THE BOOKS
Letters of Hope: Surviving, Thriving, and Sharing Strength ISBN-089098274-0
LETTERS OF HOPE is the story of encouragement and godly courage which Gray eventually discovered during adversity. This book strengthens those dealing with extended struggle such as cancer treatments. Because Lynette began her journey feeling fearful, she’s best qualified to provide a banquet of spiritual, mental, physical, and emotional fortification.
She calls us to walk with Bible people who struggled. She furnishes hope from how they were doubtful, then improved, enlightened, or transformed. She helps us gather blessings like manna---daily, thankfully, with our eyes on the Giver. Lynette soothes us with Scriptures, songs, and prayers. She bolsters us with stories. She instructs us with scientific studies and dietary recommendations. From odd places, Lynette provides the laughter strugglers need.
One reader says of Letters of Hope, “I didn’t want her book to end, because I found so much hope in it.” From M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Chaplain Virgil Fry praises Lynette’s book as a unique gift on how to do “creative survival” and how to grab hope.
Feasting on Assurance: A Fresh Anthology of Communion Contemplations ISBN-978-1-60458-011-2
After setting the stage, Gray discusses what’s meant by “the fullness of time” and how God purposefully chose the event, the place, and way to make us His heirs. Each of her book’s 13 chapters is enriched with four communion contemplations written by such men as Stan Mitchell, Jim Gardner, Harold Savage, John Gipson, Billy Smith, and Bruce McLarty. Readers go on a calendar countdown toward Calvary and see Christ’s agony on the cross.
Gray’s chapter on our baptism into Calvary contains assurances from Philip Slate, Jim Miller, Dan Chambers, and Neal Pollard. She explores what the crucifixion accomplished and looks afresh at the Redeemer’s resurrection. Using eye-opening quotes, poems, and hymns, Gray discusses how communion helps us examine ourselves, be fortified, and have multi-dimensional hope. Words from Stafford North, Aubrey Johnson, Jack Lewis, Dale Jenkins, Chuck Morris, George Funk, and Andy Baker assist us in fulfilling the purposes of communion. Currently, this book is out of print. Look for its next printing.