The Living in the Light Series · Ed Smith

Stop managing your life. Start living in the light.

For the man who is functional on the surface and hiding underneath. Three books and a companion workbook that move you from managing sin to being renewed by the truth of who God says you are — identity-driven, not behavior-driven.

3 + 1
books & a workbook
Identity renewal for menGrounded in Scripture
The Apology You Owe — Book One Living in the Light — Book Two Beside, Not Above — Book Three
The Series

One arc, walked one truth at a time.

The confession, the framework it produced, and the call to walk beside the next man still in hiding — plus the workbook that puts it into practice.

The Apology You Owe by Ed Smith
Book One

The Apology You Owe

How the hiding ended — and the work that began on the other side of it.

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Living in the Light by Ed Smith
Book Two

Living in the Light

The five-stage Transformation Path — a curriculum-ready framework for being renewed.

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Beside, Not Above by Ed Smith
Book Three

Beside, Not Above

Walking men out of hiding — with a chapter from Cindy in her own voice.

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Living in the Light Companion Workbook by Ed Smith
Companion

The Workbook

The Path made tangible — prompts and practices to walk it for yourself.

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The Transformation Path

Five stages. Each grounded in Scripture.

Not a checklist — a path to be walked, one day and one thought at a time. It is the process of becoming who you already are in Christ.

I
Exposure
Proverbs 28:13
II
Identity
2 Cor 5:17
III
Renewal
Romans 12:2
IV
Restoration
Luke 19:8
V
Legacy
Isaiah 61:3
Ed Smith and his wife Cindy
The Author

Ed Smith

I did not write these books from a place of having it figured out. I wrote them from the other side of having everything I had been hiding come fully into the light.

Transformation isn't about trying harder. It's about seeing yourself the way God already does — and learning to live from that.

I live in the Dallas area with my wife Cindy, active in recovery ministry and Bible study. Everything I write is aimed at one thing: helping men move from managing their lives to living in truth.

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!"
2 Corinthians 5:17
Begin the series

The door out of hiding is an apology.

Start where the story starts. The Apology You Owe is available now — and the rest of the Path follows from it.