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    The Name Quest: Explore the Names of God to Grow in Faith and Get to Know Him Better

    By John Avery

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    An insightful journey through all the biblical names of God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. Beginning in Babel and ending with a burning Babylon, "The Name Quest" explains the significance that the different names for God have for an everyday relationship with God and for spiritual growth. The names of God are like a rainbow--each name expresses part of the spectrum of the character and attributes of God. Along the way, the author tenderly answers tough questions: Which of the Hebrew names of God is His personal name--Yahweh or Jehovah? What does it mean to pray in Jesus’ name? How can we relate to the Holy God and the Judge? Why is a God of love called the “Jealous God”? What does it mean to call Jesus the Messiah? "The Name Quest" mentions all the names of God in the Bible while explaining their significance in ordinary language. The author weaves together fifteen years of Bible study research with plentiful illustrations and humorous anecdotes. These include lessons learned as a pastor on a Caribbean island. A visit to a Welsh hill farm introduces a chapter about the Good Shepherd. The story of a Hungarian political prisoner illustrates the meaning of Immanuel (or is it Emmanuel?) A rescue from the slopes of an active volcano helps explain salvation and the meaning of Jesus’ Hebrew name Yeshua. Even the clever advertisement on a packet of potato chips offers a lesson about how to grow in faith in God. Unlike chasing rainbows, the spiritual journey has an end. "The Name Quest" is a road map for every Christian’s spiritual journey and it points to the destination--being formed into the image of Jesus Christ.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMorgan James Faith
    Release dateAug 1, 2014
    ISBN9781630471606
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    The Name Quest: Explore the Names of God to Grow in Faith and Get to Know Him Better
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    John Avery

    John is a trained teacher with over thirty years' experience as a Bible teaching pastor, small group leader, and missionary. He has lived in England, Israel, Africa, and the Caribbean, ministering with Youth With A Mission (YWAM), international student ministry, and local churches. He and his wife, Janet, now make their home in Oregon. John likes to hike, snowshoe, and cross-country ski. John writes short, thought-provoking Bible devotionals at www.BibleMaturity.com many of which are being compiled in book form. He maintains a comprehensive resource for all the names of God at www.NamesForGod.net.

