After Amen: 50 Days of Poetry and Prayer
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Pastor and beloved author Tyler Staton shares a personal and profound creative devotional to draw us deeper into God's truth and beauty.
Are you ready to explore the remarkable reality of God's beauty? After his shocking Stage 4 cancer diagnosis, pastor and author Tyler Staton found himself cast into a wilderness of emotion. Amid the struggle, he found strength in the familiar solaces of prayer, contemplation, and Scripture, but also through an unexpected source-writing carefully crafted poetry. Even after going into remission, this practice awakened a new appreciation in Tyler for how God uses beauty to draw us powerfully to himself.
After Amen contains inspiring chapters on the role of creativity and beauty in the Christian life, as well as a core of 50 entries which feature biblical reflection, heartfelt prayer, and a short original poem from Tyler. Focusing on Jesus's seven signs in the gospel of John, readers will encounter their own lives with new appreciation and inspired insight, as Tyler shows how all of life, joy and suffering, is an opportunity to be formed more completely in the image of Jesus. This exceptional book is an inspiring, provocative, and beautiful exploration of how much of our spiritual life truly happens not only with what we say during prayer, but what we live After Amen.
Praise for After Amen
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Few things slow us down, and crack us open like poetry; done well, it can soften the heart, attune the spirit, arrest us with beauty, and carry us through a literary portal into union with God. One minute we're reading, the next we're caught up in the love of the Trinity and the beautiful mystery of life. My friend Tyler Staton has given a rare gift - a collection of writings that intentionally blurs the line between poetry and prayer. As Tyler explains, the Western Church gave up poetry for music, to mixed effect. All of us who are finding our way backward through the treasure trove of Christian history will find in this book much joy. - John Mark Comer, Founder & Teacher, Practicing the Way
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I read this book with an overwhelming sense of relief. It's an exquisite offering - lyrical, contemplative, playful and wise, from one of the most thoughtful, prayerful and poetic souls I know. - Pete Greig
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In After Amen Tyler Staton weaves biblical insight, prophetic inspiration and poetry in this stunning exploration of poetry and prayer. This fifty-day guide is both accessible and deep, awakening us step by step to a deeper, healthier and more attentive spiritual life. - Dr Amy Orr-Ewing, Founder, Advocate Collective
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