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justinchonaker's review
challenging
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.75
Highly recommend!
kennyk63's review
5.0
Wow! So much better the second time around. I love chapter 12 The Love of God. "God's love is an exercise of His goodness toward individual sinners whereby, having identified Himself with their welfare, He has given His Son to be their Savior, and now brings them to know and enjoy Him in a covenant relation." Packer explanation of the various parts of this definition has changed the way I understand and experience the love of God.
brandypainter's review
4.0
This book is too big to completely convey the essence of in one short review. I mean, look at the title. That's a pretty big subject to cover in one book. Yet J.I. Packer does a remarkable job with it. He begins by discussing the difference between knowing about God and actually knowing God. He is working on the premise that Christians can claim the former but few can truly claim the latter. The book goes on to discuss various attributes of God, misconceptions Christians have about Him and the truth in Scripture. The book is well reference and doctrinally sound. There are times when the prose is longwinded but it was not overly difficult to read. It is one of those books that should be read more than once. There is no way to process all of it in just one read but even reading it once I got so much from it. I will be back for more.