ISBN-13: 9780872432231

Many persons are leaving the institutional church today in search of something tangible, comforting, therapeutic and life-affirming entirely unaware that the Gospel offers all this and more. Christians from the days of the Apostles until now have known this assurance. The trouble is that it doesn't come easy for it must be sought and acquired only through discipline, prayer, meditation and contemplation. Russell Hart uses seventeen icons of saints he himself has painted (they appear in full color in the book) as introductions to these disciplines and accompanies these with the spiritual exercises he performed prior to production of the images seeking to express the Light of God in a visible way.