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Good and Beautiful God

Good and Beautiful God

Apr 2025 - May 2025

James Bryan Smith
John Murray Press, 16 Feb 2012 - Religion - 240 pages
THE GOOD AND BEAUTIFUL GOD is the first book in the Apprentice Series, which along with three other titles forms 'a curriculum for Christlikeness'. THE GOOD AND BEAUTIFUL GOD focuses on the character of God and how we can move into a life of intimacy with him. What we believe about God is of huge importance to our lives: the path to spiritual transformation begins here. Each chapter uncovers the narratives by which Jesus lived, and includes a 'soul-training' exercise to help embed this narrative into our minds, bodies and souls. Each chapter also includes questions that can be used for individual reflection or group discussion.

Sermons in this Series
Good Beautiful God: Study 4, God is Generous
18-05-2025
Duration: 25:34

God is Generous: Study 4 in the series Good Beautiful God

The primary focus of this chapter is that we do not earn God’s love, favour, forgiveness or acceptance. God is generous and gives them to us freely.

The false narrative explored in this chapter is, “Love and forgiveness are commodities that are exchanged for performance. God’s love, acceptance and forgiveness must be earned by right living.

Good Beautiful God: Study 3, God is Trustworthy
11-05-2025

God is Trustworthy: Study 3 in the series Good Beautiful God

Not everyone believes that God is trustworthy.
Do you doubt that God is trustworthy?

What has caused you to think this way?
Have there been events in your life that seem to contradict this belief?
Do you doubt God when the Bible says He loves you?

Listen carefully to this powerful message. It may be just what you need to hear.

Good Beautiful God: Study 2, God is Good
04-05-2025
Duration: 35:59

God is Good: Study 2 in the series Good Beautiful God

It's so easy to believe and say "God is Good" when all is well with you and your circumstances. But what might you be tempted to think if that were not the case?

Bad health, troubling thoughts, low bank balance, no employment, no permanent dwelling, feeling alone and unwanted?

What would you think about God in those circumstances? Is God still good?

The primary focus of this chapter is wrestling with the commonly held narrative that God is an angry God, who punishes us for our sins. But the God Jesus knows and reveals is good — meaning there is nothing bad about God.

Perhaps this message is just for you!

Good Beautiful God: Study 1, What are you Seeking
27-04-2025
Duration: 39:14

What are you Seeking: Study 1 in the series Good Beautiful God

What Are You Seeking?

Would you like to have abiding peace? Would you like to have a heart that is filled with love? Would you like to have the kind of faith that sees everything - even your failures and losses in light of God's governance for good? Would you like to have the kind of hope that endures even in discouraging circumstances?

If this is the life you most deeply desire, then this study is meant for you! (Adapted from the book "Good and Beautiful God", by James Bryan Smith.)