One reader wrote:

"Cindy, I just finished your book. By far, it is, hands down the very best resource I have EVER read on this topic. I literally want to send it to everybody. I am going to tell my counselors about it too - both books. There is only one book that has ever spoken to my heart and life more than yours, and it's the Bible..."

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“An Extraordinary Ordinary Life” is an inspiring chronicle of the author’s life from her lonely growing-up years in a broken home in suburbia to a radical spiritual transformation as a teenager. She humbly shares how God has led her through a host of unique and trying circumstances in the years since, including the 20 years she endured in an abusive marriage.

Be inspired as Cindy recounts times she has felt His promptings, witnessed true-to-life miracles and been awed to hear God’s warm, inaudible voice. “An Extraordinary Ordinary Life” tempts the reader to fall in love with the wondrous God who seeks to transform our ordinary lives into ones that are truly extraordinary.

If you have any doubts as to what verbal, emotional, spiritual and sexual abuse in a "Christian" marriage looks like, then please read Kelly Orr's story.  Prepare to be shocked and horrified, not only by what she endured, but by the diminishing and unbelievably insensitive, cruel responses she received from fellow believers, pastors and counselors.

I pray God blesses Kelly for her transparency, and may hearts and minds be opened to the dark reality of the kinds of abuse that exist in approximately 20 percent of what are presumed to be Christian homes.

In our endeavors to be accepting, we have unwittingly become a church that accommodates wickedness, both in our homes and in the body itself.  In "Wise as Serpents" Pastor Crippen offers us a powerful refresher course on what Scripture teaches - how evil operates, and what we can do about it.