"I have known Melanie Rainer for many years as a colleague, writer, Bible teacher, and student of scripture. Her affection for God’s word, fascination with its history, amazement at its intricacies, and personal experience with its life-changing good news about the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus make her one of my most trusted people to turn to when I want to better understand what I am reading. If she doesn’t already know the answer to my question, her tenacious curiosity will hunt it down, and there will be wonder in the way she tells it. Here she brings that same reverence, scholarship, wonder, and joy to some of the New Testament’s most instructive epistles, and the result is a Biblically solid yet highly accessible resource for kids to get to know God better."
- Russ Ramsey, pastor and author of Rembrandt is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
"Melanie's passion for the Gospel (and for making sure that younger generations can understand it) is evident on each page of this wonderful study companion for youth! What a gift to the church!"
- Stephanie Staples-Rostad, singer, songwriter, itinerant minister of music
"Paul's letters are a rich theological gift, as helpful today as when he wrote them nearly 2,000 years ago. In Unstoppable Joy, Melanie Rainer works alongside Paul to help kids understand the Gospel gifts of God as they learn how to live as children of God. I can't wait to share Melanie's work with my niece and nephews."
- Becky Kiern, author of Our Light and Life: Identity in the Claims of Christ and Let Earth Receive Her King
