"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. The lazy and faint-hearted should be warned about this timeless work-God is magnified, the sinner is humbled, and the saint encouraged. Having rescued us from the individual hunches of our ultra-tolerant theological age, Packer points the reader to the true character of God with his theological competence and compassionate heart. KNOWING THE LIVING GOD Introduction METHOD OF STUDY The great goal of this study is for the student to have an encounter with God through His Word. These next pages will guide you through six weeks of study. As you practice discerning, know God graciously allows our errors to be the best teacher in hearing correctly in the future. ![]() Sweeping in scope, the book deals with the rise and fall of various world empires. In other words: to be a Christian is to be a hedonist. If God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him, then we must make it our aim to be as happy as we possibly can be in God. ![]() Author Elizabeth Eliot wrote that amid the lofty content Packer puts the hay where the sheep can reach it-plainly shows us ordinary folks what it means to know God. This study cannot give you a formula by which you can discern His voice with 100 percent accuracy. The book of Daniel, named after and written by Daniel in the sixth century BC, records the events of Daniel’s life and the visions he saw from the time of his exile in 605 (1:1) until the third year of King Cyrus in 536 (10:1). with an Explanation of the Resource and an Introduction for Leaders. Each chapter is so specific in focus (covering topics such as the trinity, election, God's wrath, and God's sovereignty), that each succeeding chapter's theology seems to rival the next, until one's mind is so expanded that one's entire view of God has changed. What began as a number of consecutive articles angled for honest, no-nonsense readers who were fed up with facile Christian verbiage in 1973, Knowing God has become a contemporary classic by creating small studies out of great subjects. Knowing God aims to redirect our attention to the simple, deep truth that to know God is to love His Word. Packer, however, Christians have become enchanted by modern skepticism and have joined the gigantic conspiracy of misdirection by failing to put first things first. ![]() A lifelong pursuit of knowing God should embody the Christian's existence.
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