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Continue to follow along in the story of Jesus' Silent Years as He reaches the lowest point in His life.He hits bottom. He's imprisoned and sexually abused in a Roman dungeon. He learns to mourn and fight new battles, within and without. Claudia, the friend who adores him and who he loves, is exiled in the Adriatic. She follows a parallel course of growing through suffering while longing for Jesus. Both continue to mature by failing, falling, and then rising again, stronger.
In
Jesus' Silent Years: Parable Jesus matures through temptation, doubt, and longing. He follows the classic path of the hero-beginning in an unremarkable mudhole, unknown and undistinguished, innocent and naïve, in
Foundations. He steadily moves down into the mainstream of growing up- leaving home, wrestling with his own unique God-man identity. Suffering and loss carve out an interior life for him, in
Parable and
Journey. Finally, he shows us all how to listen to the world of spirit-adorned with the jewels of wisdom, compassion, and courageous vulnerability-in
Homecoming.
About the author
Dr. Shepperson is a 3rd generation Presbyterian preacher¿s son. He attended boarding schools and colleges in the UK, Switzerland, and the USA. He earned a doctoral degree in clinical psychology along the way, worked as an Air Force psychologist, and was on faculty at a doctoral program of psychology in California. He and his wife owned a group psychotherapy practice in California. For the past decade or so he served as a missionary in southwest China, the UK, and New Zealand. Now he and his wife live and practice as licensed psychologists in Hawaii¿but he mainly writes stuff.
