God Has a Name

What You Believe About God Will Shape Who You Become

By: John Mark Comer

Narrated by: John Mark Comer

Read by the author.

What you believe about God sets the foundation of the person you will become.

In God Has a Name, pastor and New York Times bestselling author John Mark Comer invites you to rethink many of the prevalent myths and misconceptions about God and weigh them against what God actually tells us about himself. After all, what you believe about God will ultimately shape the type of person you become.

We all live at the mercy of our ideas, and nowhere is this more true than our ideas about God. The problem is many of our ideas about God are wrong. Not all wrong, but wrong enough to form our souls in detrimental and disheartening ways.

God Has a Name is a simple yet profound guide to understanding God in a new light—focusing on what God says about himself in the Bible. 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.

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, God Has a Name invites you to step into a fresh and biblically rooted vision of who God is that has the potential to alter your life with God and shape who you become.

©2023 John Mark Comer (P)2024 Thomas Nelson

Captivating and well thought out

Kept me engaged the entire time. Was hard to step away from it, just wanted to keep listening. Great narrating voice. Ideas flowed and organized. Wonderful how he uses scripture to reveal God's nature and makes it relevant to our lives now. So thankful this was recommended by our church. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!

Great guide to the One True God

Comer has a way of stating the truth that does not shy away from the deep mysteries of Scripture and simultaneously does not oversimplify the Living God.

This book is well worth your time.

We become what we behold

I just loved how we approached some of God’s attributes. Yahweh the only God whose name is above everything and everyone. I also liked the reality check on spiritual beings around us. We often ignore that there’s a spiritual warfare happening as in this moment. God already won but this world is wicked to the core and in the meantime we’re living here with all its perks. The more we focus on our creator the more we can become what we were made for.

Insightful yet entertaining

JMC’s speaking style is very academic but approachable; he does well to point to how God/Jesus is portrayed in the Bible and why that tells us who God is

Well thought out book.

Loved his perspective and how he kept going back to the Word and taking it deeper.

insightful and compelling

I love the natural flow of John Mark's reading. I feel like he's having a conversation with me, anticipating my thoughts and questions then answering accordingly. Through this book, I have learned more about who God is and am compelled to have more conversations about His Name and what that means for me as I see myself as a part of His Creation.

Helpful

Thank you this helped me understand God and Christianity as a new Christian it is really great thanks again.

The practices to be more like God towards the end of the book.

A must read for anyone looking for a practical understanding of who God is and how to be transformed into His presence while building a deep relationship with the Yahweh.

What you believe about God shapes who you become

Comer does an amazing job, once again, challenging his readers and listeners to think and feel more rightly about God.
There are a few technical issues with the audiobook, one being that the end of every chapter cuts off at the end of the sentence and remains silent for the last few seconds. There is also a repeated sentence in the epilogue on steps for lectio divina.

Another transformative book!

Thank you for doing an amazing job through the Holy Spirit to impart and encourage our deeper life with Jesus. I will read and contemplate their truth many times as I grow.
Keep writing!