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The gospel tells that our Judge has become our Savior.
J. I. Packer
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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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God the Father is the giver of Holy Scripture God the Son is the theme of Holy Scripture and God the Spirit is the author, authenticator, and interpreter of Holy Scripture.
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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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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 Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.
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A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
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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 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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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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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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Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.
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There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, He wants me as His friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given His Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose. not merely that we know God, but that He knows us.
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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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If you are walking backward, away from something you think is a mistake, you may be right in supposing it is a mistake, but for you to be walking backward is never right. You know what happens to people who walk backward.... We are meant to walk forward, not backward, and reaction is always a matter of walking backward.
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This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.
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Thank you, Mr.Lewis, for being you. I wouldn't have missed you for the world.
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Our are speculations are not the measure of our God.
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The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications.
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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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Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives... Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you. This way you can waste your life and lose your soul.
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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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