my life and my doctrine

I’m preparing a sermon this week on Job 38-41, the two speeches of God to Job. It’s been great to dip back into JI Packer’s Knowing God, DB Knox’s The Everlasting God and DA Carson’s How Long, O Lord. Packer’s challenge when this was published in 1973 is still relevant today:

A well-known book is called Your God is Too Small; it is a timely title. We are poles apart from our evangelical forefathers at this point, even when we confess our faith in their words. When you start reading Luther, or Edwards, or Whitefield, though your doctrine may be theirs, you soon find yourself wondering whether you have any acquaintance at all the mighty God whom they knew so intimately.