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To many people, God is an abstract figure who set the world running, but is now largely absent from it. In the Bible, however, God is not only center-stage—he is intimately involved with his people. In The Nearness of God: His Presence with His People Lanier Burns shows that at each stage of the unfolding story of God and his people, God’s presence is never far away.

would give eternal nourishment was more than their manna-oriented minds could digest! The disparity between Fatherly perfection and sinful realities only compounded the offense. In John 6:42 a hostile audience queried, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know?” In the preceding chapter, Jesus explained that “the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father” (5:22–23). The Father and the Son
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