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
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.
two sick sin
There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.
heart desire sin
I never get to the end of mortifying sin because sin in my heart, where it's still marauding even though it's no longer dominant, sin in my heart is constantly expressing itself in new disorderly desires.
should staggering sinner
It is staggering that God should love sinners, yet it is true.
two lessons sin
He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity.
sin
There are no small sins against a great God
needs sin shots
Our best works are shot through with sin and contain something for which we need to be forgiven.
weaker
Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctrine.
indirect lewis
The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
appears change doctrines god means reality stayed understanding walk worship
Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck.
counts editorial gave god inspiring material preparing
I'm saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as part of the inspiring process whereby God, in his sovereignty, gave every word.
editor evident quite testament work
In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
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.