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Behold Your God Student Workbo
Behold Your God is a 12-week study for churches, small groups, families or individuals containing 12 sessions that are reinforced by a 12-week daily workbook. Each week's lesson is preceded by a brief historical profile of a notable man or woman of God such as George Muller, A. W. Tozer, Samuel Rutherford, Charles Spurgeon, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Amy Carmichael, Robert Murray M'Cheyne, George Whitefield, Daniel Rowland and Jonathan Edwards. The heart of each DVD is a 30-minute lesson on one aspect of the Christian life and how it is affected by a biblical rethinking of God's character. The teaching sessions are led by Dr. John Snyder, pastor of Christ Church in New Albany, Mississippi.
281 pages, Paperback
Published April 9, 2013
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About the author
John Snyder
93 books29 followersJohn Snyder is the author of the bestseller The Golden Ring - A Christmas Story and a new Christmas Book, Jacob's Bell, due to be released by FaithWords/Hachette Book Group on October 2, 2018.
He is a member of the Authors Guild. Before retiring, he owned and operated an award-winning public relations/advertising/sports marketing firm in the Baltimore, MD/Washington, DC area for nearly twenty-five years. His firm worked with and represented some of the world’s top professional athletes, sports franchises (including the Washington Capitals of the NHL, the Washington Bullets of the NBA, and top INDYCAR teams, NASCAR teams, and teams in other prominent racing series), as well as
nationally televised sporting events.
When not writing, John enjoys spending time with family and friends, camping, hiking, golfing, motorsports (he has raced karts—capable of speeds in excess of 100 mph, pit crewed in the Indianapolis 500, and operated the driver communications board from the wall at the edges of speedways across the United
States for his former client, two-time Indy 500 winner and national auto racing champion Al Unser, Jr.). John lives in Mocksville, North Carolina, with his wife, Ruth Ellen. Contact him at johnsnyder@johnsnyder.net and find out more at www.johnsnyder.net.
He is a member of the Authors Guild. Before retiring, he owned and operated an award-winning public relations/advertising/sports marketing firm in the Baltimore, MD/Washington, DC area for nearly twenty-five years. His firm worked with and represented some of the world’s top professional athletes, sports franchises (including the Washington Capitals of the NHL, the Washington Bullets of the NBA, and top INDYCAR teams, NASCAR teams, and teams in other prominent racing series), as well as
nationally televised sporting events.
When not writing, John enjoys spending time with family and friends, camping, hiking, golfing, motorsports (he has raced karts—capable of speeds in excess of 100 mph, pit crewed in the Indianapolis 500, and operated the driver communications board from the wall at the edges of speedways across the United
States for his former client, two-time Indy 500 winner and national auto racing champion Al Unser, Jr.). John lives in Mocksville, North Carolina, with his wife, Ruth Ellen. Contact him at johnsnyder@johnsnyder.net and find out more at www.johnsnyder.net.
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April 27, 2021
Snyder has good intentions in wanting to help readers increase their sense of understanding God and grow in biblical thinking. I have no quarrel with his motives.
I found this book to have good points sprinkled throughout and yet over all, much of it seemed to me like a beatdown for the reader. Often the statements and questions for application were so weak:
p. 17 "All elements - the right living, built upon right doctrine, planted deeply in your heart by God - are inseparable. They cannot exit in isolation from one another. If your life lacks one or another, in truth it does not have any of the three."
.... really? ...who says? Can't a new believer be growing in one or the other and be struggling with one or all three? Apparently for Snyder, his answer is "no, you have to all three elements" to some determined degree that he thinks is correct.
This "all or nothing" approach riddles the whole book and diminishes the Gospel. Some grace is referred to in the book yet what sounds like legalism "you have to do or think such and such" permeates his book. Call me super-sensitive but I found it distasteful.
p.258 After a section about "Passages That Guide Us Back To God" and referencing Revelation 3:20, Snyder's question is "Are you willing to unbolt all doors, to give Christ perfect freedom to enter and rearrange your life, in order to have fellowship with Him restored?" The presumably preferred answer by the author is of course 'YES!!!', yet I am and not drawn to this "want-to", by his writing and referencing this passage. He development of his ideas are often weak and more often his transitions to application is more "you should...". Snyder is over his head in trying to write this book. His intentions may be fine, his delivery is unappealing.
There are so many better Christian books that explain the beauty and majesty of God that draw the reader into a deeper desire toward Christlikeness, to draw the reader into a deeper desire to embrace Jesus, the Way, the Truth and the Life. I wouldn't recommend this book. It's too confusing. If Snyder's attempt is to increase an understand that our heart motivation to love and obey the Lord that comes from a heart saturated by His love for us and what HE has done for us, Snyder falls short.
I know others have really liked and joyfully embraced the author's content and approach to the subject and as a result, loved and rejoiced in God over it.
I found this book to have good points sprinkled throughout and yet over all, much of it seemed to me like a beatdown for the reader. Often the statements and questions for application were so weak:
p. 17 "All elements - the right living, built upon right doctrine, planted deeply in your heart by God - are inseparable. They cannot exit in isolation from one another. If your life lacks one or another, in truth it does not have any of the three."
.... really? ...who says? Can't a new believer be growing in one or the other and be struggling with one or all three? Apparently for Snyder, his answer is "no, you have to all three elements" to some determined degree that he thinks is correct.
This "all or nothing" approach riddles the whole book and diminishes the Gospel. Some grace is referred to in the book yet what sounds like legalism "you have to do or think such and such" permeates his book. Call me super-sensitive but I found it distasteful.
p.258 After a section about "Passages That Guide Us Back To God" and referencing Revelation 3:20, Snyder's question is "Are you willing to unbolt all doors, to give Christ perfect freedom to enter and rearrange your life, in order to have fellowship with Him restored?" The presumably preferred answer by the author is of course 'YES!!!', yet I am and not drawn to this "want-to", by his writing and referencing this passage. He development of his ideas are often weak and more often his transitions to application is more "you should...". Snyder is over his head in trying to write this book. His intentions may be fine, his delivery is unappealing.
There are so many better Christian books that explain the beauty and majesty of God that draw the reader into a deeper desire toward Christlikeness, to draw the reader into a deeper desire to embrace Jesus, the Way, the Truth and the Life. I wouldn't recommend this book. It's too confusing. If Snyder's attempt is to increase an understand that our heart motivation to love and obey the Lord that comes from a heart saturated by His love for us and what HE has done for us, Snyder falls short.
I know others have really liked and joyfully embraced the author's content and approach to the subject and as a result, loved and rejoiced in God over it.
February 22, 2023
Great resource! Everyone should do it once.
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