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Knowing God

J. I. Packer’s study of the character of God and what it means to know him rather than only know about him — a chapter at a time on his majesty, love, wrath, and grace, written for the ordinary reader but not thinned out. Widely used as a first serious book of theology.

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Why this is listed

The bridge between a devotional and a systematic theology: rich enough to stretch a reader, plain enough to finish, and warm rather than merely technical. It is the book to hand someone who wants to think about God and does not yet have the vocabulary, which is exactly the reader Ripened Harvest is for.

How to start

  1. Open ivpress.com (opens an external site) and read what InterVarsity Press says about itself before you read anything else.
  2. Confirm the cost and level fit: paid, intermediate, over weeks.
  3. Note the tradition — Broadly evangelical. It will shape what you are taught, and that is worth knowing going in.
  4. Put the first session in your calendar now. The gap between reading about study and doing it is a calendar entry.

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