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A Day's Journey: Stories of Hope and Death-Defying Joy
"Beautifully written and inspiringly grounded in the deepest truths, this is a book that will give strength and courage to all who are making their way through uncertain times and difficult days."--Tim Challies, author of
Seasons of Sorrow
How Do You Make Each Day of Your Brief Life Count?
Tim Keesee spent years crisscrossing the globe, documenting the gospel's advance in regions of war and persecution through his writing and films. But double blows from terminal cancer diagnoses in 2019 and 2021 brought his travels to a halt.
In A Day's Journey, Tim takes up his pen to write dispatches from a smaller, more intimate world. He writes of Christian brothers and sisters who have taught him so much about a day well the way they work and worship, the way they pray and sing, the way they love their neighbors and their enemies, even when beaten black and blue for the sake of Christ.
In this book you'll have the privilege to walk with Tim through days of pain and hard questions, but also days of grace, wonder, and death-defying joy. Poignant, inspiring, and beautifully written, these stories model the courage we need, the joy we have, the gospel we love, the cross we bear, and the hope we embrace until faith becomes sight.
" A Day's Journey was written for you. The stories on the following pages are compiled for the enrichment of your faith. For when it comes to hardships, we all need hope, help, and a little guidance. With every chapter, Tim provides convincing examples of how to do what is good--that is, how to endure the weightiest of afflictions with an eye to God's glory."--Joni Eareckson Tada, from the foreword
How Do You Make Each Day of Your Brief Life Count?
Tim Keesee spent years crisscrossing the globe, documenting the gospel's advance in regions of war and persecution through his writing and films. But double blows from terminal cancer diagnoses in 2019 and 2021 brought his travels to a halt.
In A Day's Journey, Tim takes up his pen to write dispatches from a smaller, more intimate world. He writes of Christian brothers and sisters who have taught him so much about a day well the way they work and worship, the way they pray and sing, the way they love their neighbors and their enemies, even when beaten black and blue for the sake of Christ.
In this book you'll have the privilege to walk with Tim through days of pain and hard questions, but also days of grace, wonder, and death-defying joy. Poignant, inspiring, and beautifully written, these stories model the courage we need, the joy we have, the gospel we love, the cross we bear, and the hope we embrace until faith becomes sight.
" A Day's Journey was written for you. The stories on the following pages are compiled for the enrichment of your faith. For when it comes to hardships, we all need hope, help, and a little guidance. With every chapter, Tim provides convincing examples of how to do what is good--that is, how to endure the weightiest of afflictions with an eye to God's glory."--Joni Eareckson Tada, from the foreword
242 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 24, 2023
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About the author
Tim Keesee
13 books26 followersTim Keesee is the founder and executive director of Frontline Missions International, which for the past 20 years has served to advance the gospel in some of the world’s most difficult places. He has traveled to 80 countries, reporting on the church from the former Iron Curtain countries to war-torn Bosnia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He is the executive producer of the popular DVD documentary series, Dispatches from the Front, and the author of Dispatches from the Front: Stories of Gospel Advance in the World's Difficult Places.
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March 26, 2024
Absolute stonker of a book!
February 8, 2025
Superb.
February 3, 2025
Much here to ponder about living each day with a keen awareness that they are are numbered and yet, we live with resurrection power in light of a glorious eternity with Christ. A few favorite quotes:
Our days may be too hard and our nights too long to face alone, but because of the abounding grace of Jesus, we are stronger than we know and part of something bigger than we can see.
From a prayer, “Lord Jesus, may the risks be taken, the sacrifice of my strength and days, display your worth alone. Keep me restless for more of your glory until I see your face.”
I can’t save—can’t keep—my life. I can only spend it. And if by God’s grace we spend our days for the glory of Christ, then we will have lived them well, whatever their number.
“God’s mercies are new every morning, and it’s always morning somewhere.” (Quote from Gloria Furman.)
Our hope…is rooted in the resurrection, so it’s stronger even than death.
…We are all terminal. So given that our days run swiftly toward nightfall, how do we spend them well?
