Life in the Wild

Dan DeWitt is one of this generation's most articulate and compelling writers. His keen insight brings clarity to some of life's most difficult questions. Everyone should read this book. | Life is wild, and by wild I don't mean awesome and fun. Life can be wildly tough. In Life in the Wild, Dan DeWitt teaches us why life is terrible at times and where to turn. But there's hope and you'll find our Hope shared in these pages! | This is exactly the book our culture needs right now. In this age when we're saturated with reminders that we live in a fallen world every time we turn on the news, Life in the Wild gives Christians a much-needed dose of perspective – and hope. | Life in the Wild is a refreshingly honest reminder of what it means to be living outside of Eden each day—the good, the bad, and the ugly. Dan DeWitt writes in a wonderfully unique way that captures the imagination while illuminating the reality of our human experience with remarkable clarity. Concise yet packed full of insights, Life in the Wild is that rare book that’s perfect for seekers and believers alike. | This world is full of unspeakable tragedy. The gospel contains unparalleled hope. Convinced of both realities, Dan DeWitt guides us through Genesis 3 with wit, warmth and wisdom. Let Life In The Wild show you afresh the depths of our fallenness and the heights of God's redeeming love. It will do your soul much good. | If you're trying to make sense of the wild times in which we live and thrive in the wild the world has become, Dan DeWitt's book is a hope-filled companion for the journey. We all recognize that something is wrong in us and around us. Life in the Wild helps us embrace the truth that even when we feel small, the Gospel is "big enough to make sense of sinkholes and shark bites." | Life in the Wild is a manifesto of hope in the midst of a hopeless world. When so much darkness surrounds us, Dan DeWitt extends a beautiful and biblical lifeline of light in the gospel. I wish every young Christian, seeker, or skeptic would pick up this book to find the hope we’re all looking for. | One look at Genesis 3 shows us the legacy of human rebellion: we are now exiles in the wilderness. Despite our thorny surroundings, Dan DeWitt offers an insightful, pastoral, and thoroughly biblical guide to thriving in the wilderness. "Life in the Wild" calls us to hope in Jesus, the Savior who will lead us back home to the garden. | With a brilliantly accessible mix of biblical theology, apologetics and culture, Life in the Wild is a book that will help people think through a biblical worldview. Dan does a wonderful job unpacking the Genesis story of humanity and how the gospel of Jesus is what we need to survive and make sense of the wild world we live in. As a church planting pastor, I will be eager to get this book in the hands of new believers, young christians, and discipling groups! | This is a fresh and urgent field guide to life in the real world — the world of brokenness, tragedy and disappointment. Dan DeWitt gives us not only clarity and realism, but also wonderful hope as he consistently and carefully points us to Christ. It did me good to read it! | In Life in the Wild Dan DeWitt gives us a survey of the biblical story that is steeped in theology, empathy, and hope. Read this to better understand all that went wrong in Eden. Read this to remind yourself of the hope that Eden will one day be restored. | Beautifully written, and with great insight into both the ideas of history and the contemporary mind, Dan DeWitt provides an exciting retelling of the glory, the desperation, and the hope of humankind. Many will gain wisdom for living “life in the wild” of this present world as they enjoy this work. Those who make the journey through its pages will learn that there is another Message that offers far more happiness than all the offerings of the messages of the Secular Age. This is a work of great joy. | Life in the Wild is the book I have been waiting for from Dan DeWitt. With great wit and theological depth he explores the effects of the fall ranging from guilt, shame, fear, faith, love, and redemption. At the turn of every page, the aroma of Christ is sweet. This work will make you laugh, weep, and shout for joy. | Living in our broken world, full of pain and disappointment and sin, is difficult for all of us. In Life in the Wild, Dan DeWitt reminds us that the mess we live in is, like us, awaiting a future redemption. Read along as Dan teaches us to navigate these challenges and anticipate the arrival of our perfect hope, Jesus, who will make an end of death and make his blessings flow far as the curse is found. | The book is accessible, short, written to engage someone skeptical or new to Christianity, and full of hope. Like the Bible, it’s book-ended with a discussion of Eden, as it was and as it will be when God restores this world. In the final chapter, which is on death, he writes, “God’s final enemy, death itself, has to die. . . . [T]he Bible makes it certain: one day death will be placed in a coffin. In the last act of human history, we will read death’s obituary” | Dan DeWitt is the Associate Professor of Apologetics and Applied Theology at Cedarville University, Ohio and Director of the Center for Biblical Apologetics and Public Christianity. He is the author of Life in the Wild and The Friend Who Forgives. Dan and his wife, April, have four young children. Dan blogs regularly at theolatte.com.