Phill Sacre

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I only write occasionally here now, as you will see. However, there is an archive of over 2,000 posts which I’ve made over the last 20+ years, which are all still accessible.

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  • Knowing God: God’s Love

    This is part of my Lent series on J.I. Packer’s ‘Knowing God’ – first post here. “God is Love” has to be one of the most famous statements about God in the Bible (1 John 4:8, 16) – it’s in the passage which is often read out at weddings. But, it is also one of…

  • Knowing God: God’s Wisdom

    This is the third part of blogging my way through “Knowing God” – see the intro post here. Yesterday I read the chapter “God’s Wisdom and Ours”, which I really needed to hear! One thing which I found particularly helpful was Jim Packer’s analogy about a railway station. Allow me to explain. If you go…

  • Co-workers with God

    This is the second of my lenten reflections on Knowing God (see the first post here). I’m not going to be blogging my way through every chapter, but only bits and pieces that strike me particularly. Well, I was especially struck when reading the chapter ‘Knowing and Being Known’: What happens is that the almighty Creator,…

  • Lenten Reflections: Knowing God

    So, it’s Ash Wednesday – the first day of Lent. I’ve decided not to give anything up; rather, I’ve decided to give myself a task: I’ve decided to read Knowing God by Jim Packer. It’s sat on my shelf for a while now unread, and when I suggested it to someone else to read I…

  • The Mountain of Joy

    What with the one thing and another, it’s been a bit doom and gloom here lately. Every so often I see or read something which really strikes me in a positive way, and I had that experience a couple of days ago. I was reading through the New Testament, preparing for a test next week.…

  • The Intolerance of Tolerance

    I’ve just finished reading “The Intolerance of Tolerance” by Don Carson. It’s not his normal subject matter, but personally I found the application of his insight and intelligence to a topic like tolerance very helpful. It sparked off a train of thought in my mind about tolerance – as such, this is not a book…

  • Family Illness: Update

    I mentioned about this time last year that my Mum was not well. Well, she’s been on chemo pretty much since then and, despite the side effects of the treatment, she’s been doing pretty well. However, in around November she started getting a bit unsteady on her feet. We initially thought it was another side-effect…

  • Rock of Ages and Justification

    Justification is a word which I’ve heard quite a lot recently: we’ve been studying it with Mike Ovey in our Christian Doctrine classes. It’s great and humbling stuff, thinking through salvation and what God has done for us. With all this in mind, I went to church this morning where we sang “Rock of Ages”,…

  • My World: Bookshelf Ordering

    Given that this is my personal blog, I occasionally like to write posts which give you, dear reader, an insight into my internal world. This is such a post. What I am currently wrestling with is… how to order books on my bookshelves. (I’m not promising that you’ll be enthralled by this insight into my…

  • 2012: The Year in Review

    It’s that time again: time for another one of my much-loved reviews of the year. Well, I’ve only really done one review of the year before, for 2011, but still – who’s counting, eh? Once again, this isn’t really a review of things which have come out this year, so much as a review of…