Rising Into God’s Ordination

This is not a book about self-improvement dressed in spiritual language. I have no interest in adding another set of steps to your already full life. What I want, and what I believe God wants, is for you to see yourself rightly, as a tree planted with purpose, as a stone fitted into something larger than yourself, as a field still being cultivated rather than a harvest already finished. Growth, I have come to believe, is not a private achievement. It happens in soil, among stones, within a body. You were never meant to rise alone.

I wrote these pages the way I preach them: with conviction, with warmth, and with an unshakeable confidence that the God who began this work in you has every intention of bringing it to fruit.

So take this book the way you would take a walk with your pastor after a long service, unhurried, honest, and expectant. Turn the page. Let us begin.