Are you adding spiritual truths for which you are thankful to your list of 500 things for which you are thankful? Try to focus on more of these to add there.
Finish reading chapter 19.
Answer:
From the Sermon on the Mount, for what three things does adoption serve as the basis?
How is adoption the key to understanding the ministry of the Holy Spirit?
"Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand. Today, if you would hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts,"... Psalm 95:6-8a
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Friday, December 9, 2011
Adopted by God!
Think Thanksgivingly, prayerfully as you add to your Gifts List. Have you already thought about the gifts that propitiation accomplishes? Let's share some of these on Tuesday.
Read in chapter 19, pages 200-209.
Answer the following and be prepared to share your thoughts:
How does God's revelation of Himself in the Old Testament compare with the New Testament revelation?
How does Packer refute the statement that the fatherhood of God "can mean nothing to those whose human father was inadequate"?
How has God made the meaning of his fatherhood clear? What are essential elements of it?
Saturday, December 3, 2011
The Heart of the Gospel, part 1
Read chapter 18 through the first half of page 191.
Provide written answers to these questions:
What is propitiation?
What is the difference between propitiation and expiation?
In the section called "God's Anger," how does Packer characterize the wrath which was propitiated at Calvary?
Provide written answers to these questions:
What is propitiation?
What is the difference between propitiation and expiation?
In the section called "God's Anger," how does Packer characterize the wrath which was propitiated at Calvary?
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