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J. I. Packer Biography

James Innell Packer (born 22 July 1926), usually cited as J. I. Packer, is a British-born Canadian Christian theologian in the low-church Anglican and Calvinist 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.

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The gift of sonship to God becomes ours not through being born, but through being born again.

Born, Born Again, Gift, God, Sonship

Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.

Confidence, Guarantees That, Impressions, Long, Prayer, Stronger

We dishonor God if we proclaim a Savior who satisfies and then go around discontent

Discontent, Dishonor, Proclaim, Savior

Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire.

Church, Empires, Face, Faced, Ignorance, Turf

God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.

Fallen, Fallen World, Happy, Keep, Make, World

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.

Contentment, Differences, Energy, Knowing, Serve

Only when you know how to die can you know how to live.

Die, Dies, Know, Know How, Knows, Live

Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.

Bores, Christ, Doctrinal, Hypocrite, Save, Sheep

Read two old books for every new one.

Book, Books, Old, Old Books, Read, Two

The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God

Christian, Christlikeness, Fruit, Humility, Root, Roots

Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is standing or falling. By this he meant that when this doctrine is understood, believed, and preached, as it was in New-Testament times, the church stands in the grace of God and is alive; but where it is neglected, overlaid, or denied,. . . the church falls from grace and its life drains away, leaving it in a state of darkness and death.

Darkness, Fall, Falling, Grace, Overlaid, State

. . . love and pity for hell's occupants will not enter our hearts.

Heart, Hell, Love, Occupants, Pity

Im amazed at the amount of time people spend on the Internet.

People, Internet, Amazed, Amount, Time

We meet God through entering into a relationship both of dependance on Jesus as our Saviour and Friend and of discipleship to Him as our Lord and Master.

Entering, Jesus, Lord, Master, Relationship, Saviour

The most universally awesome experience that mankind knows is to stand alone on a clear night and look at the stars. It was God who first set the stars in space; He is their Maker and Master. . . such are His power and His majesty.

Clear, Faith, Night, Power, Set, Stars

There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.

Irreligious, Nothing, Religion, Self, Self Absorbed

Living becomes an awesome business when you realize that you spend every moment of your life in the sight and company of an omniscient, omnipresent Creator.

Company, Living, Moment, Moments, Realizing, Sight

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.

Author, Father, Holy, Scripture, Son

God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.

Exercise, Love, Love Is, Merit, Sinners

The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.

Canon, Church, Force, Gravity, Newton

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