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Necessary Heartbreak

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An extraordinary journey back in time shows a struggling single dad that the faith heā€™s lost is still aliveā€”and stronger than ever. . . .

Michael Stewart has weathered his share of hardships: a troubled childhood, the loss of his mother, even the degradation of living on the city streets. Now heā€™s raising his teenaged daughter, Elizabeth, on his own and doing the best he can at work and at home. But heā€™s turned his back on his faithā€”that is, until the morning Michael and Elizabeth volunteer for a food pantry at their local church. While storing boxes in the basement, they step through a mysterious door . . . and find themselves in first-century Jerusalem during the tumultuous last week of Jesus Christā€™s life. It is a dangerous and violent place, where doing what your heart tells you is right can get you imprisonedā€”or worseā€”and they are thankful to take refuge with a kind widow. But when they come face-to-face with Judas Iscariot and the condemned Christ himself, Michael realizes that before they can escape Jerusalem, he must experience historyā€™s most necessary and shattering heartbreakā€”and that pain and loss must happen if Michael is to be set free: to live, love, and reclaim the blessings he has in the present day.