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Nicky Cruz
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Pages: 360 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0882706306
Pub: Bridge Pub Inc
Pub date: 1994-12-31
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 454461
Reader Reviews:
Required Reading! (0/0 people found this helpful)
I read this book when I was a young teenager/young Christian along with The Cross & The Switchblade and Corrie Ten Boom's account of surviving the holocaust. Three great books which I am now trying to persuade my teenage daughters to read. More importantly I am buying "Run Baby Run" for my 17 year old nephew who has a major struggle with drugs. He was brought up in the church but has strayed big time, but God doesn't let go - so much so that his bedroom, aka "drug den" was gutted by a fire, leaving the rest of the house intact bar some smoke damage! This book should be required reading for all teenagers in London and other inner cities. Why not but a copy for someone you know. They don't have to give their lives to Christ, but giving up a knife could save a life.
Another book to give away! (0/0 people found this helpful)
I have read this book, many times, along with Cross and the Switchblade, and more recently Soul Obsession.
In the last few years we have used many of these books in prison work. It is a very readable book that can connect with many.
An excellent book telling the story of a real man with a life turned around by a dramatic encounter with God.
from gang leader to christ (0/0 people found this helpful)
The story of a mans complete change of life.From gang leader to leading others to christ
Crime Pays (9/9 people found this helpful)
The first half of Nicky Cruz's harrowing personal account of growing up as a feared New York gang leader will not seem a typical testimony of finding God, nor should it. It is violent, graphic, as gritty and real as they come and at times even hard to read in it's intensity. It will entertain even fans of gangster films: images from certain passages of this book have stayed with me since my childhood when I first read them. But all the more powerful comes the message of the latter of the book as Cruz reforms his life through a chance encounter with a preacher. This may seem a 'typical' ending for a religious book, but his journey to that point is a revelation in Christian literature, and should not be overlooked by any means. An incredible account, and a great book.
An amazing read! (7/7 people found this helpful)
I found this book to be truly inspirational!
I don't find it particuarly easy to read a book from cover to cover but with "Run baby run" I just couldn't put it down. I would find myself at all different times in the day just glued to it!
Nicky Cruz's conversion is truly an amazing one. It truly is very encouraging and demonstrates the need of having the Holy Ghost i.e. having the power to live a christian life etc.
I would give this 10/10, it definately exceeded expectations.
Check out "The Cross and the Switchblade" for the perspective of David Wilkerson - the minister who was instrumental in Nicky Cruz's turnaround. This is incredible too!
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