difficulties and offers hope, helping us to

-- Understand what God might be up to
-- See how surrender helps us to receive God’s plan
-- Embrace the community of believers
-- Reconcile a God of love with a life of tragedy and suffering

Wilson points readers to the cross as not just the starting line but the centerpiece of our story with God and shares that it is there we turn in our Plan B and find the undeniable relationship between crisis and our hope followed by true spiritual transformation. "God wants to live inside the questions" says Wilson and then reminds us that "the cross is proof that He does not always change the circumstance but that He always has a purpose in every circumstance. He will never let go of us. He will hold us and His cross will be an anchor for us."


My Thoughts:

I was REALLY looking forward to reading this book and was NOT disappointed. Pastor Pete Wilson really “hit the nail on the head” with this one.

I enjoyed how he intertwined Biblical stories with not only his life, but also the lives of his congregation over the years and other friends. He used characters from the Bible such as Joseph, Job, Paul, Naomi & Ruth, and Abraham.

I believe Pastor Wilson took a complex subject and made it easier for others to try and grasp the concept of (I might have changed some of the wording he used. What DO you do when “life” takes over and you have to move to “Plan B”?! Do you trust God? Do you question God? Can you still feel God’s presence? Do you feel alone? Abandoned?

Pastor Wilson shows us how different people in the Bible responded to different tests in their lives. He teaches that we all need “community”…most of the time we don’t hear about something until it has escalated (divorce, suicide, abuse, etc) without ever hearing about “underlying issues”. God not only wants to hear from us, He wants us to share with others…He wants us to hear and say, “Me, too”! (this HAD to be one of my favorite parts of the book – it “got my toes” a little – because I am one of those people who likes to talk a lot, but not really “share” a lot!).

I would DEFINITELY recommend this book…and WILL!!! It was an easy read and kept you interested…but not so easy that you become bored with it.

THANK YOU TO PASTOR PETE WILSON AND TO BOOKSNEEZE FOR ALLOWING ME TH OPPORTUNITY TO READ THIS BOOK!!!


Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from Thomas Nelson Publishers as part of their BookSneeze.com book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255 : “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”