Faithful Exiles: Finding Hope in a Hostile World

How do we live by faith when we're far from home?

More than a simple fight-or-flight response, the authors ofFaithful Exiles offer us hope when we're far from home. Gleaning courage and insight from biblical characters in both the Old and New Testaments, they consider how God's people through the ages have been faithful in the face of hostility. They show how those with hope beyond this world can be faithful in it.

Ch 1: Exile Begins (Adam and Eve) | Jairo Namnún

Ch 2: Contending as Exiles (Abraham) | Glen Scrivener

Ch 3: Hope as Exiles (Sarah) | Keri Folmar

Ch 4: Holiness as Exiles (Moses) | Shane Morris

Ch 5: Worship as Exiles (David) | Ken Mbugua

Ch 6: Politics as Exiles (Daniel) | Stephen McAlpine

Ch 7: Missions as Exiles (Jonah) | Elliot Clark

Ch 8: Prayer as Exiles (Anna) | Megan Hill

Ch 9: Preaching as Exiles (John the Baptist) | Miguel Núñez

Ch 10: Apologetics as Exiles (Jesus and the Samaritan woman) | Claude Atcho

Ch 11: Vocation as Exiles (Aquila and Priscilla) | Jay Y. Kim

Ch 12: Church as Exiles (Timothy) | Alex Duke

Ch 13: Suffering as Exiles (Peter) | Blair Linne

Ch 14: Exile Ends | Brett McCracken

Ivan Mesa (PhD candidate, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is editorial director for The Gospel Coalition. He’s editor of Before You Lose Your Faith: Deconstructing Doubt in the Church. He and his wife, Sarah, have four children, and they live in eastern Georgia.

Elliot Clark served in Central Asia as a cross-cultural church planter along with his wife and children. He now travels around the world to equip church leaders and support residential missionaries. He is the author of Evangelism as Exiles: Life on Mission as Strangers in Our Own Land and Mission Affirmed: Recovering the Missionary Motivation of Paul.