Category: Knowing God

Knowing Yahweh: Preface

 William  October 12, 2007  4 Comments on 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…

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Theological Thursday: Knowing God: The Adequacy Of God: Part III

 William  September 30, 2005  0 Comments on Theological Thursday: Knowing God: The Adequacy Of God: Part III

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…

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Theological Thursdays: Knowing God: The Adequacy Of God Part II

 William  September 22, 2005  0 Comments on Theological Thursdays: Knowing God: The Adequacy Of God Part II

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…

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Theological Thursday: Knowing God: Update

 William  September 16, 2005  1 Comment on Theological Thursday: Knowing God: Update

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…

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Theological Thursdays: Knowing God: The Adequacy Of God Part I

 William  September 8, 2005  0 Comments on Theological Thursdays: Knowing God: The Adequacy Of God Part I

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…

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Theological Thursdays: Knowing God: Reminder

 William  September 1, 2005

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…

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Theological Thursdays: Knowing God: The Adequacy Of God: Preview

 William  August 24, 2005  0 Comments on Theological Thursdays: Knowing God: The Adequacy Of God: Preview

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,…

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Theological Thursdays: Knowing God: Those Inward Trials

 William  August 18, 2005  0 Comments on Theological Thursdays: Knowing God: Those Inward Trials

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…

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Theological Thursdays: Knowing God: Thou Our Guide

 William  August 11, 2005

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…

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Theological Thursdays: Knowing God: Sons Of God Part II

 William  August 4, 2005

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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