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70 years of miracles
Seventy Years of Miracles
185 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published May 1, 1993
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March 5, 2023
4.5 stars (Nothing was wrong with it in any way but for my personal reading style I didn't know if it was a 5, and I might change it to a five later.)
This was a delightful short read. I loved the story by chapter format and the author's voice was communicated so well throughout the story. I've never met or even heard of (whoops) Richard H. Harvey before reading this book, but I feel like I know him as a friend after reading this.
Each story was a beautiful tale of true story events of how trusting God can lead to supernatural blessings and it honestly reminded me of a modern George Muller story.
Overall it was exactly what the cover claims: great short stories reading for families.
This would be a great book to read as a family at dinnertime.
Content: None
Age rec: 3 to 300
This was a delightful short read. I loved the story by chapter format and the author's voice was communicated so well throughout the story. I've never met or even heard of (whoops) Richard H. Harvey before reading this book, but I feel like I know him as a friend after reading this.
Each story was a beautiful tale of true story events of how trusting God can lead to supernatural blessings and it honestly reminded me of a modern George Muller story.
Overall it was exactly what the cover claims: great short stories reading for families.
This would be a great book to read as a family at dinnertime.
Content: None
Age rec: 3 to 300
October 17, 2019
An encouraging sort-of autobiography.
When you hear the word miracle, many things may come to mind. It can conjure up pictures of the kind of miracles Jesus did, like walking on water or healing a blind person. This is not what's in this book.
The miracles in this book are of the more mundane kind - X dollars being provided or something being prayed for and then occurring. Things that a cynical person may ascribe to coincidence or the scattershot fallacy or even that there are things in the way the world works that we don't yet know about (eg morphic resonance).
Expanding on those two examples a bit, they're of the kind like: a church needing X amount of dollars by a certain time, and exactly $X showing up just a minute before that time; or prayer being made for some outcome Y and some unlikely person who happened to be passing through the area being prompted in their thoughts to provide Y.
Yes, they could be ascribed to coincidence. However, there's enough detail in these stories to make that extremely unlikely.
I doubt this book will convince skeptics but I don't think it's really written for them. It's written for people who already believe in Christ and it's a great encouragement to bolster belief in the power of prayer. We live in such a skeptical age, it tends to rub off on us Christians and our faith is so tiny, let alone the size of a mustard seed. Anything that can be done to see the world as it really is, is worthwhile.
When you hear the word miracle, many things may come to mind. It can conjure up pictures of the kind of miracles Jesus did, like walking on water or healing a blind person. This is not what's in this book.
The miracles in this book are of the more mundane kind - X dollars being provided or something being prayed for and then occurring. Things that a cynical person may ascribe to coincidence or the scattershot fallacy or even that there are things in the way the world works that we don't yet know about (eg morphic resonance).
Expanding on those two examples a bit, they're of the kind like: a church needing X amount of dollars by a certain time, and exactly $X showing up just a minute before that time; or prayer being made for some outcome Y and some unlikely person who happened to be passing through the area being prompted in their thoughts to provide Y.
Yes, they could be ascribed to coincidence. However, there's enough detail in these stories to make that extremely unlikely.
I doubt this book will convince skeptics but I don't think it's really written for them. It's written for people who already believe in Christ and it's a great encouragement to bolster belief in the power of prayer. We live in such a skeptical age, it tends to rub off on us Christians and our faith is so tiny, let alone the size of a mustard seed. Anything that can be done to see the world as it really is, is worthwhile.
June 3, 2025
This book was loaned to my by my Godmother. It was a very encouraging autobiography type book. it heavily focuses on the power of prayer, which is not seen as often in our age of writings by Christians.
July 29, 2014
Dr. Harvey packed a lot into his years of service for the Lord. I was personally struck at what he asked for before he came to a church to be their pastor. Amazing boldness in asking and showing the church he meant business.
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