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Be Not Dismayed: A story of spiritual triumph
Cancer!
The very word strikes fear into our hearts. Can we have victory over this disease even when the final result is not what we had hoped? We can! Victory in Jesus! How do we experience this victory? What does it really mean?
Be Not Dismayed: A story of spiritual triumph is the story of my fifteen year old daughter, Erin, and her twenty-two month battle with AML, an extremely aggressive form of leukemia. As a direct result of her illness, Erin and the entire Havey family came to know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. It is the story of astounding faith born of profound desperation; a story of the triumph of light over darkness.
It is difficult to find anyone who has not been affected by cancer or some other life-threatening illness. Why a loving God would allow anyone, especially a child, to suffer the horrible effects of a debilitating disease is incomprehensible to most.
To those individuals, Be Not Dismayed: A story of spiritual triumph, offers the promise of hope. It demonstrates the immense magnitude of God's grace, faithfulness and restorative power in the disconsolate face of tragedy, despair and the final enemy - death. It is an authoritative confirmation of Romans 8:28:
"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are called according to his purpose."
The very word strikes fear into our hearts. Can we have victory over this disease even when the final result is not what we had hoped? We can! Victory in Jesus! How do we experience this victory? What does it really mean?
Be Not Dismayed: A story of spiritual triumph is the story of my fifteen year old daughter, Erin, and her twenty-two month battle with AML, an extremely aggressive form of leukemia. As a direct result of her illness, Erin and the entire Havey family came to know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. It is the story of astounding faith born of profound desperation; a story of the triumph of light over darkness.
It is difficult to find anyone who has not been affected by cancer or some other life-threatening illness. Why a loving God would allow anyone, especially a child, to suffer the horrible effects of a debilitating disease is incomprehensible to most.
To those individuals, Be Not Dismayed: A story of spiritual triumph, offers the promise of hope. It demonstrates the immense magnitude of God's grace, faithfulness and restorative power in the disconsolate face of tragedy, despair and the final enemy - death. It is an authoritative confirmation of Romans 8:28:
"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are called according to his purpose."
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About the author
Bob Havey
3 books3 followersBob Havey is an author and conference speaker who vividly portrays the power and practicality of God's life changing word and the monumental depth of His unconditional love, compassion, and faithfulness in a positive, challenging, spiritually stimulating style.
On January 22nd, 1994, Bob’s daughter, Erin, who had been battling leukemia for twenty two months, went to be with the Lord she had grown to love so much. In March of that same year, Bob was led to start a Christian newspaper and six months later The Messenger, which was distributed by more than ninety Christian bookstores in all six New England states, made its debut.
Bob discovered his gift for touching the lives of others with God's healing power while speaking before a group of two hundred men at a weekend retreat at Pilgrim Pines Conference Center in West Swanzey, New Hampshire several months following Erin's passing.
"I was terrified," Bob said. "I didn't know I was going to be asked to speak. But the Lord is faithful. He gave me the words. When I finished I saw tears in the eyes of all those men. I knew then that God could use me; that He could use my pain to help others. I give Him all the glory."
This father of three has spent more than 40 years working in the communications in-dustry, beginning his career in 1969 at The Los Angeles Herald Examiner, in Los Angeles, CA. He is the founder and past-president of both New England Christian Media Ministries, Inc., and the Interdenominational Christian Men’s Network, Inc., a non-profit Christian men’s ministry.
Bob has served on the board of directors of two Christian counseling agencies; Hosanna Lighthouse Ministries and Comprehensive Counseling and was ordained for Christian ministry in 1996 and served as co-pastor of The Epistles of Christ Christian Center in Bourne, MA for several years.
Bob has appeared on various Christian radio and television programs and has been the keynote speaker for numerous churches and organizations including Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International.
A featured speaker at Ordinary Man - Extraordinary God, the 1998 New England Men’s Conference; Bob shared the speaker’s platform with Promise Keepers founder and CEO, Coach Bill McCartney; the Rev. Dr. A. R. Bernard, Pastor of the 10,000 member New York Christian Life Centre, in Brooklyn, NY; and Dr. Ken R. Canfield of The National Center for Fathering. Many have called this conference, sponsored and produced by Bob and New England Christian Media Ministries, the most dynamic Christian men’s event in the history of New England.
Bob has written more than one-hundred columns that he is currently compiling into book form, and is working on a children’s book, Zoot The Gypsy Cat.
Spiritual restoration is Bob’s passion. He has touched audiences all over New England and through this book, Be Not Dismayed: A story of spiritual triumph; his hope is that he will touch you as well - with the extraordinary power of God's life changing word.
Bob may be contacted at RHH@Bobhavey.com.
On January 22nd, 1994, Bob’s daughter, Erin, who had been battling leukemia for twenty two months, went to be with the Lord she had grown to love so much. In March of that same year, Bob was led to start a Christian newspaper and six months later The Messenger, which was distributed by more than ninety Christian bookstores in all six New England states, made its debut.
Bob discovered his gift for touching the lives of others with God's healing power while speaking before a group of two hundred men at a weekend retreat at Pilgrim Pines Conference Center in West Swanzey, New Hampshire several months following Erin's passing.
"I was terrified," Bob said. "I didn't know I was going to be asked to speak. But the Lord is faithful. He gave me the words. When I finished I saw tears in the eyes of all those men. I knew then that God could use me; that He could use my pain to help others. I give Him all the glory."
This father of three has spent more than 40 years working in the communications in-dustry, beginning his career in 1969 at The Los Angeles Herald Examiner, in Los Angeles, CA. He is the founder and past-president of both New England Christian Media Ministries, Inc., and the Interdenominational Christian Men’s Network, Inc., a non-profit Christian men’s ministry.
Bob has served on the board of directors of two Christian counseling agencies; Hosanna Lighthouse Ministries and Comprehensive Counseling and was ordained for Christian ministry in 1996 and served as co-pastor of The Epistles of Christ Christian Center in Bourne, MA for several years.
Bob has appeared on various Christian radio and television programs and has been the keynote speaker for numerous churches and organizations including Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International.
A featured speaker at Ordinary Man - Extraordinary God, the 1998 New England Men’s Conference; Bob shared the speaker’s platform with Promise Keepers founder and CEO, Coach Bill McCartney; the Rev. Dr. A. R. Bernard, Pastor of the 10,000 member New York Christian Life Centre, in Brooklyn, NY; and Dr. Ken R. Canfield of The National Center for Fathering. Many have called this conference, sponsored and produced by Bob and New England Christian Media Ministries, the most dynamic Christian men’s event in the history of New England.
Bob has written more than one-hundred columns that he is currently compiling into book form, and is working on a children’s book, Zoot The Gypsy Cat.
Spiritual restoration is Bob’s passion. He has touched audiences all over New England and through this book, Be Not Dismayed: A story of spiritual triumph; his hope is that he will touch you as well - with the extraordinary power of God's life changing word.
Bob may be contacted at RHH@Bobhavey.com.
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March 17, 2014
This is such a beautiful story - I had a difficult time putting it down!
March 24, 2014
Wonderful book!
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