"~Kita Seringkali beranggapan bahwa anugerah Tuhan bagi kita anak-anakNya, semata-mata hanyalah kehidupan kekal. Padahal faktanya tidaklah demikian. John Owen menulis: "" Selain menjanjikan pengampunan dosa bagi orang percaya, Injil juga menjanjikan damai sejahtera, sukacita, kekuatan rohani, jaminan, dan pengharapan. Akan tetapi, banyak orang Kristen yang dalam kehidupan rohaninya hanya memper…
This edition is updated with Americanized language and spelling and a new preface by the author. Stemming from Packer's profound theological knowledge, Knowing God brings together two important facets of the Christian faith― knowing about God and also knowing God through the context of a close relationship with the person of Jesus Christ. Written in an engaging and practical tone, this though…
The Apostles Creed is the oldest, most beautiful succinct summary of Christian beliefs. Though often recited in unison during worship services, the creed begins with the phrase "I believe," making it a deeply personal profession of faith. But when was the last time you examined it closely? In Affirming the Apostles' Creed, an excerpt from Growing in Christ, noted Bible scholar and author J. …
J. I. Packer has had a long-standing passion for the Puritans. Their understanding of God and His ways with man has largely formed his own spirituality and theological outlook. In A Quest for Godliness, the esteemed author of Knowing God and a dozen other books shares with his readers the rich world of Puritanism that has been so influential in his own life. Dr. Packer masterfully uncovers the …
Yesus Kristus Menjanjikan Kesatuan bagi Gereja-Nya Apakah kaum injili terus terpecah belah menjadi fragmen-fragmen kecil seperti yang ditakutkan oleh sebagian orang? atau apakah ada bukti yang jelas tentang kesatuan itu dalam kalangan evangelikalisme? Teolog terkenal J.I. Packer dan Thomas C. Oden mengemukakan bukti adanya konsensus yang signifikan di antara kaum injili yang mempersatukan …
J. I. Packer lays out his grandest panorama yet of the Christian faith. Here is an eloquent restatement of God's truth.
WOLFHART PANNENBERG is widely regarded as one of the foremost theologians in the world today. The publication of this book advances Pannenberg's masterly three-volume Systematic Theology - a work that will surely come to stand as one of the grand and lasting theological statements of the twentieth century. Moving beyond his commanding discussions of epistemology and theology proper in Volume…
Among the several prominent themes in the Bible, the story of Israel is one that has attracted recent attention and study. The biblical story of Israel--in its election, sin, exile and restoration--is a finely articulated drama of the glory and the plight of the universal story of humanity and creation. And the story of Jesus, born from the womb of Israel as its Messiah and true seed of Abraham…
John Calvin had a profound understanding of the atoning work of Christ. His writings are still one of the major sources scholars and others rely on to give insight into what was accomplished by Jesus on the cross. In this book Robert Peterson first examines what Calvin says regarding the love of God, the Incarnation, and Christ's offices of prophet, priest and king. He goes on to consider Calvi…