Title: Rapture Practice Author: Aaron Hartzler Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Publication Date: April 9, 2013 ISBN-13: 978-0316094658 400 pp. ARC provided by publisher Aaron Hartzler is a good kid. He loves Jesus. He honors his mother and father. He doesn't go to movies or listen to rock music. He believes with all his heart that Jesus will return in the Second Coming and the faithful will fly up to heaven to meet Him in the Rapture. And then Aaron becomes a teenager. Rapture Practice is a memoir by Aaron Hartzler , the son of a preacher man, who learns that belief needs to come from yourself and not from your parents. I get Aaron Hartzler. I grew up in a Catholic family that switched to evangelical Christian when I was 12. My parents weren't as strict as Aaron's. We went to movies. We owned a television. But we prayed in restaurants before eating our meals. There was a big family meeting when my parents wanted to throw out my comic...
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