Seminary Dropout 132: Jonathan Martin, Author of "How to Survive a Shipwreck: Help Is on the Way and Love Is Already Here"

Jonathan Martin is a writer, speaker, and dreamer currently living in Tulsa, OK, where he serves as Teaching Pastor at Sanctuary Church. He holds degrees from Gardner-Webb University, The Pentecostal Theological Seminary, and Duke Divinity School. He is the author of Prototype: What Happens When You Discover You're More Like Jesus Than You Think? He is a product of the "Christ-haunted landscape" of the American South, sweaty revivals, and hip-hop. . He loves to talk about the beauty of God, what an extraordinary thing it is to be called God's beloved, and finding new ways to be human. His new book is called "How to Survive a Shipwreck: Help Is on the Way and Love Is Already Here" How to Survive a Shipwreck: Help Is on the Way and Love Is Already Here Life is turbulent. On that, we can all agree. Disappointed dreams, broken relationships, identity crises, vocational hang-ups, wounds from the past—there are so many ways life can send us crashing up against the rocks. In this deeply personal book, Jonathan Martin draws from his own stories of failure and loss to find the love that can only be discovered on the bottom. How to Survive a Shipwreck is an invitation to trust the goodness of God and the resilience of your soul. Jonathan's clarion call is this: No matter how hard you've fallen, no matter how much you've been hurt, help is on the way—just when you need it most. With visionary artistry and pastoral wisdom, Jonathan Martin reveals what we'll need to make it through those uncharted waters, how we can use these defining experiences to live out of our depths, and why it will then become impossible to go back to the half-life we once lived. -From the Publisher Our Sponsor: Reading for the Common Good: How Books Help Our Churches and Neighborhoods Flourish If you liked this episode then you might also like… Seminary Dropout 60: Shauna Niequist Seminary Dropout 131: Brian Zahnd Author of "Water to Wine: Some of My Story" Subscribe/Rate/Review Seminary Dropout in iTunes *links to guest books or other products are affiliate links