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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.
J. I. Packer
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J. I. Packer
Age: 93 †
Born: 1926
Born: July 22
Died: 2020
Died: July 17
Anglican Priest
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James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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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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Living becomes an awesome business when you realize that you spend every moment of your life in the sight and company of an omniscient, omnipresent Creator.
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For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?
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The stars may fall, but God's promises will stand and be fulfilled.
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What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and this the Christian has in a way that no other person has. For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?
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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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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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Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life of the preacher must radiate the reality of what he preaches, 3. Prayer and solid Bible study are basic to effective preaching.
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Our best works are shot through with sin and contain something for which we need to be forgiven.
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Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always.
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The Trinity is the basis of the gospel, and the gospel is a declaration of the Trinity in action.
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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 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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Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart.
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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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A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
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