This book is a compilation of short essays on the nature of God from seventeen different guys from seventeen very different churches. The purpose in each chapter is both to encourage the reader and to correct our habitual view of God with what the Bible teaches about God. The characteristics of God brought up are all important to remember and can keep us from skewing our view of what God is like and what he is able to do in our lives.

The best of the bunch was probably Chapter 15, God Is Not Like Me, by Tony Slough. Tony goes after our tendency to make God in our own image, to put Him on our timetable, to assume He only has our viewpoint, and that His love is as flawed as our love.

If all of the chapters were as good as Tony's then this book would be an easy five stars, but just like some pastors have preaching styles we don't get along with, some pastors have writing styles we don't get along with. But the content is mostly right on, and there is probably something in here to match everyone's stage of life. We all need to strive to correct our drifting view of who God is with truth like that presented in this book. ( )