The middle of the book contains some great conversations about the day in the life of people on mission, some well known, others not. Put together with Keesee’s musings and account of fighting cancer, there is a lot of hope stronger than death that encourages a life lived to the full.
Our days may be too hard and our nights too long to face alone, but because of the abounding grace of Jesus, we are stronger than we know and part of something bigger than we can see.
From a prayer, “Lord Jesus, may the risks be taken, the sacrifice of my strength and days, display your worth alone. Keep me restless for more of your glory until I see your face.”
I can’t save—can’t keep—my life. I can only spend it. And if by God’s grace we spend our days for the glory of Christ, then we will have lived them well, whatever their number.
“God’s mercies are new every morning, and it’s always morning somewhere.” (Quote from Gloria Furman.)
Our hope…is rooted in the resurrection, so it’s stronger even than death.
…We are all terminal. So given that our days run swiftly toward nightfall, how do we spend them well?
The middle of the book contains some great conversations about the day in the life of people on mission, some well known, others not. Put together with Keesee’s musings and account of fighting cancer, there is a lot of hope stronger than death that encourages a life lived to the full.
May 26, 2025
What an encouraging book, in seeing how faith despite circumstances can lead to joy!
Although a biography, the author does mention a few other people he has interacted with that journey alongside him and his wife Debbie e.g. Tim Keller, Rosaria Butterfield. Several C.S.Lewis, LOTR, and Pilgrims progress 'quotes, hymns, poetry, and scripture are mentioned.
Tim reflects on his life with spending a 'day in life' with others and sharing his cancer diagnosis battle and faith that has been a stronghold for him and many other of similar experiences.
Although a biography, the author does mention a few other people he has interacted with that journey alongside him and his wife Debbie e.g. Tim Keller, Rosaria Butterfield. Several C.S.Lewis, LOTR, and Pilgrims progress 'quotes, hymns, poetry, and scripture are mentioned.
Tim reflects on his life with spending a 'day in life' with others and sharing his cancer diagnosis battle and faith that has been a stronghold for him and many other of similar experiences.
December 31, 2023
Tim Keesee at his best. I’ve loved both his other books, but this one is by far my favorite. He has such a way with words. I love hearing the stories of ordinary and more well-known people! What an encouragement. The poems and Bible verses are perfectly fit to each of the stories. I loved his conversations with Joni Erickson Tada and her prayer for him before treatment. So much of this book inspired me to live more to the glory of God and his kingdom with whatever life I am left to live.
September 13, 2025
This is, I believe, the third book by Tim Keesee that I’ve read. I have loved every one! Tim writes poetic, moving, faith-building accounts of the gospel’s advance around the world in the face of opposition and persecution. In A Day’s Journey, he also writes about his own terminal cancer diagnosis. Every time I read an account of a Christian suffering well, my faith is strengthened. It is so good to have my eyes focused on Christ again and again!
May 24, 2024
Beautiful in its simple focus on day-to-day life for Tim and a few of his friends. What does it look like to live for Christ daily, to have hope amidst illness, challenges, and darkness? Tim's writing is invariably enjoyable and insightful, and my heart was lifted by his work in this book.
Full disclosure: the agency of which I'm a partner represented Tim on this book.
Full disclosure: the agency of which I'm a partner represented Tim on this book.
September 20, 2024
Though I rarely read devotional books, I read this one because I know the author and so many of the people mentioned, or at least have heard them speak. Tim Keesee, a natural storyteller, writes with poetic flair; and these Christian meditations on carpe diem regularly quote “psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs.”
January 27, 2024
Beautifully written thoughts about life and death.
February 3, 2024
Beautifully written thoughts on how to live and die well in Christ…
March 14, 2024
Love his real life stories, humour and his writing style. Also very edifying and inspirational.
May 27, 2024
Great book on his travels and his recent bouts of cancer. Very inspiring.
June 10, 2024
I could not stop listening to this book! It was such a blessing! Highly recommend!
August 23, 2024
A simple but moving collection of vignettes that was helpful for me in a dark time. I hope it sticks with me.
September 29, 2025
incredible hope-filled chapters through such a hard cancer journey. riveting stories of such inspiring men and women who soldier on.
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