The Goodness of God Made Simple

God is good, all the time. But what do we mean when we say it — and can we still believe it in the valley?

"Taste and see that the LORD is good" (Psalm 34:8) is not a slogan; it is an invitation. In this twelfth-and-counting volume of the Made Simple Framework, Kimani Upshur, M.Ed., opens twelve windows on the goodness of God: His goodness in creation, in His character, in every gift He gives, in the kindness that leads us to repentance (Romans 2:4), in the loving discipline of a Father, in His hidden providence, and — honestly, never glibly — in the middle of suffering. You will see goodness with a face in Jesus Christ, who "went about doing good" (Acts 10:38); goodness growing in you by the Holy Spirit; and goodness that never ends, stretching into the new heaven and the new earth.

Explicitly Trinitarian and Bible-first throughout — prayer to the Father, through Jesus Christ, by the Holy Spirit — this book refuses both prosperity-gospel shortcuts and despair. Each chapter ends with a practical step you can take this week, so the goodness you read about becomes the goodness you live in.

Whether you are on the mountaintop or in the valley, this book will help you do more than know that God is good. It will help you trust it.

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