I loved Arndt's desire to see readers move deeper in their spiritual lives. Perhaps because I've read other books on the subject that impacted me greatly, I didn't find this book particularly compelling. It seemed to repeat ideas I've read often before. I also felt like Arndt as a writer didn't truly open himself up to the readers. His personal examples seemed more surface than some of the stories he told of others, and even those didn't draw me in. Not a bad book, but just not great. If asked, I'd tell others to try it. It may speak to them more than it did to me.

I adored this book, and yet I hesitated to share as one of my featured books in the Woman Alive book club as it’s by an American pastor that you and I have probably never heard of. But I loved this book and would love you to read it too.

Andrew dives deeply into a conversation about the Trinity, and how God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit relate not only to each other, but to us. A quotation reveals the heart of the book: “I want to grow in what the ancient men and women of faith often called ‘union with God’—that state of being where God is so present to and alive in us that it is difficult to know where God ends and we begin.”

In the last third he focuses on how three people – Mother Teresa, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Rich Mullins – lived out their life with the Trinity. Maybe because I enjoyed the theological musings so much, I was less taken with this section of the book. Our ideas of what union with God look like can vary from person to person, and thus seeing how someone understands that reality may not resonate with what our picture is. But, of course, others might love this section of the book.