- 288 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
What you believe about God sets the foundation of the person you will become.
In God Has a Name, pastor and New York Times bestselling author John Mark Comer invites you to rethink many of the prevalent myths and misconceptions about God and weigh them against what God actually tells us about himself. After all, what you believe about God will ultimately shape the type of person you become.
We all live at the mercy of our ideas, and nowhere is this more true than our ideas about God. The problem is many of our ideas about God are wrong. Not all wrong, but wrong enough to form our souls in detrimental and disheartening ways.
God Has a Name is a simple yet profound guide to understanding God in a new light--focusing on what God says about himself in the Bible. This one shift has the potential to radically alter how you relate to God, not as a doctrine, but as a relational being who responds to you in an elastic, back-and-forth way.
John Mark Comer takes you line by line through Exodus 34:6-8--Yahweh's self-revelation on Mount Sinai, one of the most quoted passages in the Bible. Along the way, Comer addresses some of the most profound questions he came across as he studied these noted lines in Exodus, including:
- Why do we feel this gap between us and God?
- Could it be that a lot of what we think about God is wrong? Not all wrong, but wrong enough to mess up how we relate to him?
- What if our "God" is really a projection of our own identity, ideas, and desires?
- What if the real God is different, but far better than we could ever imagine?
No matter where you are in your spiritual journey, God Has a Name invites you to step into a fresh and biblically rooted vision of who God is that has the potential to alter your life with God and shape who you become.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- The path
- Exodus 34v4–7
- Prologue: The God on top of the mountain
- 1. Yahweh One simple idea that could radically alter how you relate to God: a name
- 2. Yahweh Why does God need a name in the first place? God and the “gods”
- 3. Compassionate and gracious God as Father and Mother, and his baseline emotion toward you: mercy
- 4. Slow to anger Why we actually crave the wrath of God
- 5. Abounding in love and faithfulness Long obedience in the same direction in an age of instant gratification
- 6. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished The God who just won’t stop until you’re completely free
- Epilogue: Jealous
- A practice: Contemplation
- Thanks
- Notes
- About the author