{"id":12586,"date":"2019-12-23T09:39:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T14:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=12586"},"modified":"2019-12-23T09:39:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T14:39:27","slug":"book-review-god-has-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=12586","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: God has a Name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.test\/content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/41EXSX8fkDL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/41EXSX8fkDL.jpg 375w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/41EXSX8fkDL-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After reading <em>The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry<\/em> by <a href=\"https:\/\/johnmarkcomer.com\/\">John Mark Comer<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=12510\">reviewed here<\/a>), Amazon told me that I might be interested in another one of his books called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/God-Name-John-Mark-Comer-ebook\/dp\/B01HAKH20S\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=God+has+a+name&amp;qid=1577111596&amp;sr=8-1\"><em>God has a Name<\/em><\/a>.  I&#8217;ll agree with Amazon.  It was a good read!  There are some things that Comer and I are in different places on, but in general, this book was so helpful in giving perspective on the character of God and what that means for those of us who find our identity in Christ.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I highlighted several things while reading and pasted those notes below&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>When God describes himself, he starts with his name. Then he talks about what we call character. He\u2019s compassionate and gracious; he\u2019s slow to anger; he\u2019s abounding in love and faithfulness, and on down the list.<\/li><li>To pray in Jesus\u2019 name means two things.<br>1. It means to pray in line with his character, to pray for the kind of stuff he wants to see happen in the world. <br>2. \u00a0To pray in Jesus\u2019 name means that whenever we pray, we have the same access to God that Jesus does.\u00a0Location: 993<\/li><li>It\u2019s not so much that \u201cJesus is the only way to God.\u201d I mean, he is, but a better way to say it is: Jesus is God come to us.\u00a0Location: 1,455<\/li><li>To the Scripture writers, hope is the absolute expectation of coming good based on the character of God.\u00a0Location: 2,691<\/li><li>&#8220;Faithfulness is long obedience in the same direction in an age of instant gratification&#8221;.-Eugene Peterson\u00a0Location: 2,791<\/li><li>You can\u2019t microwave character. It\u2019s more like a tree that you grow slowly, one season after another. There are summer-like seasons were you can pluck joy off the limbs, where your life is dripping with growth and abundance. And there are winter-like seasons, where life feels slow and empty. The best trees are the ones that stay rooted and just keep at it.\u00a0Location: 2,794<\/li><li>you\u2019re carrying the name. Everywhere you go .\u00a0.\u00a0. In all that you do .\u00a0.\u00a0. You are called by the name of Yahweh. And it\u2019s a really good name.\u00a0Location: 3,392<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer (reviewed here), Amazon told me that I might be interested in another one of his books called God has a Name. I&#8217;ll agree with Amazon. It was a good read! There are some things that Comer and I are in different places on, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14,16,23,28,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-study","category-book-review","category-family","category-generosity","category-integrity","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}