This week we want to welcome Author/Musician Strahan Coleman to the Podcast to talk about his new book "Beholding". What he has wrote is nothing short of amazing and it was a pleasure to sit down with him and dig into what inspired this book!
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– In our confused, divisive, and hyper-connected worldpeople are struggling to find real meaning and wonder. But behind the chaos and post-Christianculture, human hearts are still experiencing a divine ache, desiring morelove, more beauty, and more God.In his new book, Beholding: Deepening Our Experience in God (on saleFeb. 7, 2023) award-winning musician and founder of the popular ministryCommoners Communion, Strahan Coleman shares how his journey of pain,depression, and anxiety moved his working relationship with God to a deepfriendship. He invites readers into a richer life of prayer by giving upconsumer Christianity for a beautiful life of seeing and being seen by God.Coleman was living an extraordinary life in his twenties touring as amusicianary with his wife and living week to week in faith while Godfaithfully provided financial provision and bountiful global connections.Coleman witnessed miraculous stories of healing and deliverance throughhis songs. However, several years later God’s blessings seemed to come to ascreeching halt.
“We were taking leaps of faith across continents and following the Spirit’s invitation to love thosewho didn’t yet know Him,” said Coleman. “We were giving it everything when my body decided toshut down and slowly give way to frequent sickness and, in turn, depression and anxiety.“For several years, I spent most of my time in bed. My head constantly spun, and I lived with anenduring mental fog. And it wasn’t just the sickness. Overnight the provision ended, the storiesstopped, and the miraculous connections dissipated. Cars, dishwashers, and computers broke. Itwas hard to love a God who stood by as my life fell apart. Especially after everything I’d done forHim.”
Through his enduring bedridden journey of physical pain, loneliness and disappointment with God,Coleman decided to use this time of stillness to relearn how to pray, and he realized he’d beenpraying in reverse his entire life. In Beholding Coleman shares why prayer is a way of being withGod in the everyday through our minds and bodies. Additionally, he provides practical mental andphysical ways to improve our prayer lives from different Christian traditions.About Strahan ColemanStrahan Coleman is a writer, spiritual director, and award-winning musician from Aotearoa, NewZealand. After spending ten years recording and travelling as a folk artist, he founded CommonersCommunion in 2017, a ministry exploring conversations in Christian spirituality. Since then, he hasgiven himself to his passion of helping others deepen their experience in God through his writing,podcast, spiritual retreats, and online prayer schools. He has published Beholding (Feb. 2023) andthree prayer books, Prayer Vol. 01, 02, and 03, poetic devotionals inviting the reader into a deeperhonesty, vulnerability, and closeness with God. Strahan currently lives by the beach in theCoromandel in Aotearoa, New Zealand with his wife, Katie, and three sons, Mikal, Theodore, andFinley.
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