Walking on the Edge of Eternity

De: Linda H. Wicks

Narrado por: Natalie Brouwer

Be challenged and inspired as you listen to this gripping true story of a prisoner turned pastor, serving His God and countrymen in war-torn Ukraine. Despite the very real danger to himself and his family, Zhenia took food to the starving people in front-line villages, brought VBS to their children, and ministered to the Ukrainian soldiers. He dodged bombs, drones and gunfire to serve the Lord, often living, as he described it, "on the edge of eternity."

This book is a thriller, but also a faith-builder, as you see how mightily God is working in and through this devastating war in Ukraine. He is bringing tens of thousands into His Kingdom. No one is telling this story, and you need to hear of His miraculous deeds and abundant harvest!

This is the story of one Ukrainian man who becomes possessed by the Spirit of God and divinely obsessed with His work. But it is also the story of two American congregations, whose God-ordained partnership with this man kindles a Gospel flame that spreads like a prairie fire across the dark and war-torn country of Ukraine. Linda Wicks has given us the fascinating account of her son in the faith, Zhenia, who went from being Satan's perpetrator to God's pastor. I needed to listen to this book as it has encouraged my faith in the continuous, miraculous work of Jesus, but also in the necessity and privilege of intercessory prayer. You need to listen to this book too. God's fingerprints are all over this story!

©2024 Linda H. Wicks (P)2025 Linda H. Wicks

Upper story faithfulness

Reading this story, I was struck by how fragile our world is and yet how antifragile the gospel remains. The lower story of Ukraine is one of chaos: bombs, drone attacks, homes broken, lives disrupted. But through that noise runs the upper story, quiet yet unshakable, where faith takes root in the cracks. This book does not gloss over tragedy; it stares it in the face and insists that the darkness is not ultimate, only temporal. What emerges is not a tidy narrative but something closer to a jagged uncertainty. Zhenias presence is itself an argument, not a syllogism but an embodied apologetic: that Christ is faithful in all circumstances.