This book is a plea that God himself, as revealed most clearly and fully in Jesus’s death and resurrection, be seen and enjoyed as the final and greatest gift of the gospel.
The gospel of Jesus and his many precious blessings are not ultimately what makes the good news good, but means of seeing and savoring the Savior himself. Forgiveness is good because it opens the way to enjoying God himself. Justification is good because it wins access to the presence and pleasure of God himself. Eternal life is good because it becomes the everlasting enjoyment of Jesus.
All God’s good gifts are loving to the degree that they lead us to God himself. This is the love of God: doing everything necessary, most painfully in the death of his Son, to enthrall us with what is most deeply and durably satisfying—namely, himself.
“The supreme demonstration of God’s love was the sending of his Son to die for our sins and to rise again so that sinners might have the right to approach God and might have the pleasure of his presence forever.”
Trusting God by Jerry Bridges: This book focuses on understanding God's sovereignty, providence, wisdom and love and what it practically looks like to trust God when life is full of trials and suffering. This is a good book for anyone who is going through a period of suffering or anyone who needs to grow in their awe and fear of God. This book contains a study guide at the end of the book to go along with each chapter. This book is easy to read and understandable to all readers.
The Attributes of God by Arthur W Pink: This book has short chapters that are intense and in depth of God's attributes. Pink writes in an academic style that challenges the reader to think deeply and you can't help but be awed by God. The book includes chapters of God's Solitariness, God's Decrees, God's Knowledge, God's Foreknowledge, God's Supremacy, God's Sovereignty, God's Immutability, God's Holiness, God's Power, and many, many more. This book is for someone who is more academic and wants to be challenged. There are no study guide questions available.
For A. W. Tozer, no question is more important than, "What is God like?" The desire to know God consumed his entire life and ministry.
That's why those who read him come to know God more intimately.
Originally preached as sermons at Southside Alliance Church in Chicago, this first volume of The Attributes of God examines ten attributes of God. It also includes a study guide for an in-depth look at each attribute:
Infinite, Immense, Good, Just, Merciful, Gracious, Omnipresent, Immanent, Holy, Perfect
Steeped in Scripture and filled with the Spirit, Tozer preached with striking clarity and power. The sense of his sermons comes through on every page, bringing the Word of God to bear upon you.
"If a sermon can be compared to light, then A.W. Tozer released a laser beam from the pulpit, a beam that penetrated the heart." — Warren Wiersbe
There is also a Volume 2 available
The Stranger of the Road to Emmaus by John Cross: This book is for a new believer or a counselee who may not be saved. This book is an easy to read walk through the bible showing how Christ is the only way to God and salvation. This book shows Adam's and Eve's attempt to cover their sin with appearance of fig leaves, Cain's attempt to reach God on his own ideas, Babel's use of "religion" to try to reach God, and the Israelites attempt to keep the law and obey their way to salvation. Each self remedy is shown to be ineffective and points continually to our need for a Savior. The last portion of the book is how all of scripture was pointing to Jesus and how He is the fulfillment of the law and provides the one true way to God. The book is arranged chronologically through the bible to give an overview of God's purpose and plan. No study guide questions are provided.
Because He Loves Me by Elyse Fitzpatrick: This book focuses on our identity in Christ. This book is for people who struggle to believe God loves them or fail to see how the life, death and resurrection of Christ matters every single day. This book addresses people who exhaust themselves in trying to live a Christian life, without depending humbly on Christ and His power. The question this book asks is, "In your pursuit of godliness, have you left Jesus behind?" This book teaches the counselee to rehearse the gospel daily and to depend on Christ's completed work on the cross for daily transformation. This book has questions at the end of each chapter.
Found in Him by Elyse Fitzpatrick: Found in Him focuses on Jesus' life, death and resurrection as our hope and identity. Elyse Fitzpatrick aims to show you how Jesus' perfect life and human experience made Him the perfect Savior and Lord for us. Where "Because He Loves Me" deals specifically with God's love and care for us, Found In Him is more focused on specific aspects of Jesus' incarnation and how our identity is rooted in God's acceptance of Christ's work. This book is for the counselee who needs to understand their union with Christ and the joy and rest that comes from trusting Him. This book has study questions at the end of each chapter.
None Like Him by Jen Wilken: This is an easy to read attributes of God book. Wilken has chapters on God's infinitude, God's self-existence, God's creativity, God's eternality, God's immutability, God's knowledge, etc. What is unique about this attributes book is that after she explains God's attribute, she then shows how we sinfully desire to have these attributes of God rather than worship and fear Him for who He is. Each chapter is a challenge to rest in God's attribute, to repent of wanting to be god yourself, and worshipping and giving thanks for who God is. Each chapter has questions at the end.