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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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J. I. Packer
Age: 93 †
Born: 1926
Born: July 22
Died: 2020
Died: July 17
Anglican Priest
Christian Theologian
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James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.
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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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This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.
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Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we dont teach the confessions and doctrine.
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What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.
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The stars may fall, but God's promises will stand and be fulfilled.
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The Holy Spirit is God the evangelist.
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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 Trinity is the basis of the gospel, and the gospel is a declaration of the Trinity in action.
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God is good to all in some ways and to some in all ways.
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The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times.
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To know God's love is indeed heaven on earth.
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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 healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep on his soul, who trembles at God's word, who lets it dwell in him richly by constant meditation upon it, and who tests and reforms his life daily in response to it.
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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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Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...a cknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.
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Simple assent to the gospel, divorced from a transforming commitment to the living Christ, is by Biblical standards less than faith, and less than saving, and to elicit only assent of this kind would be to secure only false conversions.
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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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