Pilgrimage: My Journey to a Deeper Faith in the Land Where Jesus Walked
We all encounter times when our spirit feels dry, when doubt looms. The opportunity to tour Israel came at a good time. For months, my life has been a mindless plodding through necessary routine, as monotonous as an all-night shift on an assembly line. Life gets that way sometimes, when nothing specific is wrong but the world around us seems drained of color. Even my weekly worship experiences and daily quiet times with God have felt as dry and stale as last year's crackers. I'm ashamed to confess the malaise I've felt. I have been given so much. Shouldn't a Christian's life be an abundant one, as exciting as Christmas morning, as joyful as Easter Sunday? With gripping honesty, Lynn Austin pens her struggles with spiritual dryness in a season of loss and unwanted change. Tracing her travels throughout Israel, Austin seamlessly weaves events and insights from the Word . . . and in doing so finds a renewed passion for prayer and encouragement for her spirit, now full of life and hope.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0764211188
ISBN13:9780764211188
Release Date:November 2013
Publisher:Bethany House Publishers
Length:238 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"
Age Range:18 years and up
Customer Reviews
1 rating
A decent book to prepare yourself for your own pilgrimage to Israel.
Published by Pastor Beckett , 2 years ago
This book was a recommended reading for my class and pilgrimage to Israel during my senior year at Concordia University-Ann Arbor back in January of 2017. While Austin skilfully utilises her pilgrimage experience to illustrate what she learnt about the land our Lord walked, she also utilises bad theology, such as symbolic baptism, unanswered prayer whenever God doesn’t say “yes” (His “no” is still an answer), and failing to recognise the Lord’s Supper for the forgiveness of sins. However, since the purpose of the book is not doctrinal but anecdotal, my rating of the book is kinder. Overall, her use of allegory had inspired and excited me for my own pilgrimage walk. I would recommend this book to anyone preparing for a pilgrimage to Israel, with the caveat of reading it through a Lutheran lens to make up for the poor theology. The main takeaway from this book is recognising God’s faithfulness to His people through Christ our Lord.
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