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In an age when Christianity often feels heavy with anxiety, control, and fear, many believers quietly long for something different—something closer to the good news Jesus proclaimed.
What if the heart of the faith was never meant to be a burden, but an invitation?
In this thoughtful collection of essays, Dr. Peter A. Kerr offers a fresh vision of Christianity centered on God as holy love—radiant, abundant, and utterly free from coercion. Drawing deeply from Scripture and the riches of the Christian tradition, these pages explore how holiness is fullness rather than severity, prayer is participation rather than persuasion, and human freedom is the very space where genuine love can flourish.
With warmth and clarity, Kerr reframes familiar truths: God does not need our glory—He overflows with it. He does not coerce our wills—He invites our hearts. He forms us through patient love rather than managing outcomes.
Whether you are weary of performance-driven faith, wrestling with doubt, or simply seeking a deeper trust in God’s goodness, these essays meet you with honesty and hope. They do not demand agreement. They extend an invitation: to see God anew, to pray without fear, and to live in the freedom of a love that refuses to force its way.
A Deo Lumen is light enough to walk by—and bright enough to change the way you see everything.
Dr. Peter A. Kerr is Dean of the School of Business and Leadership at Colorado Christian University and an ordained minister with decades of experience in teaching, writing, and global ministry.
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1. Love Above Glory
2. God Is Holy (as fullness, not severity)
3. The Image of God as the Capacity for Holiness
4. What Is a Reflection?
5. Perfectly Free Human Will: God Refuses to Destroy His Image in Us
6. LUMEN as Theological Grammar and Acronym
7. Why Christianity Has Quietly Drifted into Control
8. God of Love or God of Power
9. Faith as Trust Not Force: Not Lack of Sight but Fulness of Insight
10. An Invitation into Light, Freedom, and Joy
11. Saved from the Defeated Christian Life
12. Prayer as Participation: Why God Invites Us to Ask
13. Why God Often Waits for Us to Ask
14. Nagging Faithless Prayer vs. Powerful Participatory Prayer
15. Divine Partnership and Pedagogy: Why God Acts When We Pray
16. Prayer Is Learning the Dance
17. Changing the Way We Pray
18. The Great Dance Behind All Things
19. Anxiety, Sin, and Prayer: Trust, not Control, Heals the Anxious Mind
20. How Do We Live with Suffering?
21. Why the Image of God Was Never Broken
22. More Reasons to Reject Traditional “Sin Nature”
23. Why Faith not Sight: Space to Learn Love
24. Maturing in the Faith
25. Faith to do the Miraculous
26. Sin as Self-Worship and Misdirected Love
27. The Trinity: Love at the Heart of Reality
28. The Breadth and Depth of Holy-Love
29. The LUSTER of Forgiveness: Analogy of Mirrors
30. Holiness as Participation, Not Perfection
31. Work as Worship: Participation, Not Performance
32. LUMEN and Wesleyanism: The Wesleyan Vision Comes Fully into Focus
33. LUMEN and Reformed Theology
34. LUMEN and Catholicism
35. LUMEN and Eastern Orthodox
36. What LUMEN Is Not (and Why That Matters)
37. How God as Holy is at the Center
38. Why God Waits to Act
39. Love as the Only Worthy Gift
40. How This Theology Changed the Way I Pray…and Me
41. Why Holiness, Prayer, and Freedom Cannot Be Separated
42. An Invitation: Christianity the Way It Was Meant to Be
Concluding Invitation: Light Enough to Walk By