The Axe Laid to the Root, Fred Pruitt s second book, immediately plumbs to the final depths of personal spirituality in Christ. Though it seems to start as a simple exposition of scripture and a reiteration of basic Christian theology, it soon becomes far more than that. The book develops into a profound spiritual tome, evoking not only an expansion of our conceptual understanding of salvation through Jesus Christ and the Cross, but even more so hits a central nerve in each of us, by putting into words the realities of every believer s deep inner spiritual struggles, articulating the unspoken...