Walking with Bilbo

By Sarah Arthur

2005 Logos Bookstores Award winner for Best Youth Book

The author of Walking with Frodo takes readers on an adventure of faith with this devotional that relates themes from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit to living the Christian life. Unlike the fateful quest Frodo was asked to carry out, Bilbo's journey came as an unexpected adventure. Readers will be reminded that God chooses us to be unlikely heroes in the adventure of life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
• Release date: Feb 1, 2005
• ISBN: 9781414332727

Sarah Arthur

Sarah is the author of over twelve books ranging from bestselling devotionals to critical engagement with literature. A graduate of Wheaton College and Duke University Divinity School, she's a founding board member of the annual C.S. Lewis Festival and served as writer-in-residence for the Frederick Buechner Writers Workshop at Princeton Theological Seminary. She's also the preliminary fiction judge for the Christianity Today Book Awards, through which she grades on a L’Engle-inspired curve. She can't wait till her two little boys are old enough to be read aloud A Wrinkle in Time.

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Reviews for Walking with Bilbo

[mister2x · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This was remarkably thoughtful. Tolkien fans, the author knows her stuff. And the topics are integrate well with themes of faith. This shouldn't be that surprising given Tolkien's faith-steeped imagination. I will definitely check out the author's other stuff.

[sueincyprus · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A light devotional book based around Tolkien's 'The Hobbit'. The author looks at how the Christian life is an adventure, and we need sometimes to step out of our ordered existence to follow where God leads. Well-written and quite thought-provoking. For teens or adults.

[diananagy · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This was a pretty good book. I went through it really quickly. And there were a few really good notes that I had to remove from the book that I wanted to save later, for example: Through the treacherous landscapes of sin, God has mapped out the way of righteousness and instructs us to walk in it. "Be good," we hear him saying throughout the pages of the Bible: "Take care of yourself. And stick to the path!" The point of the path is not somehow to lead us away from what the world calls fun, but to help us survive itself with our dignity intact and to enable us to accomplish the mission. But we're not left to do this on our own. God sent Jesus, not only to be our guide and leader, but to be the path itself." Its a great book and I recommend to anyone who loves the Lord