Carolyn Cote Livres

Two Trees Revealed exposes in stunning clarity what drives us. Each and every day, we choose to do things based on which has the final say in our life or death. Just as Adam and Eve had a choice between the Tree of Life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, so we too make that choice. Will we be a slave to our knowledge of good and evil or will we serve Christ? Two Trees Revealed takes each and every person who has chosen life through Christ on an enlightening journey back to their beginnings. Many started out well only to find themselves depressed, anxious and burned-out. Some who entered full-time ministry would leave if they could. Others find sin has power over them in ways they would have never imagined possible. In her heart-to-heart, contemplative style, Carolyn Cote takes her readers on an unlearning path through three gardens. Garden One reveals why our knowledge of good and evil leads to death. Garden Two takes us through the Bible in search of others who have relied on their knowledge of good and evil over Christ. Finally, Garden Three settles us at the feet of Christ, the Tree of Life, where we can truly find life. "So Jesus said to them again, 'The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly."' John 10:10 NASB

If the future generation of Christians has been fed on milk-soaked Twinkies, Assenting to the Eternal: Kingdom Exchanges Revealed is distinguished as free-range meat with a side of organic carrots and potatoes. It's health-food for the believer's spirit. It's oil for their long-enduring lamps and a blanket of comfort for the cold nights they lie waiting for their Bridegroom. Christ gave everything needed to overcome the world; not by taking us out of the world but by the protection God gives us from the one who comes to steal, kill and destroy our ability to rise above the offerings of a perishing realm into a realm where the structure of the Kingdom of God is found and lived within.

Exploring the profound choices that shape our lives, this book draws parallels between the biblical narrative of Adam and Eve and contemporary decisions. It emphasizes the daily struggle between embracing life through faith in Christ and being enslaved by the knowledge of good and evil. Through this lens, readers are invited to reflect on their own motivations and the fundamental choices that define their existence.