Category Archives: J.I. Packer
“Glad and happy to do it” by J.I. Packer
“It is a great privilege to evangelize; it is a wonderful thing to be able to tell others of the love of Christ, knowing that there is nothing that they need more urgently to know, and no knowledge in the … Continue reading
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“Personal yet majestic” by J.I. Packer
“Today, vast stress is laid on the thought that God is personal, but this truth is so stated as to leave the impression that God is a person of the same sort as we are– weak, inadequate, ineffective, a little … Continue reading
“The repentance that Christ requires” by J.I. Packer
“The repentance that Christ requires of His people consists in a settled refusal to set any limits to the claims which He may make on their lives. Our Lord knew– who better?– how costly His followers would find it to … Continue reading
“Christ-centered means cross-centered” by Mark Dever
“True Christ-centeredness is, and ever must be, cross-centeredness. The cross on which the divine-human mediator hung, and from which He rose to reign on the basis and in the power of His atoning death, must become the vantage point from … Continue reading
“The supreme mystery” by J.I. Packer
“The really staggering Christian claim is that Jesus of Nazareth was God made man– that the second person of the Godhead became the ‘second man’ (1 Cor. 15:47), determining human destiny, the second representative head of the race, and that … Continue reading
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“‘Father’ is the Christian name for God” by J.I. Packer
“You sum up the whole of New Testament religion if you describe it as the knowledge of God as one’s holy Father. If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of … Continue reading
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“Depraved misrepresentation” by J.I. Packer
“The amount of misrepresentation to which Calvin’s theology has been subjected has been enough to prove his doctrine of total depravity several times over!” –J.I. Packer, The Collected Shorter Writings of J. I. Packer, Vol. 4 (Carlisle, U.K.: Paternoster, 1999), … Continue reading
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