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The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.
J. I. Packer
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J. I. Packer
Age: 93 †
Born: 1926
Born: July 22
Died: 2020
Died: July 17
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Gloucestershire
James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. When you truly know God, you have energy to serve Him, boldness to share Him, and contentment in Him.
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The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity--hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory--because at the Father's will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.
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What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.
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The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,'...a transformed life).
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Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.
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Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we dont teach the confessions and doctrine.
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The way to be truly happy is to be truly human, and the way to be truly human is to be truly godly.
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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 measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.
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The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.
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Have you been holding back from a risky, costly course to which you know in your heart God has called you? Hold back no longer. Your God is faithful to you, and adequate for you. You will never need more than He can supply, and what He supplies, both materially and spiritually, will always be enough for the present.
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If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time.
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We meet God through entering into a relationship both of dependance on Jesus as our Saviour and Friend and of discipleship to Him as our Lord and Master.
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God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.
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A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
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I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
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Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion here is fatal.
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If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God's child, and having God as his Father. If this is not the thought that prompts and controls his worship and prayers and his whole outlook on life, it means that he does not understand Christianity very well at all.
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If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.
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Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.
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