Christian Fiction
Date Published: January 31, 2022
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Purest Mercy is a Christian fiction novel about the extraordinary ways that
God can use the simplest, humblest people to achieve great miracles. In it,
we meet Mercy, a homeless teenager on the run from horrific circumstances,
who finds her place of belonging when she comes upon the Resurrection
Christian Mission Church, and its dedicated pastor, Rev. Bethany Lewis. RCMC
is a ministry specifically aimed at alleviating the difficulties and
struggles experienced by homeless people, but they are strapped to the
limit, and about to run out of food to serve the community…when Mercy’s
prayers result in a miraculous trove of food.
But the miracles are only just beginning. As Mercy’s prayers begin to
transform more and more lives with healing and hope, she falls in love with
David Mullins, a homeless youth she seems to know from Another Time and
Place. Mercy, David, and Bethany form a tight-knit family, drawn all the
closer when a younger girl, Amy, joins them off the streets.
Then, one night, during an intense ice storm, Amy is attacked and left for
dead at a nearby park…until Mercy finds her and, in a final act of
selflessness, literally takes on Amy’s wounds, receiving the stigmata just
as she loses consciousness. Frantically, Bethany gets the young people back
to the parsonage, where Mercy dies the following morning: Good Friday,
2013.
The family, and the Resurrection community, are heartsick over the shocking
loss. Until God, again through Mercy, proves to them once and for all that
even death cannot separate them from the Love–and Mercy–of the
Divine.
About the Author
Daniel Roberts is a retired pastor and Christian spiritual writer,
captivated by the mysterious ways God can use the simplest and humblest
vessels to achieve extraordinary results.
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