Shaun Nepstad is the founder and pastor of Fellowship Church in California. Mr. Nepstad's book, Don't Quit In The Dip, is about the experience of trials and how these trials can be used to help those around us.

Mr. Nepstad's message is encouraging. He reminds us that God is always with us and He is always working in each situation and trials we are facing. Mr. Nepstad tells of many Scriptural stories of individuals who faced challenges and how God walked and worked through that situation with that person.

In this time, when this world has been thrown into uncertainty and we are all in a dip, the message of this book encourages us to continue forward, lean on God, and trust in Him.

I would encourage you to pick up this book. The message will uplift and encourage you.

Happy Reading!



Note: I have received a copy of this book from Hachette Books in exchange for an honest review. #SponsoredByFaithWords

Pastor Shaun Nepstad shares about the ups and mostly downs of life – what he calls “the dip” – and how God makes it possible for His children to not give up and to grow in many ways when the dips in life come. In a winsome and self-effacing manner, Nepstad shares all of the trials and challenges of starting a brand-new church when he was fresh out of college. As one might imagine, there were a lot more dips than highs in the early years of his ministry, but each trial and setback was always an occasion to learn from mistakes, as well as to see the faithfulness and incredible timing of God to bring good things out of troublesome circumstances.

People without Christ face as many dips in life as Christians, but non-believers do not have the resources available to Christians, and so many give up and stay in the dip for months or years. Christians can easily succumb to the difficulties of a fearful and defeatist attitudes like the rest of the world, but with a willingness to humble themselves before God and to seek for His help, a hope can be ignited in the heart of any believer who is willing to use whatever little faith they have and then see God go to work.

The dips in life can be personal, vocational, relational, financial, medical and spiritual. This book is very clear in communicating that these dips are not perhaps all due directly to sin on the part of the believer, but the Bible never promised that life for followers of God would be easy and successful in worldly terms. But believers can be sure that God sees every event in the lives of His children, and can use even the biggest and most prolonged dips to redeem and strengthen His people. For Nepstad, the bottom line is that if a person is in God and is not yet dead, then God has not and will not give up on us, and we should not give up our hope in God. A recommended book for those looking for assurance of the goodness and faithfulness of God.

You might feel like you've been backed into a corner and it seems there is no way out. Nepstad encourages you to see from God's perspective. Don't quit, he says, God's got a way to see you through.

Nepstad uses personal stories and ones from the Bible to illustrate his teaching. He encourages you to pray, to trust Jesus is seeing your condition and knows what is happening to you. He also knows your real need. Run to Him, not away from Him. Don't settle. Believe God will give you the wisdom to get out of the dip.

My favorite chapter was “God Uses Everything.” If you've done any baking, you know the individual ingredients of a dessert may taste terrible. Combined, however, they create a food with a wonderful taste. Nepstad relates that to life. If you look at just one event in your life, it may not have been very enjoyable. But God uses all the events of our life to make a masterpiece. You might have to be sifted. You might have to stay in the oven until you're done but people will be lined up to hear what God has done in your life. (Loc. 1527/2828)

This book contains good encouragement. It contains some humor and interesting information about hamsters too. There were no questions to journal nor suggestions for group discussion included in the egalley I read.

I received a complimentary egalley of this book from the publisher. My comments are an independent and honest review.