J. I. Packer
J. I. Packer
JamesInnell Packeris a British-born Canadian Christian theologian in the low church Anglican and Reformed traditions. He currently serves as the Board of Governors' Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is considered one of the most influential evangelicals in North America. He has been the theologian emeritus of the Anglican Church in North America, since its inception in 2009...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth22 July 1926
order law light
We are to order our lives by the light of His Law, not by our guesses about His plan.
christian humility roots
The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God
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Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.
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It is often the case, as all the saints know, that fellowship with the Father and the Son is most vivid and sweet, and Christian joy is greatest, when the cross is heaviest.
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The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration
love-is heaven earth
To know God's love is indeed heaven on earth.
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We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.
biblical destiny views
Only when it is seen that what decides each individual's destiny is whether or not God decides to save him from his sins, and that this is a decision that God need not make in any individual case, can one begin to grasp the biblical view of grace.
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The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets. Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the Incarnation.
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The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times.
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There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge.
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The most excellent study of expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity.
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The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing .
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Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire.