For more than a year now, I’ve been working on and off on a project conceived of as book+podcast. I’m close enough to the finish line to share the name with you: The Lord Is My Light: A Liturgy for Daily Prayer.
The Lord Is My Light is a structured plan for prayer and Bible reading. It arranges biblical texts to highlight themes and connections in God’s Word and then surrounds them with confessions and prayers drawn from the breadth of Christian history. At its heart is a simple hope: that regular, prayerful meditation on God’s Word, week after week and season after season, might shape us over time into people who walk in the light.
Many of you are familiar with my 30 Days series of prayer books on the Psalms, the life of Jesus, and the letters of Paul. Those volumes follow a three-times-a-day rhythm, guiding readers through particular portions of Scripture with consistency and focus. Readers of that series have often asked for a once-a-day version, and for something that would carry them beyond one section of Scripture into the grand sweep of the whole Bible.
Those requests became the seed of this project. Then the seed grew. (Boy, did it grow!)
‘The Lord Is My Light’: The Book
The Lord Is My Light will cover every day of the year, with additional readings to account for the way Easter shifts the church calendar. In the end, the volume will contain 396 daily liturgies, with a word count that exceeds 475,000. I didn’t fully grasp the size of the task when I began. I do now.
What has sustained me through the long process is the conviction that this kind of reverent attentiveness is needed now more than ever. We live in a distracted age, trained for speed and marked by fragmentation. A daily liturgy slows us down. It trains our loves. It reminds us that we belong to a long line of forefathers and mothers in the faith who have read these same Scriptures and prayed their hearts out to the same Lord.
In partnership with Holman Bibles, we’re now in the final design phase. We’re working carefully toward what we hope will be not only a biblically rich prayer book but also a beautiful and usable one. Something sturdy enough for daily use and inviting enough to return to day after day. I feel both relief and awe to be at this stage.
‘The Lord Is My Light’: The Podcast
For The Lord Is My Light, Holman is also developing a companion podcast. I’m just as excited about the podcast as I am the book, and a little nervous about it too.
The vision is ambitious: a well-produced, daily audio liturgy that walks listeners through the same prayer rhythm, using multiple voices, steady pacing, and ambient music designed to clear space for giving full attention to the Lord, who is our light. The goal of the podcast isn’t commentary or teaching but attentiveness to the Word of the Lord and responsiveness in prayer.
This audio project has required even more collaboration. I’ve begun reaching out to pastors and friends, singers and songwriters, composers and producers. As the recordings begin, the one thing I’m adamant about with everyone who lends their voice is this: We will not record believers just reading the prayers but actually praying them. I want every listener to be truly joining another voice in prayer and, together, ascending to the throne of grace.
As with the book, there is still work ahead. More decisions to be made. More recording and listening required. I covet your prayers for this part of the project as well, that it would serve the church faithfully and help cultivate, day after day, a quiet attentiveness before the living God.
Coming: Advent 2026.
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