Nazareth Hardware

Nazareth, California, isn't the town from Sunday school—but it's trying to live up to the name. Eli Turner is a widowed hardware-store owner who'd rather fix what's broken than talk about his own grief. Sharon Pike is a county social worker who spends her days fighting for people the system keeps trying to overlook. Neither one is looking for the spotlight. Both of them are simply trying to be faithful in the small things. Then Rosa Rivera's little girl, Mari, needs a surgery the family can't afford—and her teenage son J. is one bad decision away from losing his footing for good. As a brutal summer brings heat waves, rolling blackouts, and a nearby wildfire, the town of Nazareth starts to strain at the seams. Tempers flare. Old wounds surface. And the people on the margins feel it first. In the middle of the smoke and sirens, three ordinary places become unlikely ground zero for mercy: a small brick Baptist church an exhausted City Hall office an old-fashioned hardware store with a coffee pot in the back As Eli, Sharon, and J. learn to pull in the same direction, God quietly weaves their separate strands into something stronger than any of them could manage alone. Nazareth Hardware: A Threefold Cord is a contemporary Christian novel about: Work as worship in a weary world Community that costs something—but gives even more A Savior who sees every unnoticed act of kindness If you enjoy character-driven stories, small-town settings, and everyday believers learning to walk by faith in the middle of real-life pressure, you'll feel at home in Nazareth. "And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken." — Ecclesiastes 4:12 (KJV)