Knowing Yahweh: Preface
In 2005, I began a yearlong study of J. I. Packer’s wonderful book, Knowing God. Today I begin what will become a yearlong effort to write my own book along similar lines as Packer’s. You could say this study is…
…A heart and mind searching for truth in a lying, fallen world.
In 2005, I began a yearlong study of J. I. Packer’s wonderful book, Knowing God. Today I begin what will become a yearlong effort to write my own book along similar lines as Packer’s. You could say this study is…
As we wind down this study after a long journey through two introductions and twenty-two chapters, we come to the end of Packer’s argument, what he has been building toward since we took the first steps along our journey as…
In Part I of our lesson on The Adequacy Of God we looked at issues that were not central to the cultural milleau when Dr. Packer wrote Knowing God. Issues such as Post-modernism in larger world and the Emergent or…
The second lesson in chapter 22 will be delayed. I apologize. We are at a wedding, which I am photographing, this weekend and I hope to get the lesson done by Tuesday. You can find all of the previous lessons…
Packer begins this final chapter with an assumption, stated clearly in the title: that God is adequate. He bases his arguments from the book of Romans. He starts out by asking a question, “What do you look for in the…
This is a reminder that we will begin looking at Chapter 22: The Adequacy Of God of J. I. Packer’s Knowing God next Thursday. It will take at least three weeks to deal with this final chapter, one of the…
The book Why Bad Things Happen To Good People basically postulated a limited God who could not intervene in or control everything that happened to his children. It was written from a Jewish perspective. Now in the Emmergent Church movement,…
Packer opens this chapter with an indictment of those who in the name of love and kindness magnify grace and deemphasize sin and judgment. He says instead of being kind they are actually cruel. Now he is not talking about…
Now that we know we are sons of God what does that mean to us as we go about our daily life and make the decisions that face us each day? Does God help us with these decisions? Does he…
In Part I of this chapter we began examining the significance of our adoption as sons of God. Dr. Packer argued that of all the blessings that the gospel imparts to us, including justification, adoption is the highest and greatest…
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