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Of Judgement and Of Mercy
Paperback
Christian FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher Price: $16.99
Publisher: Spirit Media Inc
Published: Nov 20 2025
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
ONE TICKET. ONE COMPROMISE. EVERYTHING CHANGES.
Phil Gunn lives a simple life in a small trailer beside the river. He works the afternoon shift at the mill, eats the same breakfast at the same café he has visited since he was twelve, and gives what he has to his family. His savings never seem to grow, because between tithes, offerings, and helping the people he loves, there is never much left. Phil is a born-again Christian who reads his Bible every day and asks God to show him where to read.
THE PULL OF WHAT IF
One ordinary morning, Phil feels a yearning he cannot explain: to buy a lottery ticket. His pastor preaches against gambling, and Phil knows it would be wrong. But what if he won? He tells himself he would share the wealth. So the thought becomes a plan, and the plan becomes reality. That evening his daily Scripture reading leaves him puzzled for the first time, and a strange dread settles over him. He resolves never to buy another ticket. Then, after his shift, he checks the numbers. He has won one hundred seventy-nine million dollars.
A FRIEND WITH A PLAN
The first person Phil calls in the middle of the night is his best friend, George. George and his wife, Marge, rush over, and the three set out to celebrate. But Marge has never liked Phil, and her reasons run deep, rooted in a painful past of loss, humiliation, and a brother who squandered everything. Now she sees a way to take what she believes life has denied her. As the friends drive through the dark, Marge closes her eyes, not to sleep, but to scheme. Phil will never spend a dime if she has her way.
FAMILY, FAITH, AND A FORTUNE
Phil's world is full of people who matter to him: an aging mother who has her heart set on an old house in town, a sister finishing medical school, and a brother, Jonathon, who came back from the Vietnam War and was lost to the streets of Oakland. Phil has long dreamed of what he could do for them. Suddenly he can do it all. Yet the fortune arrives through a door he opened against his own convictions, and the consequences of that choice are only beginning to unfold.
A STORY OF CONSEQUENCES AND GRACE
Set among small towns, early-morning diners, and long night drives toward Boise, Of Judgement and Of Mercy is a Christian novel about what happens when a good man compromises what he believes. It explores temptation, greed, envy, and the quiet ways the enemy gains a foothold, while holding out the hope that God's mercy reaches further than our mistakes.
A HEART FOR OTHERS
Even before he knows he has won, Phil's daydreams turn to tithes and offerings, to buying his mother the house she loves, and to the people who have always depended on him. His generosity is genuine. That is what makes the trap around him so dangerous.
READERS WILL FIND
A warm, small-town cast with humor and heart at the breakfast table. A hero whose daily faith is real and whose stumble is all too human. A villain whose bitterness has a history. And a story that asks a searching question: what does a single compromise cost, and can mercy still find us on the other side of judgement?
Written for readers of faith-based stories who enjoy suspense, family drama, and a clear spiritual message, this is a tale of judgement and of mercy that will stay with you long after the final page.
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