
This book is a rare gift. It pulses with story and theology, with lived suffering and quiet joy, with vast mysteries and a strong Savior. The question is not whether you can put it down–because that will be hard–but whether you have the good sense first to pick it up, and read.
-MARK GALLI, Editor in Chief, Christianity Today
Like the Gospels, Crossing the Waters is an immersive on-the-ground, in-the-water experience. Dramatic, wild—and wet, set in a rich maritime culture of Alaska and the Sea of Galilee.
Think of it as one giant float trip where we will see, smell, and taste the waters here as we purpose to follow Jesus.
Read ExcerptOnce you go under the water, you are never the same.
About the Book

Enter into the truest stories ever told, with expectant eyes and open ears.
Crossing the Waters takes Jesus’ command to make disciples seriously. As a Bible exegete, a lifelong follower of Jesus, an Alaskan commercial fisherwoman, and a masterful storyteller, Leslie takes readers on a wild, wet trek and sail through the gospels, asking and illuminating what it means to genuinely, wholeheartedly follow Jesus.
Water saturates the Scriptures, from the Spirit hovering over the waters, to the holy city of Revelation and the river flooding its streets, and so many places in between: streams in the desert, water from the rock, the well of living water, the mikveh, the gathering of the waters.
Sometimes we leave our nets to follow God. Other times we follow God by staying.
About the Author

LESLIE LEYLAND FIELDS is an award-winning author of nine books, a national speaker, a popular radio guest, and a 38-year commercial fisherwoman, working with her husband and six children in a salmon fishing operation on their own island off Kodiak Island, Alaska.
In Leslie’s Own Words
I understand something about Jesus’s voyages on the Sea of Galilee. In the midst of all these waters, I’ve been brought startlingly near to this man who claimed to be God. I want to bring you closer to see and experience for yourself.
I’ll take you from whatever fields, cities, or neighborhoods you live in, and we’ll cross to my Alaskan waters. We’ll ride through a season of commercial fishing in this wild corner of the world. We’ll cross the waters to Israel, where I hiked the “Gospel Trail” around the Sea of Galilee and fished with Galilean fishermen. And we’ll step out on a new journey through the Gospels, dipping into some of the wettest, stormiest, strangest events of those three years.
Come, follow me. Do not be afraid.
Here is the paradox of the Gospel: it brings peace and fellowship with God himself, but it doesn’t allow us to be satisfied with our own good fortune.
Praise
Is it possible that even the hard things that come to us are meant, finally, for our good?