Subtitled The Remaking of Moses, this book offers encouragement for
the hurting and the heartbroken.

The Bible says that no prophet emerged from Israel like Moses. He knew God face-to-face,
and indeed he was called a "friend of God." This is high praise for somebody who spent his first forty
years as a nobody.

But how did Moses become a somebody?

He did it through trial and error, through his failures and God's forgiveness. The Lord refined and remade
Moses by giving him many "second chances."

God works in our lives the same wayHe's still giving away "second chances." The Lord wants to remake
us. His goal for us is not a trouble-free life or a prosperous existence. God's goal is transformationchange
from the basic raw product to a faithful, obedient, and refined disciple of Jesus Christ.

Such transformation takes time. It takes buffing. It requires abrasives. Sometimes it's painful. But God knows
just what it takes to get us there. He did it with Moses, and He can do it with us. What we need in the midst
of life's baffling and bewildering experience is not an explanation, but just a deeper understanding of The God
of Second Chances.

DR. DON BAKER is a Minister at Large for the Conservative Baptist Association of America. He travels extensively in the United States and abroad ministering in churches and missionary conferences. Dr Baker has pastored churches, in Oregon, California and Illinois for more than thirty-eight years. He presently resides with his wife, Martha, in West Linn, Oregon. His books include Beyond Forgiveness, Beyond Choice, Beyond Rejection, and Thank-You Therapy.

Raymond Todd is an actor-director in the theater, a poet, a jazz trombonist, and a documentary filmmaker who lives in New York.