This is Corrie Ten Boom's story: beginning where her profoundly moving bestseller ended, taking us on a uniquely thrilling tour to the nearest and farthest corners of the earth.
Reverend Martin comes face to face with the sins of his youth in the person of Robert X, a young, unkempt stranger who arrives in town for a mysterious "meeting" with the Reverend. A story of Christ's message and the courageous woman who listened and lived to pass it along with joy and triumph!Ī story of a man brought to reckon with his buried past.
Here is a book aglow with the glory of God and the courage of a quiet Christian spinster whose life was transformed by it. And, once again, Corrie realized that it was for the souls of the brutal Nazi guards that her sister prayed. No, in spite of my misgivings I came away feeling inspired and enlivened by what I’d read.Corrie Ten Boom stood naked with her older sister Betsie, watching a concentration camp matron beating a prisoner."Oh, the poor woman," Corrie cried."Yes. She often put her own life at risk travelling to Communist and war torn African countries to speak to and inspire other Christians.
For in these pages I read of a woman who God had continued to inspire, even after the loss of her mother, sister and auntie and her own experience in a concentration camp, to carry on spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ throughout the World. I sometimes feel that her faith was bordering on the common criticism of Evangelicalism that it can reduce God to a slot machine in a penny arcade that pays out on every pull of the handle.īut maybe that’s my problem, something of my own cynicism. Do I not trust God enough? If I ask for money or air tickets in order to do His work will he provide for me in the same way? You do not get because you do not ask? ten Boom seems to have a depth of trust in divine provision way beyond my own, something which at times challenged me. I gave the book four stars because of its accessibility and it’s simple but profound messages. It is most definitely rooted in the Evangelical tradition, something I admit to having moved away from in my own spiritual journey. The collection of anecdotes each has a spiritual lesson attached to it. Tramp for the Lord is a book of short vignettes of evangelist Corrie ten Boom’s life following hermrelease from the Nazi concentration camp at Ravensbrück, spanning almost forty years.
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