{"product_id":"restoring-the-glory-of-the-name-the-storys-ultimate-good-news-9781734723809","title":"Restoring the Glory of the NAME: the Story's Ultimate Good News","description":"\u003cp\u003eRetells the Bible Story's main plot line, revealing what matters most to God, how everything depends on that factor; his highest purpose for creating earth, mankind, sexual human reproduction, and the new birth; how the resolution of the Story's main conflict--and the prize for which its war rages--is the ultimate Good News, and what God is doing in this age to bring it about. It is not what most people think.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReveals the meanings of God's names in which lie what makes the Good News good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescribes the nobility God planned and created us to live, and why we fall so short of what might have been.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExposes the force that leaves all people spiritually and morally dead, the essential sin by which we insult God, and describes his actions by which only he can restore life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArgues that God's main activity is restoring people to our original image of him in a way that vindicates his own Name, and that by doing so he will prove himself to be the righteous and good Restorer of what he began in creation. This is the ultimate Good News, our essential hope. It answers Jesus' prayer finally to vindicate and restore the Father's Name, what matters most to both him and us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWarns against any empty man-centered \"gospel\" that appeals mainly to human self-interest, that does not fully nourish with God-centeredness, only contributing to the spiritual and moral famine that is ravaging our nation by relegating God to the role of a sky Santa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInvites pastors, Bible teachers, missionaries, theologians, and evangelists to ascertain, live, and teach God's \u003cem\u003ecentral\u003c\/em\u003e purpose for relationship with humanity, the good news he has commissioned us to convey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarlson, Fredric A.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Fredric A. Carlson has been happily married to Maxine Reed Carlson for 62 years. They are the parents of five, the grandparents of 25, and the great-grandparents of 13 and counting. For 32 years they served five churches in every role of lay and ordained creative leadership and leadership development; for five as administrators at Cornerstone University; and for 16 as Director of the Bibles International Bible society of Baptist Mid-Missions.","brand":"Johntenten Press LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50874486161682,"sku":"9781734723809","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5423e6be-33ae-4d3b-bace-3b75dfe92a3b.jpg?v=1737995579","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/restoring-the-glory-of-the-name-the-storys-ultimate-good-news-9781734723809","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}