Beholding
Deepening Our Experience In God

I wish I could explain to you how this book and the work of Strahan Coleman has altered the landscape of my heart and stirred up more love and hope than I believed possible. The image of Psalm 1 comes to mind, of a tree planted by streams of living water - a tree with deep roots and wide branches, d......more

Strahan’s book itself is a gift to behold. It exposes the honest hardship of suffering and uses personal accounts to emphasise the true rest that can be found in intimate communion, of beholding God and letting Him behold us. Strahan depicts the ache that the common, western church goer has often fa......more

This is a great book on prayer that I will be recommending to all my staff. Not overly profound or gimmicky or dramatic. Just rooted in beautiful prayer practice. Coleman’s focus is on what he calls “beholding prayer.” This was one of my favorite parts about the book and one of the reasons it resonat......more

As someone who cried to Billie Eilish’s Barbie song “what was I made for,” I found this concluding statement comforting, encouraging, and a great summary to this great book! “I’ve found what I was made for, to gaze into the God of beauty and to find Him gazing back at me with His eyes of knowing love......more

Buckle in: I've got a lot of thoughts. This is a unique book. I find it very flawed and yet I've shelved it as one of my favorite books of all time - maybe this is because I couldn't help but to think that this read was very much a contemporary and more practical version of The Practice of the Presen......more