Discovering God in the Stories from the Bible (Ryken)

To truly love someone, you have to know him. And to truly love God, we must know him too. Not just know that he exists, but know who he is and what he is like.

This exploration of God's unchanging character, as revealed in thirteen stories from the Bible, offers you this opportunity—to get to know him better and love him more. Each chapter focuses on a different attribute of God, how it influences your understanding of him, and how you can apply it to your daily life.

This new edition includes a study guide, which helps you apply the text by providing along with each chapter:

• Study questions
• Background and contextual information
• Additional passages for further study

This fresh look at his character will help you discover, or rediscover, the God who is infinite and holy, all-knowing and all-powerful—the God who is truth and love. And as you draw nearer to him, you’ll find that there is no endeavor more rewarding than this one. 

Table of Contents:

1. To God Be the Glory: The Story of Moses on God’s Mountain
2.  God Is Spirit: The Story of the Messiah at the Wall
3. God Is Everywhere: The Story of Jonah and the Great Escape
4. Now to the King Eternal: The Story of the Beautiful King of Babylon
5. God Does Not Change: The Story of Saul’s Rejection as King
6. The Great I am: The Story of Moses and the Burning Bush
7. God Has All the Answers: The Story of Job and the Tempest
8. The Lord God Omnipotent Reigns: The Story of the Empty Tomb
9. Holy, Holy, Holy: The Story of Isaiah at God’s Heavenly Throne
10. The Justice of it all: The Story of the First Crime and Its Punishment
11. God is Good…All The Time: The Story of the Good Shephard
12. Nothing But the Truth: The Story of Jesus Before Pilate
13. The Greatest Love Story Ever Told: The Whole Story of Salvation 

Author 

Philip Graham Ryken is Senior Minister of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, where he has preached since 1995. He is Bible Teacher for the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, speaking nationally on the radio program Every Last Word. Dr. Ryken was educated at Wheaton College (IL), Westminster Theological Seminary (PA) and the University of Oxford (UK), from which he received his doctorate in historical theology. He lives with his wife (Lisa) and children in Center City, Philadelphia.

Endorsements  

"It takes peculiar skill to provide an explanation of God’s attributes that both feeds the mind and stirs the heart. Phil Ryken achieves this and more in this most helpful book." — Alistair Begg

"People in our day, even in the church, know very little about God and therefore do not know themselves well either. . . . But these thirteen bright chapters will get you started. And they will encourage you too." — James Montgomery Boice