Ben Patterson is campus pastor at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. He has served churches in New Jersey and California and was dean of the chapel at Hope College in Michigan before going to Westmont College. He is the author of Deepening Your Conversation with God and is a back-page columnist for Leadership Journal and a contributor to Christianity Today.
Read and keep as resource. This book builds a case for the joyful Christian life, and helpfully reminds that it is maintained in simple, practiced obedience to Christ's teachings. It is full of excellent quotes and illustrations. The writing overall is loose, conversational, and unpolished. Fast read.