The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Down - Neta Jackson

Title: The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Down (Book 2) Author: Neta Jackson Genre: Christian fiction Rating: 5/5 # pages: 400 Date read: August 2008, June 2009, July 2012, July 2020

In this second installment of the series, a robbery, a lynching, and a mourning mother shake up the Yada Yada Prayer Group.

One night, while the Yada Yadas are "gettin' down" with God in prayer, a heroine-crazed woman barges into the house and, at knife-point, demands their valuables.

Then a well-meaning gesture incites a backlash of anger within the group forcing them to confront generations of racial division and distrust. The members of the Yada Yada Prayer Group find themselves learning what true forgiveness is.


Brilliant book. The Yada Yada books speak straight to my heart. I'm challenged to pray, praise God and generally take a closer look at my relationship with God. Do I just pay Him lip-service - or do I actually practise what I preach?

"The YYPG Gets Down" is a fitting continuation of the first book, and it raises an interesting question of forgiveness. Do we forgive even if the other person doesn't repent? Can we repent for the sins of others? (Like the Germans asking the Jews for forgiveness for the Holocaust) How can we accept God's forgiveness and learn to live with what we've done? And how do we cope if somebody we've wronged won't forgive us.

A powerful book, and a breath of fresh air. I need to remember to turn to these books when I feel like my spiritual life needs a 'pick me up'.

But why does Ruth have to speak like Yoda? Talks like this she does. Takes some getting used to.

The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Real - Neta Jackson

Title: The Yada-Yada Prayer Group Gets Real (Book 3) Author: Neta Jackson Genre: Christian fiction Rating: 5/5 # pages: 422 Date read: August 2008, June 2009, July 2012, July 2020

Book Three finds Jodi Baxtor's oasis turned upside down when her upstairs neighbors move out and her nemesis, Leslie (Stu) Stuart, moves in! Avis' middle aged cocoon is turned inside out, too, by a beau from her past, and Chanda's future has never looked brighter. But Stu's proximity to the Baxter household will draw her secret to the surface... and no one is ready for the crisis that will follow or the question the group will have to face: Just how far does forgiveness go when it requires investing your life in the forgiven one?


Just as powerful as the first book in the series, this one really spoke to my heart and thus blew me away. The all-encompassing subject here is God is gracious, but that sometimes we need a swift kick in the behind to realize we need His grace. A powerful message, yet Neta Jackson manages to get it across without preaching at her readers.