A review by samuelblakey
Strangely Bright: Can You Love God and Enjoy This World? by Joe Rigney

5.0

This book functions like a condensed and focused version of Rigney’s earlier work The Things of Earth (also highly recommended). Rigney does a very good job of explaining how we can use the things that surround us in our everyday life—food, family, even baseball—to point us to the God who has graciously given those things to us. I especially appreciate his focus in the last half of the book on still holding the things of earth loosely: being willing to forgo pleasures for the sake of God, generously giving as an expression of God’s love for His creation, and enduring suffering of all sorts well because our trust in the Lord is greater than our trust in created things.