God Is: A Devotional Guide to the Attributes of God
Overview
God has revealed many things about himself in his Word. But God’s manifold attributes shine most clearly in his Son, Jesus Christ, who came to reveal his Father. Through Christ’s saving work on the cross, we are able to know and worship God rightly.
This book aims to help us study and understand the attributes of God so that we delight in and love him with all our heart, soul, strength, and mind. Each chapter explains one attribute, shows how it is most clearly manifested in Christ, and provides practical application for the Christian life.
Key Features
- Presents an accessible devotional with important theology
- Simple organization makes for easy learning about God's attributes
- Functions as a practical means to learn about who God is
Contents
- God Is Triune
- God Is Simple
- God Is Spirit
- God Is Infinite
- God Is Eternal
- God Is Unchangeable
- God Is Independent
- God Is Omnipresent
- God Is Omniscient
- God Is Omnipotent
- God Is Yahweh
- God Is Blessed
- God Is Glorious
- God Is Majestic
- God Is Sovereign
- God Is Love
- God Is Good
- God Is Patient
- God Is Merciful
- God Is Wise
- God Is Holy
- God Is Faithful
- God Is Gracious
- God Is Just
- God Is Angry
- God Is Anthropomorphic
Top Highlights
“God so desires that we delight in him that he sent his Son into the world to be like us in every way yet without sin.” (Page 12)
“Infinity means that there is no limit to God’s perfections.” (Page 43)
“God is fully actualized potentiality. In other words, he cannot ‘become’ anything; he always has and always will be what he alone is: a fully actualized being who needs nothing and possesses everything.” (Page 45)
“Christ had access to this type of knowledge because of God’s omniscience. He could have depended on his own divine resources, so to speak, but his humiliation in the incarnation necessitated a willingness to completely and constantly depend on the Father to teach him all that he needed to know. Very often, the Father’s teaching enabled Christ to supernaturally know things that proved his messianic identity.” (Pages 82–83)
“God created us not because he needed us but because he loved us. He loved simply because he chose to do so. He loves us so fully that his desire for us is not so much that we live the ‘purpose-driven life’ but that we live a wholly dependent life.” (Page 69)
Praise for the Print Edition
In twenty-seven concise chapters, God Is invites, equips, edifies, comforts, and challenges God’s people to know God better and love him more. This is Mark Jones at his best, combining his theological breadth and depth with his pastor’s heart.
—Rosaria Butterfield, Former Professor of English, Syracuse University
Most treatments of God’s attributes are like vast mining operations that use massive theological machinery to plumb the depths of divine revelation. Mark Jones hands us the diamonds of God’s perfections, already mined, cut, and polished, to enrich our souls immeasurably. Study this book, read it with your family, discuss it with your small group, teach it to your church class, and give it to your neighbor. This is a gem indeed!
—Joel R. Beeke, President and Professor of Systematic Theology and Homiletics, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary; Pastor, Heritage Reformed Congregation, Grand Rapids, Michigan; author, Reformed Preaching
Written in the tradition of J. I. Packer's Knowing God, Jones's work is an extremely helpful and needful primer on our great God and his all-beautiful character. Highly recommended as a tool for personal devotion or group study.
—Michael A. G. Haykin, professor of church history and Biblical spirituality at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Product Details
- Title: God Is: A Devotional Guide to the Attributes of God
- Author: Mark Jones
- Publisher: Crossway
- Publication Date: 2017
- Pages: 240
- Christian Group: Evangelicals
- Resource Type: Devotional
- Topic: Theology
