Your God Is Too Small [Paperback]

J.B. Phillips (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 1997

Your God Is Too Small explores the ways in which we can find a truly meaningful and constructive God for ourselves, big enough to account for our current experience of life and big enough to command our highest admiration and respect.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Touchstone; Yellowed pages/ Ex-Library edition (May 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684846969
• ISBN-13: 978-0684846965
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #42,249 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #5 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Protestantism > Inspirational

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52 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wrestle with your conception of God, December 7, 1997

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Phil Wade (Georgia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your God Is Too Small (Paperback)

Do you struggle to understand why God didn't answer your prayer?
Are you convinced that He will like you more if you do the right things?
Or do you think God is a lovable papa bear in the sky who only wants you to be happy? Reading Phillips' classic may disturb you into a proper understanding of the real and living God, a mystery whose ways are higher than our ways, whose thoughts are unfathomable.

In this pocket-sixed book, Phillips deals with incorrect ideas about the God of the Bible. He's not a cosmic policeman or a divine grandfather. Neither is He a bellhop, a tottering old man, nor a fire-breathing despot. He is a God who loves the world for His own glory and calls everyone to repentance for their sins against Him. Does that fit your understanding of God? If not, you may be deceived. Don't let yourself exist with a God too small for your life.
Read this book. Come to know the infinite Almighty.

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simple yet profound, October 17, 2000

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E. Johnson (El Cajon, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your God Is Too Small (Paperback)

In this 40-year-old short Christian classic, Phillips does a masterful job showing just who God isn't...and is. There are certain false images that we may have of God, but Philips tackles these in the first half of the book. I believe much of the views today's America has about God come from the media and their stereotypical nonsense--this is the kind of thinking Phillips seeks to destroy. The second half is dedicated to the constructive view of the authentic God who, it should be pointed out, is much greater than the limited box many stick Him in.

29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Second Half is Better, June 13, 2000

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andrew p fleming (Hamburg, New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your God Is Too Small (Paperback)

I picked up an early edition of this book at a used book sale recently. I had heard of Phillips, but had not read any of his writings. Unlike an earlier reviewer, I enjoyed the second half of the book much more than the first. I am a C.S. Lewis fan, so I am already quite familiar with the "destructive" views of God which are briefly examined in the first half of this book. But, the second part of the book in which the "constructive" view/feel for God is explored is, in my estimation, good and original stuff. [I liked that Phillips used the word "stuff" so I thought I'd add it here.] Like Lewis, and unlike so many of the more modern Christian writers, Phillips can certainly "turn a phrase". He writes so well that it makes his constructive vision of God, in the person of Jesus, come alive and convince. Christians should share/mention the book when evangelizing; non-Christians should read it to see that God is big enough to handle their questio ns and criticisms.