5 April 2019

I am reading an interesting book.  Last year while I was in Sand Point, DeLoa came to visit and she had this book with her.  I put it on my Kindle but only recently started reading it. 

God Has A Name by John Mark Comer.  I love his writing style!   The book takes Exodus 34:4-7 line by line and I am learning so much.  Here is a excerpt from the introduction:  Last week, an atheist came up to me and asked how I could believe in a God who made parents eat their children. Naturally, I was a little confused. A lot of people have odd ideas about God, but cannibalism? That was new. I was speaking at an event, and the theme that weekend was the Bible—in all its weirdness and mystery and drama and truth and lies and violence and nonviolence and sarcastic donkeys and dying Messiahs and what-in-the-world-is-up-with-this story-ness. The event was supposed to be for pastors and church leader types, but a number of atheists crashed the party. It turns out a lot of people have issues with the Bible. Even more of us have issues with God. So, this guy, Micah, comes up to me with a quote from Leviticus. (Why is it always Leviticus?) He had accidentally torn a line out of context and misread it. It happens. We had a nice chat about how God isn’t actually a cannibal, and then I had to go up on stage and teach. But it struck me later that Micah the atheist and myself the pastor were both talking about God, but the two of us had radically different ideas about who God is.  Comer, John Mark. God Has a Name (pp. 19-20). Zondervan. Kindle Edition.