Many of the books we review
in this journal are highly technical, detailed responses to the
challenges of atheists and skeptics. The idea of this book is to give
simple, brief explanations designed to sow seeds of faith which will,
hopefully, grow into gigantic trees able to support life’s choices and
struggles. Since the mustard seed is a very small seed, it is ideal to
represent the problem we all face--our faith is not what we want it to
be, but even a very small faith can do wonderful things in life. This
book’s objective is to generate seeds of faith. Dr. Eichman asks 13
questions in the book, each making up a chapter. The questions are ones
young people ask: “What is faith?” “Is there evidence that the Bible is
inspired?” “Who is God?” “Who is Jesus?” “Who is the Holy Spirit?” “Who
am I?” “Why is there pain?” “What about death?” The explanations are
clear, easy to understand, and handled well.