Internationally-acclaimed author and preacher Charles Stanley adds to his impressive legacy with a year's worth of devotionals drawn from his previous writings including best-sellers Success God's Way, Seeking His Face , and Enter His Gates . This best-selling devotional is loaded with life-changing thoughts and beautiful four-color illustrations. Divided into twelve months but not dated for a specific year, this book promises to become a perennial favorite.
Dr. Charles F. Stanley is the senior pastor of First Baptist Church Atlanta, founder of In Touch Ministries, and a New York Times best-selling author who has written more than fifty books, and has sold more than nine million copies. He demonstrates a keen awareness of people's needs and provides Christ-centered, biblically-based principles for everyday life.
Charles Frazier Stanley was born September 25, 1932, in the small town of Dry Fork, Virginia. The only child of Charley and Rebecca Stanley, Charles came into the world during a time when the entire nation felt the grip of the Great Depression. To make matters worse, just nine months later, his father Charley died at the young age of 29.
However, Charles refused to let the Great Depression or the difficulties of his life define him. Instead, like his father and grandfather before him, he clung to God’s Word and took up the mantle to preach the gospel to whoever would listen.
Dr. Stanley’s motivation is best represented by the truth found in Acts 20:24, “Life is worth nothing unless I use it for doing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus—the work of telling others the Good News about God's mighty kindness and love.” This is because, as he says, “It is the Word of God and the work of God that changes people’s lives.”
Dr. Stanley’s teachings can be heard weekly at First Baptist Church Atlanta, daily on “In Touch with Dr. Charles Stanley” radio and television broadcasts on more than 2,800 stations around the world, on the Internet at intouch.org, through the In Touch Messenger, and in the monthly, award-winning In Touch magazine.
The books content is fine although I don’t enjoy reading it because it’s constantly falling apart and it’s hard to read due to the quality of book making. I honestly enjoy reading Sarah Young’s daily devotionals much more due to her style of writing, but mainly because of the quality of the book.
These daily scripture readings and spiritual guidance are a wonderful way to start your day. They help remind you why you are here and how you should live. We must work towards being more like Jesus by loving and helping one another, thanking God for all that we have, be repenting of our sins and ask for forgiveness.
I have found that reading this book is extremely frustrating because of the quality of the book making is so poor. The paper stock shines when you turn on a light for a better reading. This makes it difficult to read the print because the print is not full on black it’s a faded color. Also the pages tend to fall out as you are opening the book further to read.
The book cover’s photo is beautiful and very symbolic; A pathway to God.
I have thoroughly enjoyed digging deeper into God’s Word almost daily with this book!!! I’m so very thankful I finally picked it up and started after it was given to me as a gift a couple of years ago.
Well another year complete and a morning time spent with God and Charles Stanley in the rearview mirror. As with any year there were ups and downs. Many days the daily devotion I read was right on the mark. I enjoy Charles Stanly books and his devotionals are enjoyable too.
Make your 2015 special. Spend some time with God every day. This devotional will help you do that.