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Several years ago, THE Hero of Faithfulness revealed God wants to use YOUR life to display His grace & love.Now, ODDBALLS of the Bible continues to look through the pages of Scripture to see how God is always at work through the lives of ordinary-even obscure-men & women.From the Introduction of ODDBALLS of the Bible-An Oddball is the person who makes you stop as you are reading the Bible and blurt out, "Really, God? We really needed to know this person? And, we even needed to know this person-by name?"I want to know the stories and details of the Bible's Oddballs. After all, the Holy Spirit did inspire their one verse, one event, recorded-for-all-time-inclusion into the Bible, just as He did the volumes of chapters and verses devoted to the "stars."Of all the people and events He could have included in His Word, I want to know WHY God chose these regular and normal folk-people amazingly, sinfully, like you and me-to accomplish some remarkable things.ODDBALLS of the Bible will reveal how these men and women in God's Word will help YOU grow and live YOUR faith today! Steve Barckholtz is his own kind of ODDBALL. He has served as a pastor in Mammoth Lakes, CA, Elko, NV, and Hailey, ID. After leaving the parish ministry for a few years, he now serves as pastor at Clover Trinity Lutheran Church, Clover, ID, and St. John's Lutheran Church, Buhl, ID. Married to Wendy for almost 30 years, and father of Zane and Mallory, Steve spends his spare time umpiring High School and American Legion baseball. As only an umpire knows, "You have not truly lived until you have been hit in the face by a foul ball!"

- How many Christians are marking time, waiting for the last days of their life to play out? - How many Christians are passionlessly praying for the day they can "retire" to heaven? - Are YOU going through the motions wondering if YOUR life makes a difference? Hebrews 11 is filled with insight into the lives of Old Testament men and women who were anything but marking time until they died. More than insight into living out human faith, Hebrews 11 reveals the divine faithfulness of Almighty God! Through the lives of Abel, Enoch, Jephthah, and many others, God reveals His divine attributes at work in the lives of ordinary men and women like YOU. Even as Moses, Rahab, Gideon, and the rest of the Old Testament patriarchs struggled to live out their faith, God showed Himself over and over to be "THE Hero of Faithfulness"! Today, the same "Hero of Faithfulness" wants to reveal His divine attributes at work in YOUR life! God wants to use YOUR life to display His faithfulness! As you read "THE Hero of Faithfulness," you will discover more about how God's divine attributes are on display in YOUR life! After 20 years as a parish pastor serving congregations in Mammoth Lakes, CA, Elko, NV, and Hailey, ID, Steve Barckholtz left the parish ministry in 2012, to follow God's leading to pursue the vocation of a writer. This book is the first fruit of that following. Steve has been married to Wendy for 21 years. They have two children, Zane and Mallory. Along with their two cats, Bevo and Leon, the Barckholtz family resides in Hailey, Idaho.