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
christian religious heritage
Wherever Christianity has produced what historians call a 'popular piety' claiming to be part of the national heritage, anti-Christian reaction among the intelligentsia has followed.
christian religious past
Many humanists in the West are stirred by a sense of outrage at what professed Christians, past and present, have done; and this makes them see their humanism as a kind of crusade, with the killing of Christianity as its prime goal.
christian-christmas fiction religious-christmas
Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.
christian religious distance
The modern way with God is to set him at a distance, if not to deny him altogether; and the irony is that modern Christians, preoccupied with maintaining religious practices in an irreligous world, have themselves allowed God to become remote...for churchmen who look at God through the wrong end of the telescope, so reducing him to pigmy proportions, cannot hope to end up as more than pigmy Christians.
prayer spirit sin
I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
taught endeavor response
Evangelizing includes the endeavor to elicit a response to the truth taught.
christian life-changing ignorance
Optimism is a wish without warrant; Christian hope is a certainty, guaranteed by God himself. Optimism reflects ignorance as to whether good things will ever actually come. Christian hope expresses knowledge that every day of his life, and every moment beyond it, the believer can say with truth, on the basis of God's own commitment, that the best is yet to come.
christian greatness church
The Christian's instincts of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God. But this is knowledge which Christians today largely lack: and that is one reason why our faith is so feeble and our worship so flabby... When a person in the church, let alone the person in the street, uses the word God, the thought is rarely of divine majesty.
prayer vigor matter
The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer; and the more you pray, the more matter you will have for praise.
church newton gravity
The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.
conceited sake proud
If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited.
knowing comfort unspeakable
There is unspeakable comfort in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good.
jesus prayer lame
Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do.
struggle maturity luxury
Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do.