Once a Day Country Faith is a devotional type book that takes one (and on a couple of occasions two) musicians , their favorite verse and their thoughts on said verse(s).
Some Artists include.
Christy Lee Cook. Jason Crabb.
Randy Owen (from Alabama). Josh Turner. Billy Dean
Rodney Atkins. Dustin Lynch. Kiefer Thompson (fromThompson Square)
Carrie Underwood. Eric Paslay. Lauren Alaina
Both of the Bellamy Brothers. Jannie Frickie. Easton Corkin
Canaan Smith. Billy Ray Cyrus. Trisha Yearwood.
For the most part, as a country girl at heart, I enjoyed the book. It took me 2 days to read…..BUT, I have a big problem!
Not so much with the artists per se BUT with Zondervan who compiled this collection. As another reviewer pointed out there are some fantastically deep and very encouraging insights, but on two different occasions I think the devotional fell way short!
#1- one of the author musicians said ” this May sound simple, butI think our world could stop fighting over differences in religion if we all realized that we really believe the same thing. God, by any name you choose is Love. It’s that simple.” ……..WHOA SLOW THAT PRETTY PONY DOWN! Not quite. She shows herself quite uninformed. God is not a God of contradiction and by making that statement that is exactly what she is stating. You will be shocked if you sit down with Other religions bibles and read hatred and scorn for other faiths and nationalities!……and just as a side note this book is called Country FAITH. there is a drastic difference between Faith and Religion.
#2 Another author/singer starts off her thoughts with this phrase “Amidst all the Bible’s lofty language……” My question is what Bible are you reading? In a book that shows great mercy, grace, love and compassion how can you say it’s lofty?
So here’s my rating…I give it two and a half stars. I can’t recommend this book because I don’t want to confuse others that might be struggling in their faith and yet, like I said earlier, there are aome great testimonies and very deep thoughts, and by those I was very impressed!
