At the deepest level, what is the chief end of man?

According to our guest today, in line with the Christian tradition,

it is to know and glorify God.

Yet for many people, including Christians, God remains a vague,

wispy, kind, super-sized projection of ourselves in the sky or just an impossible

to please kill joy. How can we find joy in knowing God when our view of

him is often so inadequate? Our guest today, Talbot professor Dr. Thaddeus

Williams, has written an excellent new book called

Revereing God and by the way he is a guest fill in on the weekly cultural

update the goal this is talk about how do we have a robust biblical view of God so we can glorify

him appropriately.

That is good to have you on brother.

It's a joy to be back.

Let's just jump right in.

Your last two books dealt with issues like biblical justice and

the mantra we hear in our culture such as following your heart. Those are kind of timely cultural

issues. But when I got a copy of this, I was like, wow, this is a timeless kind of book.

Why the shift and what makes this book revering God so unique?

Sure, great question.

I think a big part of it is, you know, spending four years researching and writing about social

justice and all the controversies tied up in that word combo.

And then don't follow your heart, writing about expressive individualism and the shape that takes in the culture.

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