“Will Jesus Buy Me a Double-Wide (’Cause I Need More Room for My Plasma TV?”) takes to task a growing trend in some religious circles: that God wants you to prosper both financially and in health and that if you aren’t, something is wrong with your faith.

Columbus, Georgia native Karen Zacharias has nothing against trailers, or people who live in them.
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That’s the first thing she’d have you know.

She had her first kiss in a trailer, smoked her first (and last) cigarette in a trailer, asked Jesus into her heart in a trailer and gave birth to her first child in a trailer. So she has no qualms about taking up residence in one.

Rather, her latest book, “Will Jesus Buy Me a Double-Wide (’Cause I Need More Room for My Plasma TV?”) takes to task a growing trend in some religious circles: that God wants you to prosper both financially and in health and that if you aren’t, something is wrong with your faith.

“It’s a form of voodoo Christianity. You’re poking pins and hoping to get the results you want,” said Zacharias.

Of all her books, this latest one seems to have struck the biggest chord with readers, she said. It officially launched Tuesday at the Georgia Center for the Book in Atlanta. Representatives from Zondervan flew in.

“Double-Wide” is a blend of the humorous and tragic, both of which Southerners grasp well
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William Paul Young, author of “The Shack” has endorsed it, as has comedian Jeff Foxworthy and the Rev. Steve Brown of Florida, an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America who has a national radio show.

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