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Water To Wine: Some of My Story

Brian Zahnd led a large and successful church, yet he found himself in the middle of a deep personal crisis. He was not sure his faith was wrong, but it felt thin and unsatisfying, lacking the vivid honesty that had drawn him to Jesus in the first place. This memoir follows his search for a richer, more substantial Christianity. He describes the unease that gathered in midlife and the sense that the Jesus he trusted deserved a more compelling kind of faith than the one he had practised. The story is anchored in the New Testament account of the wedding at Cana, where the wine runs out and Zahnd finds himself asking for a miracle.

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