Jesus's Echo

S. M. Rath

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A child's steadfast faith in the midst of a family crisis--military parent wounded overseas--is proven to be essential. Story is stirring and inspiring.
Noah asks his grandmother: “Why did Daddy get hurt? Why didn’t God keep him safe? Why doesn’t God keep all the soldiers safe?”
When Noah’s father is overseas, Noah prays every day that his father will hear Jesus’s echo. As long as his father hears Jesus’s echo, Noah knows that his father will not be afraid.
After Noah’s father returns home wounded, Noah knows that his father needs to hear Jesus’s echo more than ever. As Noah’s father lies in the hospital, Noah helps his father hear what Jesus is speaking to him.
In Jesus’s Echo, one message from Jesus helps Noah’s father see what a precious gift his life is to his family—to those who love him.

Sujets

• Christian Living
• Religious
• Espiritual
• Spiritual
• Faith
• Fiction

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• Publié par: WestBow Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781664290068
• Langue: English

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Jesus’s Echo
S. M. Rath


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WestBow Press rev. date: 01/31/2023
CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Noah and His Father
Chapter 2 Noah’s Promise
Chapter 3 Noah Says Goodbye
Chapter 4 Noah and His Sunday School Class
Chapter 5 Noah and the Baby Jesus
Chapter 6 Noah’s Faith
Chapter 7 Noah and His Grandmother
Chapter 8 Noah and Uncle Bob
Chapter 9 Noah and Pastor Paul
Chapter 10 Noah and His Mother
Chapter 11 Noah Visits His Father
Chapter 12 Noah and Doctor Benton
Chapter 13 Pastor Paul’s Sermon: Jesus’s Echo
Chapter 14 Noah and Jesus’s Message

For all the soldiers who keep America safe and protect our freedoms today
and in loving memory of my father, John Junior, who did the same during WWII.

For God has not given us a spirit of fear,
but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
2 Timothy 1:7 NKJV
CHAPTER 1
Noah and His Father
K neeling on the floor in front of the coffee table, Noah emptied his box of toy soldiers. The green, plastic figures scattered across the wooden surface in disarray.
As Noah arranged his toy soldiers, he thought about being a real soldier someday. His father was a real soldier. His father was a soldier in the United States Army.
A short time later, Noah’s father entered the room, carrying his Bible. “Hi, Noah,” he said. “What are you doing?”
Noah smiled at his father. “I’m playing with my soldiers. Someday, I’m going to be a real soldier, just like you, Daddy.”
“That’s very honorable of you,” Noah’s father said. Noah’s father then sat on the couch, placed his Bible beside him, and asked his son, “Do you know why I wanted to be a soldier?”
Noah proudly answered, “Because you love our country.”
“That’s right,” Noah’s father said, smiling. “But do you know why I love our country?”
“Um . . .” Noah started to say. He was not sure why his father loved their county. Only that his father did.
Noah’s father patted the cushion beside him on the couch. “Will you sit with me?” he asked Noah.
Noah grabbed his favorite toy soldier and then sat on the couch beside his father. His father was a big, strong man, and Noah always felt safe when he was with his father.
“I love our country,” Noah’s father began, “because in our country we are free. Everyone who lives here is free to be whomever they want to be.”
“Like, I want to be a soldier when I grow up?” Noah asked.
“Yes,” Noah’s father said. “That is exactly right.”
Noah started spinning his favorite toy soldier around his finger and said, “I’m glad we’re free.”
“But we are free to do something much more important than that,” Noah’s father said.
Noah was suddenly full of wonder. “What, Daddy?”
Noah’s father reached for his Bible and placed it on his lap. He then placed his hands on top of the brown and creased cover. “In our country, we are free to worship God,” his father said, “and read about how much God loves all of us.”
Noah looked up at his father and asked, “Is everyone free?”
Noah’s father shook his head and sadly said, “No, Noah. Everyone is not free.”
Still looking up at his father, Noah searched his father’s deep blue eyes. He then asked his father, “What do they do?”
“Sometimes they come here,” Noah’s father said. “They come to America to live with us.”
Noah stopped spinning his favorite toy soldier around his finger and became thoughtful. “Is that why you became a soldier,” he asked his father, “to worship God?