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The Luckiest Man

How a Seventeen-Year Battle with ALS Led Me to Intimacy with God

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The Luckiest Man

How a Seventeen-Year Battle with ALS Led Me to Intimacy with God

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About The Luckiest Man Book

How do you experience God's intimate, comforting, tangible presence? In The Luckiest Man, John Paine reveals how he found the answer to this most important of all questions--by facing a terminal diagnosis.

At middle age, John Paine thought he knew what it meant to have a relationship with God. He was a successful businessman, a well-respected Christian leader, a Bible teacher, and--outwardly, at least--the spiritual leader of his family. He was satisfied and thought he understood what it meant to know and experience God. But did he?

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John's journey into true, mystical intimacy with God began when a neurologist diagnosed him with ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, and said, "Go home and get your affairs in order." Seventeen years later, John tells his story, recounting the ways God intervened in his life, freeing him from all that prevented intimacy with God, even as John slipped into pain, paralysis, and further toward death.

In stunning, insightful prose, The Luckiest Man points to the God who lovingly, though occasionally painfully, drew John into the richness of friendship. In this profoundly moving memoir, John Paine reveals the secret to intimacy with God and provides hope to all who are in the middle of their own struggles. They, too, will understand why John considers himself the "luckiest man."

Praise for The Luckiest Man

“As I read through John's story in The Luckiest Man I felt my heart desiring to know God more intimately, to experience His love more deeply and to trust Him more fully. John's story of unexpected joy in his breaking is a fresh invitation into relationship with God our Father.”

Neil Tomba

“I cannot remember the last time God met me so deeply and spoke to me so profoundly through the pages of a book. John Paine's journey of the heart inspired me, and convicted me; only to surprise and delight me with multiple fresh encounters of God's great love for me.”

Chip Ingram

“You will weep, you will laugh, you will think, you will worship, and you will face yourself as you discover the blessings suffering has brought to John.”

Bill Lawrence

“John oozes with the sweetness of Jesus, not the irritation of the disease, because he has learned the secret of intimacy with God. He shares many truths and nuggets of how we can also practice and enjoy intimacy with the Creator. Anyone who reads this book will be blessed.”

Gay Lynn Horn

“The life and testimony of John Paine has been a tool in the hands of God. John’s grace and friendship in the continuing debilitation of ALS has allowed us to watch from the sidelines how and what God has taught him.”

Dr. Mark L. Bailey

“As John Paine, my friend and mentor since his diagnosis, has traveled a road far more challenging than most, he knows God and the ways of God - in amazing depth. Put John's book at the top of your 'must read' list.”

Don Stephens

“This is a beautiful, tender, courageous and inspiring story. Honestly, I take my shoes off. John is a hero of mine. I know you will love this book!”

John Eldredge

“Many books say something. Fewer books have something to say. John Paine has captured the essence of life.”

Mike Downey

“John Paine's testimony and connection to God is one that will touch lives for generations to come! I consider myself "lucky" that I was able to learn from John's experiences. You will walk away from this book with renewed perspective, a beautiful outlook on life and a desire to share the book with everyone you know.”

Katie Norris

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