The poetic message of Isaiah is one of victory, hope, comfort, and restoration of all things. Explore the vision of a man who saw the glory of God and spoke with burning lips, for true prophetic ministry flows from this vision until it grows into a burden.
For one singular purpose, Jesus of Nazareth came into this world: to destroy the work of darkness and reconcile God's children of creation to Himself. The bloody cross was the crucible through which this glorious reunion was consecrated, and the crucible through which Christ has called us into the divine family. Through the cross we share His blood and through Christ's blood we share the DNA of heaven. But we must walk the walk. This audiobook is a call to the one road of true discipleship - the road walked by the first disciples and the early church.
The modern apologetics classic that started it all is now completely revised and updated - because the truth of the Bible doesn't change, but its critics do. With the original Evidence That Demands a Verdict, best-selling author Josh McDowell gave Christian audiences the answers they needed to defend their faith against the harshest critics and skeptics. Now, with his son Sean McDowell, Josh McDowell has updated and expanded this classic resource for a new generation. This is a book that invites listeners to bring their doubts.
Bring your Bible and sit down to explore; get to know what God is really like!
The way we think of God will impact our experience and our ability to live a fulfilling Christian life. The way a teacher thinks and teaches about God can be either helpful or very destructive to those he or she teaches.
Pastor and teacher S.J. Hill is deeply conscious of this critical topic and has spent years studying it and writing about it. He believes that understanding our loving, rejoicing, creating, and relating God is critical to our spiritual lives and our witness. Using scripture, history, and his own experience, he lays out a view of a God who loves and nurtures. This is not a God who is weak and wishy-washy, but rather a God whose love and grace lead us and empower us to live holier lives.
Imagine what could happen in our churches if we gave witness to a God such as this!
Amazing and liberating secrets revealed!
A book to go back to over and over again. This book can be transformational in your view of and relationship with God. A "must have."
Intending to be set alongside the (sometimes stuffy) academic side of spirituality, this book works well to awaken the raw longings of the heart for the One who made us.
I really found this book very enlightening regarding God's nature and His love for mankind.
In, "What's God Really Like", S.J. Hill has taken the well worth time to explore and expound on the goodness and greatness of God. Many times we don't see past our own lives and surroundings. As the Psalmist David said, "Come, magnify the Lord with me, let us exalt His name together." While listening to this audiobook I joined in with the author in exalting the Lord and my own religious ideas as well as my reluctant acceptance of God's goodness were countered with a continuous wave like exaltation of God, His love, His goodness namely what God is really like.
Lesser joys, lesser pleasures in the form of many of the sins we and others choose or struggle with were explained in a way that I never heard expounded like S.J. Hill has put forth in this book. The answer isn't gritting our teeth to obtain a holiness that is anemic in its understanding but to see that God invites us into true joy, true pleasure and a fulfillment in Him that we were designed for which eclipses all of our lesser lovers or besetting sins. God truly is great and when we find our full satisfaction in Him then that is when we encounter true holiness.
God is beautiful and to see Him as such will soften the hardness of heart and religious mind. It will empower us to embrace Him and not let go, actually to enter His embrace and not leave it for something lesser.
I highly recommend this audiobook and to listen to it multiple times as a refreshing and renewing of the mind.
I loved how this book focused on delightful aspects of who God is that are often overlooked by "serious theological tomes", if you know the kind I mean. I was often brought to a place of worship and wonder as I listened to it. I also LOVED that this book made enjoying God the point, because it IS the point.
I will confess that the chapter of this book that attempted to look at certain things in the OT through different eyes didn't sit great with me. That doesn't mean I'm right, of course, I just don't see things the same way so it's hard for me to unreservedly recommend this book.
Everything else about this was great, though, and it didn't negate what was awesome about the book. Truly.