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5. The Word Became Flesh

Why God Became Human

‘The Word became flesh and dwelt among us’ (John 1:14).

4. Son of God, Son of Man, Word of God

The Divine-Human Identity of Jesus

Beyond the names Jesus, Lord, and Christ, the New Testament identifies our Saviour by three further titles of immense weight: Son of God, Son of Man, and Word of God.

3. The Name Above Every Name

Jesus as Saviour, Lord, and Christ

Names in Scripture are never mere labels.

2. Not ‘Another Jesus’

How to Recognize the Real Christ

How may we be confident that the Jesus we believe in and commend to others is the real Jesus, and not some imagined or constructed figure?

1. Jesus Christ IS the Gospel

The Fivefold Shape of the Good News

What is the gospel? Ask ten Christians and you may receive ten different answers — some focusing on forgiveness, others on heaven, others on a changed life.

6. Good Out of Evil

How God Overcomes What He Permits

If sin and evil are not from God, yet fall within his allowance, and had no place in the original creation, how then does a good God relate his will to their existence?

5. A Deep Problem

Horrendous Evil in a Good God's World

No doubt, the presence everywhere of devastating and heart-breaking evil in a world created by a perfectly good God presents, from a human perspective, the deepest of all problems.

4. Bounded, Ordered, Governed

The Faithful Father Behind Every Event

How does the goodness of God actually take hold of a world so full of evil and disorder?

3. Evil Overruled

Why God Does Well Even When He Allows the Worst

Although sin rejects the goodness of God, and evil corrupts and opposes it, God's goodness remains such that our lives, though degraded, are not destroyed or dissolved.

2. All Things Work Together

The Certainty of God's Goodness in Suffering

Eventually, everything that exists and all that occurs contributes to the Christian's benefit and blessing.

1. Providence

How a Good God Governs Every Detail of His World

'Ignorance of providence is the ultimate of all miseries; the highest blessedness lies in the knowledge of it.'

5. More Than Information

How God's Revelation Reconciles, Summons, and Transforms

However it is assembled, however it reaches us, knowledge of God is never merely discovered or found.

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