Author James David Parker's once thriving professional career was in a nosedive to disaster. His once-profitable investments dragged him to the precipice of financial ruin. The stress of the battle for survival wasted his will. Mental depression trashed his intellect. As a nominal, but skeptical, Christian, he asked: "Can Jesus rescue me? Will Jesus deliver me from my earthly hell?" And thus began his journey--a search for truth.

In The Fire Will Not Consume You--Isaiah 43:2b, Parker shares his progression from successful engineer to cynicism, to financial disaster and...