Jerry W. Gist
Award-Winning Christian Author
Author of Faith-Driven Stories and Spiritual Reflections. Exploring belief, obedience, and the eternal questions of life.
A Calling to Write
The writer in me was never born; it slept within me, stirring through the seasons of my life, until the day I finally awakened to the truth that it had always been mine to claim.
Book 2 of 3 in the Awakening Series.
Sleeping in the Light is the second book in a three-part spiritual journey. The first exposed the danger of belief without obedience. The third explores what remains when faith becomes habit. This book stands in the middle—where awareness awakens and avoidance becomes impossible.
It examines souls that remain close to truth without fully submitting to it—and traces how repeated resistance quietly trains them to sleep.
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Book 1 of 3 in the Awakening Series
When Belief Isn't Enough is the first book in a three-part spiritual journey. It confronts the unsettling truth that belief alone—without obedience—can produce a false sense of security rather than genuine faith.
It examines souls that have embraced sound doctrine yet withheld full surrender—and traces how conviction, divorced from action, slowly hollows faith from the inside.
Book 3 of 3 of the Awakening Seres
Could This Be All There Is? Maybe Not is the third book in a three-part spiritual journey. It follows those outside of faith entirely—men and women who have built their lives on achievement and success, only to find that every plateau reached leaves the same quiet question unanswered.
It examines souls that have everything ambition can deliver yet cannot name what is missing—and traces how emptiness, dressed in accomplishment, eventually demands more than the world can give.
About Jerry W. Gist
Jerry W. Gist is a Christian author who writes stories and reflections that explore the intersection of faith, truth, and the deeper questions of life. Through both fiction and nonfiction, his work challenges readers to look beyond surface belief and consider the eternal consequences of what they truly believe.
His books confront spiritual deception, awaken conviction, and point readers toward a deeper understanding of faith, obedience, and the reality of eternity.
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The Sound of Silence — Moral of the Story Series