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The Chair

A Novel

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The Chair

By: James L. Rubart
Narrated by: James L. Rubart
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If you were given an ancient-looking chair and told Jesus Christ made it, would you believe it? When an elderly lady shows up in Corin Roscoe's antiques store and gives him a chair she claims was built by Christ, he scoffs. But when a young boy is miraculously healed after sitting in the chair, he stops laughing and starts to wonder: Could this chair heal the person whose life I destroyed twelve years ago? As word spreads of the boy's healing, a mega-church pastor is determined to manipulate Corin into turning over the chair. But the mysterious woman who gave him the piece insinuates it is Corin's destiny to guard the chair above everything else. But why? Desperate, he turns to the one person he can trust, a college history professor who knows more about the legend of the chair than he reveals. Searching for the truth about the artifact and the unexplained phenomena surrounding it, Corin soon realizes he isn't the only one willing to do almost anything to possess the power that seems to surround the chair. Christian Fiction Christian Living Christianity Fiction Genre Fiction
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The Chair is a contemporary novel that is based on the premise that there still exists a chair made by Jesus of Nazareth and that it possesses miraculous healing power. It is a fascinating idea that might have been better served with a more polished writing style. As it is, the novel is a page-turner, easy to listen to and surprisingly undemanding given the subjects covered.

It is read by the author and he does a good job, although his cartoonish accent does lend the novel a light-heartedness that is at odds with the serious issues involved, such as disability, crippling phobias, loss of faith, betrayal, occultic motives, supernatural powers and religious icons.

The main Christian theme is restoration, but other themes include the miraculous power of Christ, doubt/rejection of Jesus, God healing someone’s soul rather than their broken body, joy and sorrow, forgiveness and the deep wedge brought by bitterness and unforgiveness.

Easy listening. Interesting premise.

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