The Excellencies of God: Exploring and Enjoying His Attributes

God's attributes is the most practical of subjects, inspiring and shaping the entire Christian life. Contemplating who God is and what He has promised to do can bring great comfort to the most despairing soul. Moreover, it brings immense delight to all those who recognize their chief end as the glory and enjoyment of God. In The Excellencies of God, Terry L. Johnson explores several aspects of the divine character and shows how they play a crucial role in our Christian experience. May God's mercy and grace, His patience and wisdom, His truth and faithfulness, His spirituality and blessedness prove to be a blessing to all who peruse these pages.

Table of Contents:

Preface

Introduction: The Christian and the Attributes

The Mercy, Grace, and Patience of God

1. The Mercy of God

2. The Grace of God

3. The Patience of God

The Truth and Faithfulness of God

4. The God of Truth

5. Liberating Truth

6. Pursue and Proclaim the Truth

The Blessedness of God

7. The Blessed God

8. Our Blessedness in God

The Fatherhood of God

9. God Our Father

10. Pleasing Our Father

11. Our Father's Children

12. Our Father's Care

The Spirituality of God

13. The God Who Is Spirit

14. Serving an Invisible God

15. Spiritual Mindedness

16. Spiritual Worship

17. True Worship

The Wisdom of God

18. God Only Wise

19. Wisdom and Folly

20. Seeking and Submitting to God's Wisdom

Terry L. Johnson is the senior minister of the Independent Presbyterian Church in Savannah, Georgia. Terry is the author/compiler of the Trinity Psalter and Leading in Worship, and author of The Identity and Attributes of God, The Case for Traditional Protestantism, Reformed Worship, and the trilogy When Grace Comes Home, When Grace Transforms, and When Grace Comes Alive. He and his wife, Emily, have five children.