Light When It Comes: Trusting Joy, Facing Darkness, and Seeing God in Everything

by Chris Anderson

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 2016

Overview

On finding joy and spiritual meaning in life’s small moments

We all have moments of joy, moments that move us somehow, spiritual moments that we can’t quite put a finger on. But then we rush on and soon forget. In this book Chris Anderson encourages us to remember and share such moments. What he writes will inspire readers who are hurting, doubting, or searching to find wisdom and meaning in their lives.

Drawing on an ancient prayer tradition, the examen of conscience, Anderson spurs readers to take stock of their own experiences. He shows how the examen can serve as a simple but powerful way to remember moments of light, of struggle, of joy. And however small or fleeting these moments are, through them God is always calling and meeting us.

Praise for Light When It Comes

Paula Huston
—author of Simplifying the Soul and One Ordinary Sunday
"Light When It Comes is both a literary gem and a cup of blessing for all who long to experience God’s presence."

Thomas Lynch
—author of The Undertaking and The Sin-Eater
"An age that has fashioned faith into bludgeon and cudgel, and traded community for self-righteous indignation, might better be illumined by Light When It Comes and by the grace of Anderson’s vital, studious witness. The ties of belief that bind us, each to the other, needn’t be rope enough to hang, cruel lash or rein or tether. Rather, lifeline, safe mooring, the holy, miraculous lowering of our hobbled, heart-wrecked selves to the place of our redeeming."

Lawrence S. Cunningham
—author of The Seven Deadly Sins and Things Seen and Unseen
"Chris Anderson offers us a triune gift wrapped into a whole: beautiful prose, pastoral experience, and an authentic believing eye turned to our world. This volume is a grace to be received with abundant thanks."

Methodist Recorder
"Here is a book which offers us tools, a method and a motive, for engaging with something unfamiliar in order to find ourselves more fully aware of the familiar presence of God."

Product Details

• Title : Light When It Comes: Trusting Joy, Facing Darkness, and Seeing God in Everything
• Author: Anderson, Chris
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Publication Date: 2016
• ISBN: 9781467445948

About Chris Anderson

Chris Anderson is the senior pastor at Killian Hill Baptist Church. He received a Bachelor of Arts in bible from Bob Jones University in 1994, and a Master of Arts in bible from Bob Jones University Seminary in 1997. Chris enjoys writing and is the author of many of the hymns on ChurchWorksMedia.com. Several of his texts have been published as octavos and recorded. He has written for a number of publications and also writes various and sundry thoughts on his blog, My Two Cents.