Finding God in the Ordinary

We tend to look for God in the grand and spectacular but most of our lives are filled with ordinary moments and routines: drinking coffee reading a book driving to work. Can we find God in the banalities of everyday life? In Finding God in the Ordinary the author shows that we can and that we must. Our world is not an ordinary world. Because it was spoken into being and maintained by the word of Gods power (Heb 1:3) everything around us is always revealing the nature and character of the triune God. Our world is extraordinarily ordinary always calling our attention to the God of glory and his work in the commonplace. I loved this short book by Pierce Taylor Hibbs on finding God in the ordinary. It is Scriptural wise and beautifully written. Reformed theologians are not supposed to write natural theologies but the Bible itself says that God is clearly revealed in the creation and that means not only in the big things like the skies and the mountains but also in small things like my morning cup of coffee. This book will help you to see God everywhere for that is where he is. --John M. Frame author of Natures Case for God This book is a tremendous stimulus to seeing the world as God would have us see it and interacting with the world as God would have us interact. It helps us by showing what was always there Gods presence in the ordinary. Creative illuminating and godly. --Vern S. Poythress author of Knowing and the Trinity The meditations upon lifes commonplaces that Pierce Taylor Hibbs has crafted in this remarkable volume are Dillard-like in their penetrating observations of creation and Hopkins-like in their Glory be to God for dappled things celebration of the Creators work. And more because Hibbs meditations are grounded in a robust polychrome doctrine of the Holy Trinity they help us to see the work of the three-personed God in all of life--the extraordinary ordinary of our own lives. --R. Kent Hughes author of Disciplines of a Godly Man In this precious volume Pierce Hibbs has done what few can achieve. These pages credibly combine the eye of a keen observer of the world around with statements about Gods nature and purposes. Putting it that way sounds a bit grandiose for the book is both playful and lyrical at times overflowing into poetry. . . . Interspersed are Hibbss insights into language which is his great specialty. This is a book I would give to many people believers or not as it would introduce them to our God whom they would meet in the ordinary. --William Edgar author of Created and Creating Pierce has a contagious child-like sense of wonder in the everyday moments and opportunities so many of us miss leading to theological and worshipful reflection of God and all his glory. Read this book devotionally to regain your sense of awe and connect it to your sense of Gods presence in the world he created. --Aimee Byrd author of Theological Fitness Pierce Taylor Hibbs serves as the Associate Director of the Theological English department at Westminster Theology Seminary. He is the author of The Trinity Language and Human Behavior (2018) and The Speaking Trinity & His Worded World (2019). He writes regularly at wordsfortheologians.org.