The Familiar Stranger

For a generation searching desperately for an experiential spirituality, there's good news: the Holy Spirit's indwelling presence to empower and transform is freely available. Unfortunately, confusion and unfamiliarity surround the Person of the Holy Spirit, leading too many Christians either to sideline him or misunderstand what he means for their spiritual lives.

In The Familiar Stranger, Tyler Staton reintroduces this oft-neglected Person of the Trinity, tracing the story of the Holy Spirit as it unfolds throughout the Bible, and inviting believers to close the gap between what Scripture reveals about the Holy Spirit and their lived experience.

Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools

Prayer is, without a doubt, the source of Jesus’ most astounding promises. And yet, most people, even most Bible-believing Christians, find little life in prayer. Prayer is boring or obligatory or confusing or, most often, all of the above. Prayer is more than just listing requests, though.

Prayer is an invitation to learn to listen to God before speaking, to ask like a child in your old age, to scream your questions in an angry tirade, to undress yourself in vulnerable confession, and to be loved, completely and totally loved, in spite of everything. Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools is not a book, it’s an invitation to discover the life-giving relationship promised to you and won on your behalf by Jesus.

Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools is now available at your favorite bookstore in the US + UK.

Searching for Enough

Stuck between two unsatisfying stories. That’s where we find ourselves. The story of the world masks our deepest longings but ultimately leaves us wanting. The story of Jesus is an attractive alternative but the version we’re handed can appear cheap and flimsy against the weight of real life in a contested world.

But what if doubt is not an emotion to fear but an invitation to follow? And what if faith is found, not in ignoring our doubt, disillusionment, and disappointment, but in confronting it?

Thomas, Scripture’s most notorious skeptic, is nicknamed, ‘The Twin’ a fitting title because, in a way, he’s all of our twin, caught between two unsatisfying stories: Wanting to believe but unable to honestly reconcile Jesus with today’s circumstances.

Searching For Enough is an invitation to find in our own messy lives what Thomas found in his: a story better than shame, redemption so complete there’s nothing left to hide, a God who heals not the symptoms but the root.