To Walk and Not Faint: A Month of Meditations on Isaiah 40

by Marva Dawn

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 1997

Overview

Completely revised more than 15 years after its first printing, To Walk and Not Faint is Marva J. Dawn’s popular first book. Her devotional reflections examine Isaiah 40 as it deals with many of the critical issues of daily life. Dawn’s meticulous study opens up each verse of Isaiah 40 to challenge us with significant insights for faith and profound motivation for growth in discipleship. The structure of the book bridges head and heart: it offers both exegetical depth and personal involvement for a month of devotional reflection. Each meditation observes the text carefully, considers some of the nuances and implications of the original Hebrew, and identifies how our lives fit into the bigger story of the biblical narrative. Thus, the book both supplies skills for biblical meditation and invites readers to contemplate God’s relation to all the cries of human existence, to realize how a relationship with the Trinity gives us the unusual ability to handle all the dimensions of life.

Contents

Top Highlights

“It took men like Ezra and Nehemiah, faithful leaders who listened to instruction from YHWH” (Page 78)

“fools in our presumptions that we do not trust this” (Page 75)

“Though I am grateful for my country, I cannot give it undivided loyalty. Loving it forces me to be critical of its business tactics and governmental policies, its selling of weapons to feed the world’s atrocities, its flagrant practice and exportation of immorality, its exploitation of poorer countries, its consumerism and waste. These certainly cannot be my practices if I am a loving citizen of God’s Kingdom.” (Pages 106–107)

“yet he deigns to use us and to make us valuable members of his body to effect his will on the earth” (Page 80)

“How can we describe God? By what means shall we come to a greater understanding of YHWH” (Page 110)

Product Details

• Title: To Walk and Not Faint: A Month of Meditations on Isaiah 40
• Author: Marva Dawn
• Edition: Second Edition
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 1997
• Logos Release Date: 2015
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. O.T. Isaiah 40 › Meditations
• ISBNs: 9780802842909, 0802842909
• Resource ID: LLS:WALKNOTFAINT
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:40:54Z

About Marva Dawn

Marva J. Dawn serves as theologian and educator with Christians Equipped for Ministry of Vancouver, Washington. Five of her books have been honored with a place on the Academy of Parish Clergy annual list of their top ten books, most recently in 2007. She is known throughout the world for her best-selling devotional and theological books and for her popular lectures on worship, ministry, and church and family life.