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    • 5/5
      A lot of times when people read scripture, myself included, they find it hard to relate to what things meant back when the monikers were assigned to God..to me this book helps to bring those names and messages home that were written and make them easier to apply to common day.I will be keeping this book for a very long time and adding it to my shelf and recommending it to others in my church as it is a highly pleasurable read and one that I am sure I will be picking up again from time to time just to reacquaint myself a little more.
    • 5/5
      If you are interested in furthering your knowledge of the many powerful names of God this book is an excellent choice. I haven't yet finished this book, but the only reason is because it is so chock full of different names and information that can be quite useful.
    • 5/5
      Excellent book! Have been a Christian a long time and have still learned a lot about the names of God from this book. Would recommend it to any Christian.
    • 5/5
      This book is well put together and it is very insightful. I will be honest it only took me 24 hrs to read it (not that its a small book). Just that i enjoyed reading it. It kinda reminded me of chicken soup (but for followers of the lord). This is also a pretty good book to have on hand in bible study type groups. And I also think this book would be really neat if it came in some what of a pocket edition. I myself will be keeping this book for a very long time (maybe highlighting some of the things in it and keeping it to refer back to). One last thing. This book is far from boring its rather interesting and it well put
    • 4/5
      While Shakespeare tells us that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, I doubt people would plant it in their gardens if it was called Blight Delight or Aphid Haven. So names do matter when we understand their meaning. Problems can arise and benefits are lost when names and their meanings are disjointed. In western culture our names are, for the most part, completely lost to their meanings. How different it is for the Nigerian man I met who told me his name and I asked him what it meant and he said, "Joy returns home." Can you imagine the impact on a child when every time their parents call them they hear that they are their joy! I think it is part of the reason why pet names, nicknames and sweet lover names are so common and important to us. Deep inside we know that names do matter.However, we may not have made this same association with God. We may not even be aware that He has many names. Understanding these names can give us powerful insights into who He really is. We move beyond our preconceived ideas from the term "God" which isn't a name at all, but an impersonal job description. Impersonal job titles evoke prejudiced perspectives. (If in doubt stop a moment and ponder what comes to mind when you think "janitor".) I think this explains the trend of upgrading job titles for lowly jobs. This is a scholarly book, well researched sprinkled throughout with modern parables and Biblical passages to illustrate its points. It brought deeper understanding of the many names of God and how they help us understand (as much as we are able) this Being who is beyond our understanding yet who desires to be known. I realize how much it has changed my thinking when I wanted to end that last sentence with "the God Who wants to be Known". From a change in perspective can come a change in relationship. It would be an excellent guide for a small study group or a topical Bible study and may also help a believer connect with and worship the great Creator Who inspires Awe, Who is Mighty and Able, Who loves us and saves us, Who .......
    • 4/5
      This review is in answer to John Avery’s request for reviews on LinkedIn. He graciously sent me a free paperback copy of his book to facilitate its review. Thank you John.My first impression as I flipped through the book, was the amazing amount of research that went into it! He’s given each researched tidbit or quote of information a number, which leads to the back of the book where the footnotes take up an entire section to themselves. In addition, he’s put together a handy index at the back so that if you want to check out the meaning of one of God’s names without reading the whole book again, you can simply go to that name’s page(s).I was impressed with how John wove the names of God into a running narrative that flowed smoothly from name to name or from example to example. Examples ranged from experiences on the hiking trails to experiences of the men and women mentioned in the pages of Scripture.One bit of information/observation mentioned early on in the book about who Melchizedek worshipped is later very clearly contradicted when discussing another name of God later in the book. This may simply have been a missed comparison in the research archives because the remainder of the book sticks with the second iteration of who we know Melchizedek to be honouring when he met Abram.John does an amazing job of displaying the commonality behind many terms before they were applied to God, and the drastically changed understandings that developed after their application to God. This lends a more human view to the people, places and situations found in Scripture as they learned of God and grew in their faith-walk with Him.If I had anything of major note to say against the book, it has nothing to do with the content. The layout of the book made it hard to read at times. The use of sidebars to encapsulate lists of names of God beside their expounding paragraphs worked in most instances throughout the book, but every now and then, the strict adherence to where these sidebars were placed left some paragraphs appearing unfinished until I realized their final sentences trailed between two sidebars. Frequently, paragraph sentences were allowed to have just two or three words trail onto the next page or stay behind on the previous page, a situation known as orphaning. While this did allow for the paragraph to otherwise remain intact, it would have been perfectly ok to either break up the paragraph or simply move the one or two lines left on the previous page over to the next page to avoid orphans. However, in light of the overall content of the book and how well it was written, such formatting issues are largely trivial.This book gets a solid 4 out of 5 stars! I highly recommend it and it would make a great companion to my new book, “A Year in Prayer With Jesus” as you learn about 365 names, titles and attributes of God in the first point, “Hallowed by Thy Name”.Well done John! This book was a pleasure to read!
    • 4/5
      Explore the names of God to Grow in Faith and Get to Know Him BetterThis book is not a mere list of names and information about them that is dry, merely facts, or boring. Instead it is organized by character trait for each chapter and it is interesting.Mr. Avery made this book interesting by seamlessly weaving personal (and sometimes humorous) story tidbits in between the scriptures, quotes, names, biblical background and etymological knowledge included. He also has a knack of gleaning moral life lessons about God from ordinary and extraordinary modern American life events.I found the information to be very thorough when unpacking each particular quality of God’s character. Everything was thoroughly footnoted as well, with well over 1300 footnotes included.At the end of chapter one the author mentions, “experiential knowledge” seemingly implying that is what is coming next in the book. I suppose it depends on what your definition is of “experiential”, but to me it is not something that can be guaranteed since we cannot make God show up or perform at our will. I did, however, find myself very much thinking about God as I read this book. And God does value that!As a book reviewer I found it daunting to treat this book as a read-straight-through book, especially considering its length (379 pages). Instead I recommend to any readers that you treat this book more like a restaurant menu and pick and choose as needed based on whatever you need God to be for you or whatever you are curious about. Find whatever that is in the table of contents or the convenient index in the back.One thing I would have liked to seen expanded upon was the treatment of the names of the Holy Spirit. Even though they were included and talked about and even though the number of names used exclusively to apply to Him compared to the total number of names or titles of God in the Bible is much smaller, considering the importance of the Holy Spirit in our lives and His co-equality in the trinity, I think there should have been more there.Overall I enjoyed the book and thought it was thorough, well-written and interesting. I think it could help you get to know God better, too, depending on how you treat it. (Read it as I recommended and intentionally think about God while doing so expecting Him to show up.) Recommended to any Christian wanting to get to know God better through His names. To purchase your own copy of this book go here:The Name Quest: Explore the Names of God to Grow in Faith and Get to Know Him Better (Morgan James Faith)Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from the author himself. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commision’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”