Understanding God - a Lesson Series for Adults based on J.I. Packer's book, "Knowing God".
# | Lesson Title | Objective |
200 | All Lessons (230K) | Help us understand who God is and what he wants from us. |
201 | A Wonderful Purpose | Help us realize that God has a wonderful purpose for each one of us. |
202 | The Old Scriptures | Help us realize why the Bible is relevant today and still valuable as the fundamental source of information about God. |
203 | Images of God | Help us realize that we tend to build images of God from the images we use in worship that may actually obscure God |
204 | God is not Santa Claus | Help us realize that God is a being, not a principle and His actions toward us are directed by His will, His emotions as well as by our actions. |
205 | The Fields of God | Help us realize that God has had a purpose in the creation of the world and its inhabitants and He has given us the Bible to help us understand what it is. |
206 | The Jealous God | Help us realize that peoples response to God has always been important to God. He looks upon his Church as a new Bride. |
207 | At Arms Lenght | Help us let go of the pristine Christmas manger scene and grab hold of the implications of the Creator becoming a man .. |
208 | What Makes Someone Great | Help us realize that the Incarnation was God's way of coming along side of us and a response to it is required from all. |
209 | From Anger to Favor | Help us understand the concept of propitiation and the implications of the Atonement. |
210 | The Narrow Gate | Help us realize that accepting Jesus as savior involves quite a bit more than just believing who he is. |
211 | The Adoption | Help us realize that God wants more that just to save us from our own sin, he wants to adopt us as sons and daughters. |
212 | The Work of the Spirit | Help us To understand what the Holy Spirit is like, what He does and why it is important. |
213 | These Inward Trials | Students realize that God does not intend the life of a Christian to be without difficulty but through difficulty prepares us for Him. |
214 | A Way of Seeing | To understand the essence of spiritual wisdom. What it is, what to do to gain it and how to know when you have got it. |
215 | Our Unfailing Hope | To realize that God has always been and will continue to be adequate for each of us despite the nature of our earthly life. |