Jumping Through Fires by David Nasser
David Nasser tells a good story. That is happens to be about him and real is even better. I know Nasser through his connection to the Glory Revealed projects. I read the book that he wrote in connection with the first CD. I still frequently listen to the two CDs that are part of that project.
I might have forgotten him, but he and his family are family friends with my wife’s cousin’s family. I haven’t ever met him, but I know they vacation together regularly and so I have heard about him.
I picked up this book when it was on sale at Audible.com. It isn’t him reading the book, but the narration is good.
David and his family escaped from Iran during the 1979 revolution. David’s father was a Colonel in the Iranian Air Force and was in danger of being killed under the new regime. They eventually made their way to the United States and David eventually became a Christian. This is the story of how that happened and how he has gone on to become a speaker and writer.
The book is fairly brief (the audio is unabridged and only 4 hours 21 minutes) or 171 pages in hardback. But like Just Courage by Gary Haugen, it is well worth the short read (or listen). This time it is more for the stories than the great insights. It is not that his insights are bad, but that his stories are really good.
I have been trying to do Morning and Evening fixed hour prayers (not so fixed in my life but trying). The evening prayer for this week (I am out of season but this is the prayer book I found for kindle) includes this line, “Give me instead things that are profitable for me and all who seek rightly to praise you. I ask this grace in the company of all believers…” David Nasser’s story is this for me. It is a profitable story that reminds me what it means to follow God. This is why I like Christian biographies so much. I cannot live just on Christian biography, I need more, but when I do read Christian biography like this I am nourished.
Any suggestions on a Christian biography that is particularly good.
