I mentioned in an earlier post that I was planning on reading J.I. Packer’s Knowing God. Here are some of my thoughts and reflections after reading the first chapter. Knowing about God versus Knowing God “…if we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it is bound to go bad on us. It will make [...]
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Knowing God, Chapter 1: The Study of God
Posted in Currently Reading, Devotional, Quotes, tagged Books, C.J. Mahaney, J.I. Packer, Meditation, New Attitude, Theology on June 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Blessed Are The Pure in Heart…
Posted in Devotional, Quotes, tagged Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Purity, Sermon on the Mount on June 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a quote from Martyn Lloyd-Jones‘ Studies in the Sermon on the Mount commenting on Matthew 5:8: “But of course that is a mere nothing as compared with what is yet to be. ‘Now we see through a glass, darkly.’[1 Corinthians 13:12]. We see in a way we had not seen before, but it [...]
The Wrath of God
Posted in Devotional, tagged A.W. Pink, Doctrine, J.I. Packer, Knowing God, Quotes, The Wrath of God on June 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
A few days ago I read a chapter on the wrath of God in J.I. Packer’s, Knowing God. The entire chapter was amazing, but here I will just entice you with just a few quotes that I highlighted. The first quote is about Jesus’ teaching on “losing your soul”, or essentially hell. This was especially [...]
The Hidden Treasure and Pearl of Greatest Price
Posted in Devotional, tagged Matthew Henry, Prayer, Song Lyrics on June 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This morning I was reading the gospel of Matthew, chapters 12 and 13. Christ is teaching his disciples in many parables and I have been meditating on two them today: the parable of the hidden teasure and the parable of the pearl of great value. The Parable of the Hidden Treasure “The kingdom of heaven [...]
