Danger Calling: True adventures of risk and faith by Peb Jackson and James Lund
This book is 214 pages made up of 16 short stories divided into four sections each having a main theme. Section one is named “Sacrifice”, section two “”Perseverance”, section three “Courage”, and section four “Leadership”.
The book is fast paced and thought provoking, written in an easy to read and vivid style that helps you to see in your mind the beauty and danger in each story. The stories ranged from mountain climbing expeditions to sea voyages and even military operations. They spanned in date from around 1914 all the way up to around 2008.
The book is set up with questions and reflections at the end of each story (It seems like everyone is doing this kind of thing now a days.). I usually don’t read the questions at the end of each chapter in books like this that are set up for small group study but I found that many (not all) of the questions were challenging and helpful in some way.
Some of the stories that are contained in this book are well known and you may have already read or watched a movie or documentary giving a fuller account of the story but even if this is true the stories are well worth reading again.
What I did notice, and this is true of a lot of books like this, is that the scriptures given are sometimes pulled out of context or stretched to fit the stories better. This is a failure in my opinion. It’s far better to just not quote scripture than to stretch the text but the stories and questions (most of the questions) aren’t really based in any text of scripture so it was easy for me to just ignore those things that seemed a bit forced. I always say “reading a book is like eating fish. Eat the meat and spit out the bones”.
In the end this was a great book easy to read and really quite thought provoking. I would recommend this book to anyone.
