God Has a Name
God Has a Name is a simple yet profound guide to understanding God in a new light--focusing on what God says about himself. 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.
In God Has a Name, 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, the act of learning who God is just might surprise you--and change everything.
Top Highlights
“Mah shemo? is more like, ‘What is the meaning of your name?’ Or, ‘What is the significance of your name?’ Or, ‘What makes you . . . you?’” (source)
“A. W. Tozer made a stunning claim: ‘What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.’” (source)
“incredibly deficient. As my friends would say, ‘It’s weak sauce.’ When we read ‘love,’ most of us think of feelings” (source)
“Here’s a truth that cuts across the whole of the universe: we become like what we worship.” (source)
“Your name was your identity, your destiny, the truth hidden in the marrow of your bones. It was a one-word moniker for the truest thing about you—your inner essence. Your inner Tom-ness or Ruth-ness.” (source)
Product Details
- Title : God Has a Name
- Author: Comer, John Mark
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publication Date: 2017
- ISBN: 9780310344247
John Mark Comer is the founding pastor at Bridgetown Church, director and teacher of Practicing the Way, and the New York Times bestselling author of Live No Lies and other books. His passion is the intersection of spiritual formation and post-Christian culture, and to that end, he is regularly found reading the desert fathers and mothers, ancient saints and obscure contemplatives, modern psychologists and social scientists, and op-eds from the New York Times. Most importantly, he is husband to T and father to Jude, Moses, and Sunday.
