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The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against us, is for us. No account of God's peace which does not start here can do other than mislead.
J. I. Packer
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J. I. Packer
Age: 93 †
Born: 1926
Born: July 22
Died: 2020
Died: July 17
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Our high and privileged calling is to do the will of God in the power of God for the glory of God.
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Our are speculations are not the measure of our God.
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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.
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Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.
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There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me.
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This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.
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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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The Holy Spirit is God the evangelist.
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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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