Cover Reveal + Pre-order

Years in the making. Here it is.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been holding onto something for a few weeks now, and I’m finally ready to share it.

My book has a cover!

This thing started as a digital file on my iMac … just chapters and cursor blinks on a screen. Then it became a printed manuscript I could hold in my hands, flip through, mark up with a pen. And now it has a cover. The IVP design team did an incredible job.

Here it is:

This is the cover of Dwelling in Christ: Discover the Threefold Path of Spiritual Transformation, releasing this fall from IVP Formatio with a foreword by Richard J. Foster.

Let me walk you through what I see.

Look at the water in the foreground. To me, that’s the purgative journey—the early, often difficult work of moving through what needs to be shed.

Then your eye moves to the rising plane of land leading toward the house. That’s the illuminative way—where we start to gain our footing in the Christian life, even as it’s still an uphill climb toward something we can see but haven’t quite reached.

And then there’s the house in the distance. That dwelling place is union—life with God, life with the Trinity. If you look closely, there are three small lights glowing from within: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

I’m so thankful for this cover. It communicates so much of the journey.

This book has been ten years in the making, shaped by my own winding path of spiritual formation, by the deep wells of the Renovaré community, and by a growing conviction that most of us are exhausted by a version of transactional faith.

Pre-order Today

Today, pre-orders officially begin:

Pre-order Bonus

And if you pre-order, I’ll send you the entire first chapter as a PDF so you can start reading right away. Just forward your order confirmation to book@jonathanrbailey.com and I’ll send it your way.

Pre-orders are how a book like this gets a fighting chance. They’re what tells the industry that people are paying attention. If the themes of this book resonate with you, ordering now makes a real difference—and sharing this email with someone who needs it makes an even bigger one!

More to come in the weeks ahead. For now, thanks for being with me on this journey.

Grateful,
Jon

P.S. Now that you’ve seen the outside, stay tuned … in the coming weeks I’ll be giving you a look at what’s inside.