What do you think?
Rate this book
Where His Feet Pass
‘I’m giving you every place where the sole of your foot falls.’
So God promised Joshua. On the verge of the Jordan, God offered the people His binding, irrevocable assurance the land would be their inheritance forever.
Seems simple. Yet, as we trace the footsteps of Jesus along particular ancient paths, we’ll see there’s a deeper meaning to this divine promise. It’s about binding up the wounds of the past, about healing history, about redeeming the land.
So God promised Joshua. On the verge of the Jordan, God offered the people His binding, irrevocable assurance the land would be their inheritance forever.
Seems simple. Yet, as we trace the footsteps of Jesus along particular ancient paths, we’ll see there’s a deeper meaning to this divine promise. It’s about binding up the wounds of the past, about healing history, about redeeming the land.
72 pages, Paperback
Published August 6, 2021
2 people want to read
About the author
Anne Hamilton
56 books186 followersLibrarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.
For twenty years, I was the coordinator of an annual camp for children based around The Chronicles of Narnia. That experience shaped a lot of my thinking about how readers enjoy fantasy.
Like CS Lewis, my fantasy story Many-Coloured Realm began with a picture in my mind's eye: a boy without arms floating in a field of stars and faced with an impossible choice.
My non-fiction series beginning with God's Poetry can be traced back to the observation that Lewis comes from the Welsh word for lion. The discovery of name covenants led to the discovery of threshold covenants, as well as many other long-forgotten aspects of our Judeo-Christian heritage.
I love exploring words, mathematics and names. All of these combine in my books, whether they are fiction or non-fiction, or whether they're for adults or children, whether they're academic in tone or primarily devotional. I hope my readers always come away from my books with a renewed delight for the world around us and a child-like wonder for its awesome aspects.
For twenty years, I was the coordinator of an annual camp for children based around The Chronicles of Narnia. That experience shaped a lot of my thinking about how readers enjoy fantasy.
Like CS Lewis, my fantasy story Many-Coloured Realm began with a picture in my mind's eye: a boy without arms floating in a field of stars and faced with an impossible choice.
My non-fiction series beginning with God's Poetry can be traced back to the observation that Lewis comes from the Welsh word for lion. The discovery of name covenants led to the discovery of threshold covenants, as well as many other long-forgotten aspects of our Judeo-Christian heritage.
I love exploring words, mathematics and names. All of these combine in my books, whether they are fiction or non-fiction, or whether they're for adults or children, whether they're academic in tone or primarily devotional. I hope my readers always come away from my books with a renewed delight for the world around us and a child-like wonder for its awesome aspects.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews
January 3, 2023
Similar events and locations, different viewpoints. Characters we know well from Bible stories respond with very human reactions and interactions.
The first anecdote is from the viewpoint of the apostle James. Readers of Anne Hamilton's books are used to her insights that link actions with those hundreds of years earlier.
Hamilton departs from her usual conversational but factual style in the second story with vivid narrative non-fiction imagination from the apostle Thomas. In his sleepless nights, Thomas, awake for forty hours straight, "started to see things. Very harrowing and eerie things, the past and the future side by side and then overlapping. Prophecy and history in parallel slices."
This foray into magical realism develops a passage of masterly, lyrical writing. It swirls around the death of Lazarus. Thomas feels ill-ease that Jesus ignored pleas to return to Bethany and heal his loved friend. Rather, He stayed camped on cliff-tops above the Brook of Cherith, fasting and praying for four days after Lazarus' death. Jews understood that the soul would wait three days then depart to Sheol. Jesus' declaration true proved "I am the Resurrection and the Life."
Twins. Another feature of this story was inspired by the structural design of John's gospel explains Hamilton, [like] "John's arrangement of matching pairs that are mirrored around a central focal point."
She leaves the reader with a challenge: "whether I don't believe You have plans and a future for me that include a happily-ever-after...a fairytale ending to my life." Whether there is any "missing out" on a blessing. Much to ponder.
The first anecdote is from the viewpoint of the apostle James. Readers of Anne Hamilton's books are used to her insights that link actions with those hundreds of years earlier.
Hamilton departs from her usual conversational but factual style in the second story with vivid narrative non-fiction imagination from the apostle Thomas. In his sleepless nights, Thomas, awake for forty hours straight, "started to see things. Very harrowing and eerie things, the past and the future side by side and then overlapping. Prophecy and history in parallel slices."
This foray into magical realism develops a passage of masterly, lyrical writing. It swirls around the death of Lazarus. Thomas feels ill-ease that Jesus ignored pleas to return to Bethany and heal his loved friend. Rather, He stayed camped on cliff-tops above the Brook of Cherith, fasting and praying for four days after Lazarus' death. Jews understood that the soul would wait three days then depart to Sheol. Jesus' declaration true proved "I am the Resurrection and the Life."
Twins. Another feature of this story was inspired by the structural design of John's gospel explains Hamilton, [like] "John's arrangement of matching pairs that are mirrored around a central focal point."
She leaves the reader with a challenge: "whether I don't believe You have plans and a future for me that include a happily-ever-after...a fairytale ending to my life." Whether there is any "missing out" on a blessing. Much to ponder.
Read
April 24, 2023I've left this book without a rating because it's my own work.
But I do want to make a few comments on it. The more I look at the miracles of Jesus, the more I realise how complex they are. In our individualistic, atomistic age we can hardly grasp what it means for anyone to have a sense of the trauma of history, the wounds of the land, the hurt and harm that remains unhealed from one generation to the next. It seems too "mystical" for us that Jesus would be repairing the tragedies of a bygone age. But He clearly does.
The main story in this book (a genre-bending mix of narrative fiction, non-fiction, poetry and discussion questions) shows us that, in responding to the message about the illness of Lazarus, Jesus exactly traced the path that, a millennium previously, would have been the same as that of the bones of Saul and Jonathan when they were re-interred near Jerusalem. That was at David's instigation.
Jesus isn't just annulling the covenant with hell and death that Saul took out on the night before he died, He's also annulling the covenant with hell and death that David took out when he lost his trust in God. That's the shocker. We tend to be so used to Saul being the villain nothing surprises us about him, but David is the hero. How could he have done something so unholy?
It's only as we see the mending that Jesus undertakes that we begin to realise that when He said no one is good but God alone, He really meant it.
But I do want to make a few comments on it. The more I look at the miracles of Jesus, the more I realise how complex they are. In our individualistic, atomistic age we can hardly grasp what it means for anyone to have a sense of the trauma of history, the wounds of the land, the hurt and harm that remains unhealed from one generation to the next. It seems too "mystical" for us that Jesus would be repairing the tragedies of a bygone age. But He clearly does.
The main story in this book (a genre-bending mix of narrative fiction, non-fiction, poetry and discussion questions) shows us that, in responding to the message about the illness of Lazarus, Jesus exactly traced the path that, a millennium previously, would have been the same as that of the bones of Saul and Jonathan when they were re-interred near Jerusalem. That was at David's instigation.
Jesus isn't just annulling the covenant with hell and death that Saul took out on the night before he died, He's also annulling the covenant with hell and death that David took out when he lost his trust in God. That's the shocker. We tend to be so used to Saul being the villain nothing surprises us about him, but David is the hero. How could he have done something so unholy?
It's only as we see the mending that Jesus undertakes that we begin to realise that when He said no one is good but God alone, He really meant it.
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews