Category: Knowing God

I have been thinking about J. I. Packer’s assertion in the last chapter we looked at (Sons Of God), and I had a possible insight about the “Great Commission” that I would like to develop. Packer’s point as I see…

Packer starts out this chapter with a provocative question: “What is a Christian?” Admitting that there are many ways to answer that question, he states that the richest answer is that a “Christian is one who has God as Father.”…

Due to computer problems today (my server has a failing boot disk) I have not been able to finish the Knowing God lesson on the first half of Chapter Nineteen: Sons of God. It will be up tomorrow, computers and…

This edition of our study was delayed. In our last lesson we asked, “If God be for us, who can be against us?” It is really meant as a rhetorical question because there is no other answer other than no…

Section Three is where Dr. Packer begins icing the cake he has spent the last seventeen chapters baking. He takes the title for this section from Romans 8:31 “What shall we then say to these things? If God be for…

Taking a moment to look back and review what you have just completed is an important part of the learning experience, especially when you ask yourself some basic questions such as: 1. What things stick in my mind about this…

Rebecca of Rebecca Writes commented that our last week’s subject, The Goodness And Severity Of God comes from one of her favorite scriptures. Indeed Packer chose Rebecca’s favorite for his opening words, which are taken from the first half of…

In the years I have been I been shepherding people through this book, I probably have lost almost half of them by the time we get to this chapter. There has only been one exception, a group of young adults…

If you thought last weeks lesson on God The Judge was hardcore, well this week takes us a step further in dealing the unpalatable subject of wrath and the God who has it as part of his active vocabulary. Remember,…

We now move from grace to judgment, from God the loving Father about whom songs are written extolling his graciousness, Great God of wonders! all thy ways Display the attributes divine; But countless acts of pardoning grace Beyond thine other…