title: Shock the Wheat: Helping Jesus Seek and Save the Lost
author: G. Jack Wren
description: Jack Wren is a native Kentuckian and a graduate of Southern Seminary. For over fifty years he served as pastor in churches in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, and Texas. He has written devotional for newspapers for many years. Now retired, he and his wife, Jan, live in Bryan/College Station, Texas.
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  The Last Ditch
  
  
  
  Matthew Willis
  
  
  
  
  
  
  (C) Matthew Willis 2021.
  
  
  
  Matthew Willis has asserted his rights under the Copyright, Design and Patents
  Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work.
  
  
  
  First published in 2021 by Sharpe Books.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Table of Contents
  
  
  
  [ The Calm ](text00003.html#_Toc66445054)
  
  [ The Storm ](text00004.html#_Toc66445055)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Calm
  
  
  
  27 July 1942
  
  The hook caught the Jesus Christ-wire, snapping the excuses out of Edmund’s
  head. A lance of pain and he was holding hot, salty blood in his mouth, half
  his tongue incandescent.
  
  The Hurricane’s tailwheel thudded onto the deck and Edmund swallowed the
  blood. Remembered to throttle back. Jesus, what just happened? The barrier had
  been right in front of him, he’d been hurtling towards it as the Hurricane
  floated over the wires and-
  
  Of course. The PO must have lowered it at the last second. He breathed out
  through his nose, swallowed more of the fluid iron-salt puddling below his
  tongu