DISCS

Introduction – Welcome to The Weight of Majesty
Week 1 – Knowing the God Who Is Incomprehensible
Week 2 – Knowing the God Who Cannot Change
Week 3 – Knowing the God Who Is Infinite & Eternal
Week 4 – Knowing the God Who Is Everywhere
Week 5 – Knowing the God Who Is Almighty
Week 6 – Knowing the God Who Knows All
Week 7 – Knowing the God Who Rules All
Week 8 – Knowing the God Who Is Holy
Week 9 – Knowing the God of Wrath
Week 10 – Knowing the God Who Is Good
Week 11 – Knowing the God of Love
Week 12 – Knowing the God Who Is Patient & Zealous

(Each DVD has a 45-minute runtime)

Following each teaching session is a collection of comments from interviews with contemporary Christian leaders who explain how a biblical appreciation of God’s character has affected their own lives and ministries. Among these men are Sinclair Ferguson (Dundee, Scotland), Steve Lawson (Dallas, TX), Joel Beeke (Grand Rapids, MI), Anthony Mathenia (Radford, VA), Conrad Mbewe (Lusaka, Zambia), Jordan Thomas (Memphis, TN), Ian Hamilton (Inverness, Scotland), Geoff Thomas (Aberystwyth, Wales), Jeremy Walker (Crawley, England), Garry Williams (London, England), and Andrew Davies (Cwmbran, South Wales).

A NOTE FROM DR. JOHN SNYDER

When the Behold Your God: Rethinking God Biblically study was released in 2013, we felt (as did many others) that the evangelical churches needed to face some hard questions. Many had carefully traced the symptoms of an internal decay within evangelicalism, a decay that was occurring even while outwardly there appeared to be continued successes. Behold Your God: Rethinking God Biblically was written with the desire to help stir God’s people by pointing them back to the fountainhead—God Himself. Precious time was being wasted as Western evangelicals attempted to fix the external problems. It was our belief that the surest hope of a cure was to deal with the root issue, and that root issue appeared to be an inadequate understanding of our own God.

The response to that study, by God’s grace, has been far greater than we could have imagined. During the last five years the emails, letters, and personal testimonies of those who have benefitted from the study have been gratefully received. It is always humbling to see God use our efforts as a part of something far greater than anything we could accomplish. Within these communications there has been a recurrent question: where do I go to find more resources on the character of God? Thankfully, there are many fine treatments of God’s perfections. Often, however, they are either very large or very complex books. In response to this question, we have put together this new study dealing primarily with the attributes of God rather than ways the evangelical church often lives below His self-revelation. In a sense, The Weight of Majesty is a continuation of the theme we explored in week one of Rethinking God Biblically—that God Himself is the great attraction of the Christian life. By His help we hope to continue going deeper into the themes that were introduced in the original study through several forthcoming installments in the Behold Your God series.

Nothing is so satisfying for the true Christian as an ever-increasing and experiential knowledge of our God. This cannot be gained safely without diligently searching the Bible. Therefore, the real purpose of this book is to guide you back into those passages which contain some of the most significant descriptions of God. Avoid the temptation to merely get through the exercises without wrestling honestly with these matters. Sit long at the feet our Heavenly Father and ask Him to tell you about Himself. We know it is too easy to check a box, fill in the blank with the correct word, and move on unaffected. Don’t settle for undigested concepts or merely emotional responses to passages. Plead with God to help you adjust everything in life to fit what you are learning about Him. Bring both your mind and heart together, and bow before God in real worship as you study each day, until like Job you feel compelled to say, “I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; but now my eye sees You!” You will not be disappointed with the Living God.

May this study be a lifelong friend as we labor to live unto God.

— DR JOHN D SNYDER

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DISCS

Introduction – Welcome to The Weight of Majesty
Week 1 – Knowing the God Who Is Incomprehensible
Week 2 – Knowing the God Who Cannot Change
Week 3 – Knowing the God Who Is Infinite & Eternal
Week 4 – Knowing the God Who Is Everywhere
Week 5 – Knowing the God Who Is Almighty
Week 6 – Knowing the God Who Knows All
Week 7 – Knowing the God Who Rules All
Week 8 – Knowing the God Who Is Holy
Week 9 – Knowing the God of Wrath
Week 10 – Knowing the God Who Is Good
Week 11 – Knowing the God of Love
Week 12 – Knowing the God Who Is Patient & Zealous

(Each DVD has a 45-minute runtime)

Following each teaching session is a collection of comments from interviews with contemporary Christian leaders who explain how a biblical appreciation of God’s character has affected their own lives and ministries. Among these men are Sinclair Ferguson (Dundee, Scotland), Steve Lawson (Dallas, TX), Joel Beeke (Grand Rapids, MI), Anthony Mathenia (Radford, VA), Conrad Mbewe (Lusaka, Zambia), Jordan Thomas (Memphis, TN), Ian Hamilton (Inverness, Scotland), Geoff Thomas (Aberystwyth, Wales), Jeremy Walker (Crawley, England), Garry Williams (London, England), and Andrew Davies (Cwmbran, South Wales).

