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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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J. I. Packer
Age: 93 †
Born: 1926
Born: July 22
Died: 2020
Died: July 17
Anglican Priest
Christian Theologian
Theologian
University Teacher
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Twyning
Gloucestershire
James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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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.
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The gospel tells that our Judge has become our Savior.
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God's overriding goal is to glorify Himself.
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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.
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My advice to a new husband is nothing more than 'husbands, love your wives.' And 'love your wife as Christ has loved the church.' Never forget that you are Christ's representative in serving your wife.
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We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?
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We are to order our lives by the light of His Law, not by our guesses about His plan.
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Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart.
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For dishonest thinking, however well-intentioned, can only discredit the cause it serves, and must in the long run boomerang disastrously on those who indulge in it.
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The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.
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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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The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.
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The Holy Spirit is God the evangelist.
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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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God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning.
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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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Our are speculations are not the measure of our God.
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The gift of sonship to God becomes ours not through being born, but through being born again.
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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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Im amazed at the amount of time people spend on the Internet.
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