From Day to Day: Helpful Words for the Christian Life (Macdonald)

Author:

Macdonald, Robert

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SKU:

9781800403925

Publisher:

Banner

Pages:

576

Binding:

Cloth Bound

Description

This warm and encouraging book of daily devotionals, along with Bible verses suitable to each topic, shows forth a pastor’s heart and a disciple’s love of Scripture. One senses, moving through the year, topics and verses that were especially treasured to Robert Macdonald, presented so winsomely that they soon become precious to the reader. Each day, the author presents fresh biblical insights, interwoven with wisdom from the Puritans, amusing and yet helpful anecdotes from his own nineteenth-century Scotland, and snippets from hymns and poems.

Perhaps the most compelling recommendation of Macdonald’s book remains the one written by one of his fellow ministers and friends Andrew Bonar:

‘My dear Robert, From Day to Day is a book of most pleasant and profitable reading. It is 365 meditations—as many as Samuel Rutherford’s Letters—as many as Enoch’s years of earthly pilgrimage and walking with God. There is a clearness and pointedness in your style of writing that at once attracts the reader, and, dipping his rod in the honey, he finds his eyes enlightened.’

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From Day to Day

Posted by A. Cengia on 17th Sep 2024

The Bonar endorsement means a lot. His daughter’s biography of her father “Diary and Life” ministered to me, and drew me further into the tradition of the old Puritans. That was a good thing.

I have several devotionals on my shelves. Each minister to me in slightly different yet similar ways and I switch them around. When I saw “From Day to Day by Robert Macdonald” in our church bookstore, I was tempted to buy it; but resisted given I own so many. Did I really need another one?

Nevertheless I went back to read snippets, discovering that Bonar’s glowing recommendation wasn’t simply motivated by friendship; this devotional is full of pastoral insights, personal anecdotes, and very comforting to aching souls. Macdonald is like a spiritual father who understands the Christian struggle.