Running the Race: Devotionals Encouraging Discipleship. This item is unavailable.Running the Race: Devotionals Encouraging Discipleship

This devotional book is for followers of Christ who want encouragement in running the race that God has set before them. Each week focuses on a spiritual topic related to discipleship that is important in helping a believer run his or her race. Five daily devotionals address the same theme. The last two days of each week ask questions that encourage the reader to apply what has been read and provide a starter prayer. The devotionals are written to be more meat than milk, more challenging than feel good. Devotionals are written from all 66 books of the Bible.

Bill Blount grew up in Clinton, NC, where he became a follower of Jesus at age thirteen. He graduated from NC State University in 1972 with a degree in experimental statistics. After graduation he joined the US Navy and served for 22 years as a Supply Corps officer. He received a masters' degree in petroleum management in 1984 from the University of Kansas. His sea tours included USS Gurnard (SSN 662) and USS America (CV 66). Shore duty tours included Japan, Hawaii, Norfolk, VA and Jacksonville, FL, where he met and married his wife Patricia in 1978. His final assignment was a US Central Command in Tampa, FL during which he spent five months in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for Operation Desert Shield/Storm. After retiring from the military, he taught mathematics for eighteen years, primarily at Bloomingdale High School in Brandon, FL. While there, he earned his National Board Certification and also served as the mathematics' department head. Bill and Patricia were blessed with fraternal twins, Paul and Lindsay, in 1982. For over forty years Bill has been a Bible teacher in local churches, homes, and lately, prisons.