This Presenet Darkness

This Present Darkness is a great novel by Frank Peretti. It is the first out of a two part series: Piercing The Dark is the second one. But This Present Darkness goes into what it is like to be powerless against demonic forces, but also has the power of prayer and angelic forces. It focuses on a small town pastor and his parisioners and a few other random people throughout the town. It goes through how dangerous some things can be for a Christian to get involved in.

The battle that ensues between the two sides are amazing. Peretti's description of the demons are remarkable: one has a hard time generally picturing demons, But Peretti's demons tend to resemble what we would expect from evil forces of any size. He shows the dynamic between the higher up demons and the lowly smaller demons of doubt and depression. Each thing has it's own demon: depression, doubt, fear, anger, rape, etc...all demons in Peretti's world of This Present Darkness and Piercing The Dark.