The One Year on This Day

by Dianne Neal Matthews

Book Overview

Discover daily spiritual truth and application gleaned each day from current events and historic happenings. Each devotional relates something significant that happened on that day and then connects... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1414304412
• ISBN13: 9781414304410
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
• Length: 379 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Highly recommended!

What a great concept! Not only does author Dianne Neal Matthews educate readers with interesting and intriguing information about historical events, but she also makes them personally and biblically relevant. I highly recommend these well-researched and well-written devotionals!

Jumpstarting the Day

Matthews makes morning devotions an adventure in learning. Not only do I get a scriptural/spiritual lift from her book, I also get a tidbit of history to insert into my conversation with others. I look forward to seeing what happened on each day and the wonderful way she ties it in with a Biblical lesson.

Something Special Everyday

As a history buff, I really enjoyed The One Year on This Day. There are plenty of places to find an "one this day in history" account, but having a devotional that ties the events to the hand of God (as if it could be any other way) is inspiring and thought provoking. For instance, July 30 was the day (in 1956) that "In God We Trust" became the national motto. In her devotional, Dianne Matthews encourages the reader to ponder whether America really does trust in God and shows us what that means by quoting David in Psalm 28:7. And on September 6 (the date when Google launched), Matthews talks about our need to search and ties it to searching the Scriptures for answers. A creative twist on traditional devotionals. I highly recommend The One Year on This Day. Cindy Thomson Author of Brigid of Ireland and Co-author of Three Finger: The Mordecai Brown Story

Spiritually & Biblically Accurate PLUS Interesting

My husband is a pastor, I am a speaker/writer, two of my children have degrees in theology, and my son-in-law is going for his Master of Divinity degree. My husband and I do devotions daily and the kids usually visit and join in on the weekends. Finding a devotional that doesn't get picked to pieces has been an on-going battle. We usually only get a few lines in and someone detects incorrect theology or some-such-thing and they cry foul. We've thrown more than one devotional away. We love the On This Day devotional! It's been deemed spiritually/Biblically accurate by my breakfast nook panel of judges, the history is interesting, and it's well written. Bravo!

Enjoyed by the whole family

Our family has been reading this book, one day at a time, after dinners. With an 11, 13 and 15 year old in the house the topics are challenging and interesting enough for all of us. We'd recommend this book to everyone!