No, in spite of my misgivings I came away feeling inspired and enlivened by what I’d read. Tramp for the Lord (Mass Market Paperback) by Corrie ten Boom (shelved 10 times as corrie-ten-boom) avg rating 4. She often put her own life at risk travelling to Communist and war torn African countries to speak to and inspire other Christians. Tramp For The Lord follows Corrie ten Boom’s ministry travels around the world following the events of her previous book The Hiding Place. For in these pages I read of a woman who God had continued to inspire, even after the loss of her mother, sister and auntie and her own experience in a concentration camp, to carry on spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ throughout the World. I sometimes feel that her faith was bordering on the common criticism of Evangelicalism that it can reduce God to a slot machine in a penny arcade that pays out on every pull of the handle.īut maybe that’s my problem, something of my own cynicism.

Do I not trust God enough? If I ask for money or air tickets in order to do His work will he provide for me in the same way? You do not get because you do not ask? ten Boom seems to have a depth of trust in divine provision way beyond my own, something which at times challenged me. I gave the book four stars because of its accessibility and it’s simple but profound messages. It is most definitely rooted in the Evangelical tradition, something I admit to having moved away from in my own spiritual journey.

The collection of anecdotes each has a spiritual lesson attached to it. Tramp for the Lord is a book of short vignettes of evangelist Corrie ten Boom’s life following hermrelease from the Nazi concentration camp at Ravensbrück, spanning almost forty years.

Tramp for the Lord by Corrie ten Boom