A Closer Walk

by Catherine Marshall

Book Overview

A writer who handles words with grace....Catherine Marshall invades fields where most religious leaders fear to tread..........Nashville Tennessean This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800790650
• ISBN13: 9780800790653
• Release Date: July 1986
• Publisher: Chosen Books
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Works well as a devotional

In A Closer Walk Catherine Marshall's daily journals, full of the questions we might have as well, are edited to concise readings grouped by theme. I have used this as a daily devotional and found it both helpful and inspiring. Often the topic of the day hit on something I was struggling with as well and it was a great help. Well worth the money and one to re-read often.

Spiritually Solid!

These writings are taken from the prayer journals of Catherine Marshall. In the preface, Elizabeth Sherrill tells us that these notes reflect the author's "daily appointment" with God and were originally kept in spiral-bound notebooks of various shapes and colors. Catherine brought her dreams, goals, desires, and reflections to these times of fellowship with her Creator. Writing eliminated vagueness. We can be thankful that she did not speak in religious cliches, but communicated in a realistic way. She even expresses doubts and areas where she didn't understand what was going on. I find her candor refreshing. She can be trusted. She's not trying to be a "super Christian." We're told that she liked to pray with her Bible and that "All of Catherine's Bibles are marked with underlinings; color shadings make certain passages almost leap out at you" (p. xxv). Some sections of her Bibles contained question marks in the margins. These observations come from her second husband, Lenoard E. LeSourd in his introduction to the first section of the book. Catherine says "God often speaks to me through dreams" (p. 18). It should be noted that she uses Scripture as the authority whereby these and other sources of information are tested.She discribes memorizing Scripture as a means of it becoming a permanent possession of mind and heart (p. 21).She speaks to people desiring to live above circumstances by saying "...we don't have to settle for blandness in life; God, who is the Author of creativity, is ready to make a dull life adventuresome the moment we allow His Holy Spirit to go work inside us" (p. 49).This wonderful book is full of powerful reflections on the truths of God's Word that can be applied to anyone's life regardless of their position.