DISCS
Introduction – Welcome to The Weight of Majesty
Week 1 – Knowing the God Who Is Incomprehensible
Week 2 – Knowing the God Who Cannot Change
Week 3 – Knowing the God Who Is Infinite & Eternal
Week 4 – Knowing the God Who Is Everywhere
Week 5 – Knowing the God Who Is Almighty
Week 6 – Knowing the God Who Knows All
Week 7 – Knowing the God Who Rules All
Week 8 – Knowing the God Who Is Holy
Week 9 – Knowing the God of Wrath
Week 10 – Knowing the God Who Is Good
Week 11 – Knowing the God of Love
Week 12 – Knowing the God Who Is Patient & Zealous

(Each DVD has a 45-minute runtime)

Following each teaching session is a collection of comments from interviews with contemporary Christian leaders who explain how a biblical appreciation of God’s character has affected their own lives and ministries. Among these men are Sinclair Ferguson (Dundee, Scotland), Steve Lawson (Dallas, TX), Joel Beeke (Grand Rapids, MI), Anthony Mathenia (Radford, VA), Conrad Mbewe (Lusaka, Zambia), Jordan Thomas (Memphis, TN), Ian Hamilton (Inverness, Scotland), Geoff Thomas (Aberystwyth, Wales), Jeremy Walker (Crawley, England), Garry Williams (London, England), and Andrew Davies (Cwmbran, South Wales).

‘Personally, I would like to think that he was actually far more interested in God coming than he was interested in a narrow view of revival. He was too God-centred to be interested in merely the horizontal.’ — SINCLAIR B. FERGUSON

‘I’m excited to have the movie exist, and to be released…We all have a set of people who have greatly influenced us, and we don’t know who we are without them…some of these people are more period pieces – they don’t connect quite as readily. I’ve never had that with MLJ.’ — ALBERT MOHLER

’50 minutes later you walked out and you had met with God. He had an amazing ability to make everything he was talking about from Scripture important.’ — D.A. CARSON

‘Don’t concentrate on Lloyd Jones’ fame – all of us praise God that he had the extended influence that he had, and that he still has today, but the core of that influence was what the man was. If you remember Iain Murray in the film saying, “when you were around this man, you felt like you had been around a man who knew God”. That’s the core of Lloyd Jones. He knew the Word of God, he knew his God, he was a man of prayer, he was a man of the Word, he preached that word, he relied on God’s means, and then he let it do it’s work…Another thing that I love about the film is that it shows what a warm person Lloyd-Jones was in his family relations, though he was sober when he was in public ministry in the pulpit. I think that’s a wonderful combination to see.’ — LIGON DUNCAN

‘The compilers of this DVD series carefully weave together key teachings about God from the Bible with the life stories of men and women who served him at different times in church history. This set of studies will most surely draw people into a richer, deeper experience of life with God.’ — MARK JOHNSTON

‘Using captivating historical vignettes that illustrate the truths being considered BYG goes on to give clear biblical teaching on those biblical themes. Each lesson is a step toward recognizing that the God who worked so powerfully in the past has not changed and the promises and means have not changed. I would encourage you to use this video series in personal study or in a study group.’ — JEFF KINGSWOOD

Series Description

Behold Your God is a 12-week study for churches, small groups, families or individuals containing 12 sessions that are reinforced by a 12-week daily workbook. Each week’s lesson is preceded by a brief historical profile of a notable man or woman of God such as George Muller, A. W. Tozer, Samuel Rutherford, Charles Spurgeon, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Amy Carmichael, Robert Murray M’Cheyne, George Whitefield, Daniel Rowland and Jonathan Edwards.

The heart of each DVD is a 30-minute lesson on one aspect of the Christian life and how it is affected by a biblical rethinking of God’s character. The teaching sessions are led by Dr. John Snyder, pastor of Christ Church in New Albany, Mississippi.

Following each teaching session is a collection of comments from interviews with contemporary Christian leaders who explain how a biblical appreciation of God’s character has affected their own lives and ministries. Among these men are Paul Washer, Richard Owen Roberts, Conrad Mbewe, Andrew Davies, Jordan Thomas and Eifion Evans.

The video portions were filmed on location in the United States and the United Kingdom at key historical sites associated with the lives of the men and women we are considering.

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Articles

• Behold Your God: Rethinking God Biblically
• First Week Free: Behold Your God

‘The compilers of this DVD series carefully weave together key teachings about God from the Bible with the life stories of men and women who served him at different times in church history. This set of studies will most surely draw people into a richer, deeper experience of life with God.’ — MARK JOHNSTON

‘Using captivating historical vignettes that illustrate the truths being considered BYG goes on to give clear biblical teaching on those biblical themes. Each lesson is a step toward recognizing that the God who worked so powerfully in the past has not changed and the promises and means have not changed. I would encourage you to use this video series in personal study or in a study group.’ — JEFF KINGSWOOD