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Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way.

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J. I. Packer
Age: 93 †
Born: 1926
Born: July 22
Died: 2020
Died: July 17
Anglican Priest
Christian Theologian
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Gloucestershire
James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God and received into heaven.
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Think against your feelings argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread look up from your problems to the God of the gospel.
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The unceasing activity of the Creator whereby, in overflowing bounty and goodwill, He upholds His creatures in ordered existence, guides and governs all events, circumstances, and free acts of angels and men, and directs everything to its appointed goal, for His own glory.
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Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart.
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The stars may fall, but God's promises will stand and be fulfilled.
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Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.
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If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.
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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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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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The gospel does in truth proclaim the redemption of reason. Obscurantism is always evil, and wilful error is always sin., All truth is God's truth facts, as such, are sacred, and nothing is more un-Christian than to run away from them.
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Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is the agent as well as the object.
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The very quality of books to read and facts to master with which the twentieth-century man is confronted encourages him to think broadly and superficially about much, but hinders him from thinking deeply and thoroughly about anything.
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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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N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds
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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.
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This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.
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There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.
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God has spoken to man, and the Bible is his Word, given to us to make us wise unto salvation... Godliness means responding to God's revelation in trust and obedience, faith and worship, prayer and praise, submission and service. Life must be seen and lived in the light of God's Word. This, and nothing else, is true religion.
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Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God.
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If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited.
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