Jeris E. Bragan

This book is about murderers, robbers, drug dealers, all kinds of criminals––criminals redeemed by God's grace. It is the story of men reached in prison by the gospel. In the words of its author, scandalous grace was written "to show God's grace in action, moving in contemporary time just as he did in the days of Joseph, Daniel, and Paul. It is about God in action, not about prison life as such. Prison is merely the setting were God acts, mediating his grace through people. "It was written in prison, in the midst of chaos, violence, and bloodshed, a place of overwhelming hopelessness and despair, a place were God's grace is experienced more personally and powerfully. God's grace is almost scandalous in depth and breadth their striking at those least deserving, breaking hearts, and changing lives in an environment where the daemonic is the norm, not the exception. I've written about public, full-time, hardened sinners––the kind of people Jesus seem to love most: the lost, the last, and the least." If you have ever doubted the power of God, you won't after reading this book.… (más)

Jerry, wake up! Wake up!" Darleen shouted.Jeris Bragan tried to shake the sleep from his mind."George is dead!" She hissed.Bragan jumped up from the sofa and ran the 40 yards to his private detective agency. His partner, George Urice, was lying in a pool of blood at the foot of the stairs. Blood drain from a deep gash over his eye and upper lip. His arms were twisted awkwardly beneath his body, his hands handcuffed behind his back.Frantically Bragan checked for signs of life, but he could detect no respiration, no pulse. His mind recoiled from the horrible reality. What happened to his friend?Police and prosecutors, seeing an opportunity to settle an old score with the 30–year–old private investigator, quickly zeroed in on Bragan as their suspect. 10 months later, after a bitterly contested, perjury-riddled trial, he was convicted of first–degree murder and sentenced to 99 years in the Tennessee state penitentiary, one of America's deadliest prisons.Trapped in a vortex of incomprehensible brutality and despair, Bragan's life was radically transformed when the power of God's grace broke through his prison walls.… (más)

Jeris Bragan and knows what it means to walk through a storm.Since September 15, 1977, he has lived literally in the "shadow of death" behind the walls of the Tennessee State Penitentiary, where he's serving a 99 year prison sentence for a murder he insists he did not commit.But despite being surrounded by walls, gun towers, and barbed wire, Reagan has discovered God's healing presence and promise for those who hurt.When You Walk Through a Storm is far more than glib answers and tired clichés about God's purpose in our pain. It offers genuine help for the hurting from someone uniquely qualified to write about faith under stress.… (más)