Monthly Archives: September 2020

“What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?”  Romans 8: 31… “He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all—how will He … Continue reading →

In the previous post*, I discussed “If God is for us, who is against us,” the idea that if God is on our side, no opposition can crush us.  That is thought number one of J. I. Packer’s “four final … Continue reading →

Four final thoughts… J.I. Packer opens his book Knowing God with a warning.  My book “at best is a string of beads: a series of small studies of great subjects.”  He is humble about his undertaking, the writing of a … Continue reading →

Many years ago, the teacher of my adult Sunday school class brought a hatbox to class.  Maybe that is why I remember this so well.  Not too many people today even know what a hatbox is.  This was no ordinary … Continue reading →

Adequacy:  the state or quality of being adequate; sufficiency for a particular purpose. In J.I. Packer’s book Knowing God, he has painstakingly taken us through chapters dedicated to “knowing our Lord” [part 1], “beholding our Lord” [part 2] and now … Continue reading →