“Chasing the Wind” is a book about the grace of God applied to life.

William Boyd Chisum is an accomplished musician/singer, and an excellent songwriter, but he is more than that, he is a marvelous story teller.

In this book, Boyd tells the story of how God’s grace rescued him from “Chasing the Wind” and delivered him into a life of service for Jesus Christ. To one degree or another we all have been given trials and/or tests -- For to you it has been granted on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake (Phil. 1:29.)

Relatively few people have been called upon by the Lord to suffer a lifetime of the physical impairments that Boyd has endured throughout his life. But, in preparation for him to become a spokesman to deliver God’s message, God says, “My grace is sufficient.”

What Boyd communicates so well in this book is, “I’m a winner, and you can be a winner also by relying upon God’s grace to guide you through your life.” As he explains some the failures and successes of his life, your heart will break, but with the simple turn of a page those same tears of empathy will transform into tears of laughter.  In the end, Boyd will bring you to a realization that the answers to life’s quest are found in the application of divine grace to the circumstances of life.

I have spent most of my adult life teaching men and women how to communicate God’s grace in a way that makes it applicable to life’s experiences and circumstances. To become effective in that endeavor, one must define, describe, illustrate, demonstrate, and motivate the student concerning the subject of grace.

Boyd defines grace as that which God is now free to do for him based upon what Jesus Christ did through the cross on his behalf.

He describes how, by faith, at an early age, he received God’s grace, gaining an assurance that, as a child of God, he knew his eternal destiny was determined and secure.

He then describes how he walked away from God’s grace, choosing to go his own way, “Chasing the Wind,” seeking, fame, fortune, and fans in the pursuit of stardom in Country Music.

He then made a transition from using his enormous, God given, gifts and talents to become a celebrity artist in Country Music to excelling in the medical profession, which he accomplished with real class. But, as Boyd says, even that was “Chasing the Wind” and refusing to acknowledge God’s grace in his life.

Boyd illustrates that his life of running from God’s grace was an anomaly of extremes -- extreme debilitating pain, extreme physical handicap, extreme gifts and talents, extreme worldly success, and extreme spiritual failure – but, in the face of this anomaly, God’s grace sustained him, in spite of himself, preparing him to become a winner.

As Boyd took up an intensive study of the Word of God, he began to learn how to demonstrate God’s grace in his life. Boyd finally learned that ‘chasing the wind’ is to be replaced with the ‘pursuit of grace’

Just as Solomon, the author of the book of Ecclesiastes, came to the understanding that self-centeredness is “Chasing the Wind,” Boyd, along with Solomon, reports the solution is to become Christ-centered, by focusing on God’s grace and the blessings that flow out of that dedication.

This book will motivate you to apply God’s provision to the disasters and failures that exist within your human experiences and circumstances.

Boyd’s message is, no matter how far you have strayed from God’s plan for your life, no matter what kind of calamity you face in your life, no matter how sin has distracted your obedience to God’s will for your life, God’s grace is sufficient to forgive, restore, and sustain you in your desire to return to a worthy walk with Jesus Christ.

“Chasing the Wind” is a book about the abounding, amazing, marvelous grace of God and it has the potential to change your life.

In His Wonderful Grace,

Earl D. Radmacher

Earl Radmacher, is the General Editor of, "The NKJV Study Bible" from Thomas Nelson Publishers. He is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary (Th.M.,Th.D.) and served for more than Thirty years as President (later Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology) of Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon. He now serves as president and/or board member of several Christian organizations and he also serves as President of Regal Grace, a ministry designed to help believers fully understand the grace of God and prepare for life in the coming kingdom.