“And just as there are no bounds to His presence with me, so there are no limits to His knowledge of me. Just as I am never left alone, so I never go unnoticed. ‘O LORD, thou hast search me and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising (all my actions and movements), [...]
Posts Tagged ‘J.I. Packer’
There Are No Limits To His Knowledge of Me
Posted in Quotes, tagged Accountability, Creator, Habits, J.I. Packer, Knowledge, Majesty, Omnipresence, Omniscience, Sin, Theology, Worship on August 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
God’s Ways Do Not Change
Posted in Quotes, tagged Fellowship, Grace, Idolatry, Immutability, J.I. Packer, Joy, Love, Repentance, Scripture, Suffering, The Gospel, Theology on August 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“He continues to act towards sinful men in the way that He does in the Bible story. Still He shows His freedom and lordship by discriminating between sinners, causing some to hear the gospel while others do not hear it, and moving some of those who hear it to repentance while leaving others in their [...]
What If There Were No Holy Spirit?
Posted in Quotes, tagged Atonement, Faith, Holy Spirit, Incarnation, J.I. Packer, Jesus Christ, The Church, The Gospel on July 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“It is an extraordinary thing that those who profess to care so much about Christ should know and care so little about the Holy Spirit. Christians are aware of the difference it would make if, after all, it transpired that there had never been an incarnation or an atonement. They know that then they would [...]
The Incarnation: A Wonder of Grace
Posted in Quotes, tagged Atonement, Grace, Incarnation, J.I. Packer, Jesus Christ, Scripture, The Cross, The Gospel on July 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“The crucial significance of the cradle at Bethlehem lies in its place in the sequence of steps down that led the Son of God to the cross of Calvary, and we do not understand till we see it in this context. The key text in the New Testament for interpreting the incarnation is not, therefore, [...]
The Problem with Images and Symbols
Posted in Quotes, tagged Crucifix, Glory, Goodness of God, Idolatry, Images, J.I. Packer, Jesus Christ, Patience, Righteousness, Statues, Symbols, Theology, Worship on May 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
“The heart of the objection to pictures and images is that they inevitability conceal most, if not all, of the truth about the personal nature and character of the divine Being whom they represent. To illustrate: Aaron made a golden calf (that is, a bull-image). It was meant as a visible symbol of Jehovah, the [...]
He Knows Us
Posted in Quotes, tagged Atonement, Goodness of God, Grace, J.I. Packer, Jesus Christ, Joy, Knowing God, Knowledge, Love, Sin, The Gospel, Theology, Worship on May 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it–the fact that He knows me. I am graven on the palms of His hands. I am never out of His mind. All my knowledge of Him depends on His sustained initiative in [...]
Four Marks of People Who Know God
Posted in Quotes, tagged Boldness, Contentment, J.I. Packer, Prayer, Theology on August 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Those who know God… 1. have great energy for God. “Men who know their God are before anything else men who pray, and the first point where their zeal and energy for God’s glory come to expression is in their prayers.” (p.24) 2. have great thoughts of God. “He knows, and foreknows, all things, and [...]
Knowledge of God vs. Knowledge About God
Posted in Quotes, tagged Doctrine, J.I. Packer, Theology on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“A little knowledge of God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge about Him…I am sure that many of us have never really grasped this. We find ourselves a deep interest in theology (which is, our course, a most fascinating subject–the seventeenth century it was every gentleman’s hobby). We read books of theological [...]
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 »
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 [...]
2008 Reading
Posted in Books, tagged Atonement, Books, C.J. Mahaney, Douglas Wilson, J.I. Packer, John Ensor, John Owen, John Piper, Leon Morris, Marriage, Relationships, Shai Linne, Theology on May 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here are a list of books that I am currently reading or plan on reading by the end of the year 2008. Several of these books I’ve already started reading and am slowly reading through each. After each title I’ll give a brief blurb why I am reading it, how much I’ve read so far, [...]
