Divine Nobodies: Shedding Religion to Find God (and the unlikely people who help you)

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What does a Hip-Hop artist, Waffle House waitress, tire salesman, and disabled girl have to do with discovering spiritual truth? What if embracing authentic Christianity is a journey of unlearning? Welcome to Jim Palmer's world!



Don Miller meets Anne Lamott meets Brian McLaren in this tale of shedding religion and plunging into uncharted depths of knowing God. Jim Palmer, emergent pastor, shares his compelling off-road spiritual journey and the unsuspecting people who became his guides.



"Perhaps God's reason for wanting me," writes Palmer, "is much better than my reason for wanting him. Maybe God's idea of my salvation trumps the version I am too willing to settle for. Seeing I needed a little help to get this, God sent a variety pack of characters to awaken me." For all those hoping there's more to God and Christianity than what they've heard or experienced, each chapter of Divine Nobodies gives the reader permission and freedom to discover it for themselves. Sometimes comical, other times tragic, at times shocking, always honest; Jim Palmer's story offers an inspiring and profound glimpse into life with God beyond institutional church and conventional religion.



"I am tempted to say that Jim Palmer could well be the next Donald Miller, but what they have in common, along with an honest spirituality and extraordinary skill as storytellers, is a unique voice . . . Divine Nobodies is a delight to read, and it was good for my soul to read it."
-BRIAN MCLAREN
Author of The Secret Message of Jesus



"You hold in your hands an amazing story of a broken man finding freedom in all the right places-in God's work in the lives of some extraordinarily ordinary people around him.You will thrill to this delightful blend of gut-wrenching honesty and laugh-out-loud hilarity, and in the end you'll find God much closer, the body of Christ far bigger and your own journey far clearer than you ever dreamed."
-WAYNE JACOBSEN
Author of Authentic Relationships

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Customer Reviews

Rating: - Radical, Biblical, Transformative
The Spirit of the living God always manages to break through the theological concrete poured by well-intentioned but misguided "professional" ministers to contain it. It cannot be contained. This is written for the disillusioned, the confused, the cynical, and the restless relentless but frustrated God-seekers among us. If you are certain there is a better way to your Creator, and would like to follow the story of one regular unspectacular but highly insightful pilgrim this is probably the book ... Read More
Rating: - Blessed Nobodies
I know it is completely cliché these days to attack the "established" church and all that goes along with it.We poor, dumb, seminary trained pastors just don't get it.We old denominational folks don't have a clue how things really are "out there."Yeah, okay, I know full well that much of what passes for Christianity and pastoral ministry is little more than religion management and not even very good religion management at that.It is neither Christian nor pastoral.I get it.I know all these ... Read More
Rating: - Divine NobodiesShedding Religion to Find God
I read this book in two sittings.It was funny with a terrific, life-changing message.I have recommended the book to several other people and they have all liked it.
Rating: - Excellent Read for Everyone
This book greatly helps ("helps" is an understatement) in teaching the important lessons of God's Word with regards to institutionalized Christianity (church); along Mr. Palmer's life journey, in each of his encounters with different children of God (who by the way all believe in Jesus as the son of God but they do not go to church), in each of his experiences he learned that church is NOT the only place to receive the full presence of Jesus.

Mr. Palmer also explains that in order to have ... Read More
Rating: - "Divine Nobodies in Wide Open Spaces"
Wow! Almost 40 reviews w/ 5 stars (as of the writing of this review)...that says it all! Jim Palmer has nailed what you are spiritually seeking on the head: "shedding religion (belief systems/doctrines) to find God (in relationship)". I got this book at the library (it sort of jumped off the shelf at me)...and I was taking so many notes on it, I gave up and went to my Christian bookstore and bought it! Then I received "Wide Open Spaces", his second book. Again, excellent. Repeatedly (and necessarily so), ... Read More