FRETTING AND FAILURE
ARE NOT YOUR
ONLY OPTIONS.
Consider Job’s story.
Even the best of times didn’t prepare him for the worst of times. Your own story is as unique a blend of joys and sorrows, coincidences or consequences - deserved and undeserved - and life’s next test is imminent... so study up now!
The book of Job provides insights on how to handle success, survive hardship, and live life to the fullest without losing one’s faith. In When Life Meets the Soul, Ivan D. Parke carefully unpacks Job’s turbulent journey, offering a user-friendly approach in this guide on how to live an honest, open and faith-filled life, especially in troublesome times.
“We will never understand everything that happens in our lives. When Life Meets the Soul gives practical insights needed when we walk through the “dark nights of the soul.”
-- Gary Chapman, PhD, New York Times bestselling author of The Five Love Languages
Dr. Ivan D. Parke
Ivan D. Parke, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Christian Studies at Mississippi College where he has taught since 1998. His areas of expertise are Biblical Studies and Biblical Hebrew. Parke’s love for the Old Testament began in graduate school, eventually leading him to the wisdom books (Proverbs and Job) and culminating with his dissertation, “The Literary Role of the Yahweh Speeches in the Book of Job.”
Prior to being a professor, Parke was a pastor in Alabama and a minister of youth in Florida and Louisiana. He still serves the local church as a Bible study leader, retreat speaker, and supply preacher. He has also been the interim pastor at twelve Mississippi churches.
When Life Meets the Soul is Parke’s second book. In 2004, he and Larry Garner coauthored Reclaiming the Real Jesus.
Parke and his wife Mary Ann live in Jackson, Mississippi. They have two grown children. When he is not writing, teaching, or preaching, he enjoys yardwork, exercising, music and sports.