Roll Away the Stone: A Journey of Faith and Forgiveness
What do you do when life forces you to face questions that easy answers cannot solve?
Roll Away the Stone: A Journey of Faith and Forgiveness is a true story about walking through uncertainty, difficult decisions, forgiveness, and the search for meaning when the path forward is anything but clear.
Mark and Katharine Edwards share a deeply personal journey through seasons of success and disappointment, obedience and doubt, hope and renewal. Their story explores what happens when life pushes you to confront the deeper questions many people quietly carry.
Can faith still hold when the future feels uncertain?
As their journey unfolds, readers see how courage often means taking the next step before clarity appears. Through real experiences—moments of loss, hard decisions, unexpected provision, and the difficult work of forgiveness—the Edwards discover that faith is not built in comfort, but in the willingness to keep walking when the answers are not yet visible.
What begins as a personal story becomes a journey into questions many readers wrestle with:
• How do you move forward when life doesn't unfold the way you expected?
• How do you forgive when past wounds still shape the present?
• How do you keep going when the path ahead feels uncertain?
• Where do you find hope when answers seem out of reach?
Throughout their story, forgiveness emerges not as a simple solution, but as a turning point—one that allows faith, healing, and purpose to move forward.
Roll Away the Stone is not a theoretical book about belief. It is an honest account of discovering whether trust in God can endure through real life—through struggle, perseverance, and the courage to keep moving forward.
Whether you are confident in your faith, wrestling with difficult questions, or simply searching for meaning in a complicated world, this story offers a powerful reminder:
Sometimes the greatest breakthroughs begin when we choose to roll away the stone that stands between where we are and where God is leading us.
About the Authors
Mark D. and Katharine C. Edwards are church planters, Bible teachers, and global missionaries. They’ve pastored churches for 30 years and ministered in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Mark holds a ThM from Dallas Theological Seminary and a marketing degree from Virginia Tech. Before entering ministry full-time, he owned a successful real estate development company. Katharine is a Virginia Tech English graduate and studied theology at DTS. They live in Wake Forest, NC, and have two children and a granddaughter.
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"Roll Away the Stone is a real page turner and sleep thief! Despite continually telling myself I would stop at the end of a chapter, I didn’t stop until the last sentence was read.
Set aside time to read large chunks at one sitting. Roll Away the Stone is too riveting, mesmerizing, shocking, and poignant to set down once you start reading.
In this roller coaster ride of towering highs and crushing lows, there is something for every reader – from the curious inquirer to the new disciple to the lifelong servant of God. Roll Away the Stone is a scripture-based instruction manual on how to live by faith in a challenging world as the connection between the harshness of life and providential provision becomes abundantly clear through the stunning authenticity of God.”
Mark S.