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.
J.I. PackerTag: christianity sin
Whatever else in the Bible catches your eye, do not let it distract you from Him.
J.I. PackerTag: scripture theology doctrine christ focus
Constant endeavor to please God comes from love to God, called forth by wonder at the divine work of creation that surrounds us and by a greater wonder at the divine work of redemption that saves us.
J.I. PackerThere are two sorts of sick conciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.
J.I. PackerRegenerate people feel through their minds and think through thier feelings. They are self-aware in a God-concious and God-centered way that is beyond the understanding of those who do not not actually share this life quality .
J.I. PackerI need not torment myself with the fear that my faith may fail; as grace led me to faith in the first place, so grace will keep me believing to the end. Faith, both in its origin and continuance, is a gift of grace (Phil 1:29).
J.I. PackerThe Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration
J.I. PackerRepentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin to give as much as you know of yourself to as much as you know of your God, and as our knowledge grows at these three points so our practice of repentance has to be enlarged.
J.I. PackerTag: sin guilt self-knowledge repentance christ
We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.
J.I. PackerThose who know that glossolalia is not God’s path for them and those for whom it is a proven enrichment should neither try to impose their own way on others, nor judge others inferior for being different, nor stagger if someone in their camp transfers to the other, believing that God has led him or her to do so. Those who pray with tongues and those who pray without tongues do it to the Lord; they stand or fall to their own master, not their fellow-servants; and in the same sense that there is in Christ neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor free, male nor female, so in Christ there is neither glossolalist nor non-glossolalist.
J.I. PackerTag: spiritual-gifts glossolalia pentecostalism speaking-in-tongues
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