The Return

Review: The Real God: How He Longs for You to See Him Chip Ingram Baker Books 2016 Ingram says up front that his desire for those that read this book is “to engage the reader in a lifelong pursuit of knowing, seeing, and experiencing the Real God.” (15)   The Real God?   He means the one found in Scripture who has not been conformed to my ideas or desires.   So, is saying that I might have some distorted idea of God?   The nerve!   Yeah, that’s where I started with this book.   Doesn’t give an author much room to work.   I put the book down, went on vacation, and then came back to it, more just to get it off my to-do list than anything else.    Not only did I discover that I needed a vacation, but that over time I had acquired a distorted view of the God of the Bible.   Time for some adjustment, and this book provided the means for that adjustment.   Ingram uses an older book by Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy, ...

Review: Praying the Attributes of God: A daily guide to Experiencing His Greatness Ann Spangler Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2013 Devotions can be difficult to review because their worth is discovered over a more extended period of time.   This one is no exception.   The author has assembled 17 weeks of study, each week looking at one of the attributes.   Sounds familiar?   Some of the chapter titles look like this:   God Cares about You, God is not Moody, God Always Knows What to Do….   It isn’t the list you may have worked from before with all those “omni” words, at least not initially.   That is one of the things that makes this particular devotional different from some others I have seen, and for that I am glad.   Much less daunting. Spangler has organized each week’s focus into a series of five elements: background information, Bible study, devotions, Bible promises, and prayer (xv).   Each week begins with a key pas...