Dropping Your Assumptions and Discovering God for Yourself

Check out our newest podcast episode where we talk with our editor in chief Russ Ewell about the release of our new book on April 24! He’s Not Who You Think He Is: Dropping Your Assumptions and Discovering God for Yourself is a guide to seeing God in a healthy way, softening our hearts to be close to him, and inspiring the world around us to discover him too.

In this episode we also talk about some of the new features of the book, like interactive notes, QR codes, and playlists to immerse you in the experience even further. Stay tuned for more updates!

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He’s Not Who You Think He Is: Dropping Your Assumptions and Discovering God for Yourself

For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. [13] Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

Hebrews 4:12-13 NIV

Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

Psalm 90:14 NIV

You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you: [8] “‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. [9] They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’”

Matthew 15:7-9 NIV

Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

1 Peter 5:7 NIV

“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. [25] The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. [26] But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. [27] The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”

Matthew 7:24-27 NIV

Then some Pharisees and teachers of the law came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked, [2] “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don’t wash their hands before they eat!” [3] Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?

Matthew 15:1-3 NIV

Book quotes:

“God cares for us. He doesn’t seek to hurt us. But at the same time he does not exempt us from Satan’s attacks or the natural events of life. What he does is help us so that we don’t harden ourselves to the pain. This would turn off our hearts. He helps us feel rather than let us harden. Feeling is essential if we are to experience life at its fullest.”

“There is something deeply disturbing about the discovery that what you were against is what you are becoming. This was my realization in a conversation in which I felt increasing pressure to conform to a set of religious principles more associated with the politics and power-seeking of organized religion than the spirituality and authenticity of biblical Christianity.”