Bodacious Bookworms Reviews 'The Damascus Way'
Missy Shay and her husband celebrate their anniversary together by inhaling a few books.
*This review was originally published on the Bodacious Bookworms blog. Reprinted with permission from the author.
By Missy Shay
Guest Reviewer
What a great book! I was supposed to have written this review weeks ago, but I was suffering from terrible sinus headaches and have not written any reviews in a while! Then I was out of town at camp meeting last week.
The Damascus Way is the the finale to the best-selling Acts of Faith trilogy co-authored by Davis Bunn and Janette Oke.
Here's a link to my review of The Centurion's Wife. And here's a link to my review of book 2 in the series, The Hidden Flame.
I was so excited to read the third book!
The Damascus Way is about a young rich girl named Julia. She has everything money can buy, a mother and father who loves her, but something is missing. They don't have any friends and company never comes over. She does not understand why until a terrible secret is revealed to her. The only one she can turn to is Jesus, but it is dangerous to be a follower of The Way.
Abigail's brother, Jacob, is now a young man. He is a believer, but does not where he belongs in the world. He feels that he is treated as a child still by his guardian. Should he continue as a caravan guard, or does God have another way for him to travel?
The book also tells about the Apostle Paul before he was saved and how terrified the Christians were of him. The title of the book comes from Paul's salvation on the Road to Damascus.
The book is very well written, at one point there is a terrible sand storm, and I could just picture myself there. I live in TX, and while I was reading the book we were having very high winds and dirt was blowing everywhere and I was covered with dirt from the wind storm, but it was nothing compared to the sand storms in the Middle East!
This is a must-read to help you understand what it was like to be a Christian and have to hide from authorities and friends when going to church services, and not being able to talk openly about your faith without fear of persecution.
We have many freedoms here in America that are slowly being taken away. We need to pray for our country and its leaders to make sure this does not happen here!
Missy Shay is a Sunday school teacher who loves to bake, decorate cakes, sew aprons and read. She likes to read good Christian fiction and share what she reads with other people. You can find her blog at bodaciousbookworms.blogspot.com. Missy blogs about baking, decorating cakes, aprons and sewing at missyscakesandaprons.blogspot.com.
