02336cam a2200325 i 4500 1858428383 TxAuBib 20250115120000.0 160126s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016002844 9781601428165 hardcover 1601428162 hardcover (OCoLC)918282737 TxAuBib rda Rodriguez, Samuel, 1969-, author. Be light : shining God's beauty, truth, and hope into a darkened world / Samuel Rodriguez ; foreword by Roma Downey. First edition. Colorado Springs, Colorado : WaterBrook Press, [2016] xii, 212 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. Be light! -- Knowing light -- Overcoming darkness -- We emit what we absorb -- Increasing our internal temperature -- The law of reflection -- Refraction: bending light and bending lives -- Why is the sky blue? -- Burn bright -- LASER-focused for the Lord -- We must have oil for our lamps -- Shining brightly in a world of brilliance -- No lucky stars, just God's heavenly bodies -- When the jar breaks, our lamps will shine -- No half-life -- The inefficiency of incandescence -- "Light bringers" for a new generation -- The lightning flash -- Celestial light -- The brightest magnetic objects -- Light and our crown -- Let the wind blow on us -- Earthquake light -- The light of massive collisions -- Lightships -- Fire! -- Safelight -- The milky way -- The church is the light -- To be light and shine forever. Light has always defined God and his followers. At creation, God spoke light into existence. Jesus is the light of the world. And we are born to absorb and then reflect God's light. Rodriguez provides a blueprint for confronting darkness in every realm of our lives. He issues a clarion call for individual believers and the church to rise up and once again be a bright city on a hill, exposing the invading darkness, and overcoming it with God's blazing light. 20250115. Christian life. Light and darkness in the Bible. TXLIV