J. I. Packer
J. I. Packer
JamesInnell Packeris a British-born Canadian Christian theologian in the low church Anglican and Reformed traditions. He currently serves as the Board of Governors' Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is considered one of the most influential evangelicals in North America. He has been the theologian emeritus of the Anglican Church in North America, since its inception in 2009...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth22 July 1926
eye
Whatever else in the Bible catches your eye, do not let it distract you from Him.
heart law renewal
Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart.
grace merit guilty
The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.
would-be christ salvation
Calvary not merely made possible the salvation of those for whom Christ died; it ensured that they would be brought to faith and their salvation made actual.
christian godly greatness
We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal.
limits scripture arguing
When we reach the outer limit of what Scripture says, it is time to stop arguing and start worshipping.
church world would-be
Were it not for the work of the Holy Spirit there would be no gospel, no faith, no church, no Christianity in the world at all.
jesus mean ideas
We are not fit for a place in God's family; the idea of his loving and exalting us sinners as he loves and has exalted the Lord Jesus sounds ludicrous and wild -- yet that, and nothing less than that, is what our adoption means.
simple religion utterance
The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.
heart doe theology
If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.
prayer simple meditation
How can we turn our knowledge about God into knowledge of God? The rule for doing this is simple but demanding. It is that we turn each Truth that we learn about God into matter for meditation before God, leading to prayer and praise to God.
mystery new-testament incarnation
The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains.
study disregard blunders
Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.
fruit justified truth-is
The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,'...a transformed life).