It was while he was there, at a meeting of the Christian Union, that he fully understood the gospel and became a Christian. Gifted with a fine mind and a love of books, Packer won a scholarship to Oxford to read classics. In God’s providence, he started to write.
For his eleventh birthday he wanted a bike, but his parents bought him a typewriter. He has gone to be with Christ, but his writings remain – and they are some of the most helpful you could read.īorn in Gloucestershire in 1926, Packer suffered a head injury at the age of seven which meant he wasn’t able to join in normal sports. Last Saturday Dr Jim Packer died at the age of 93. The lazy and faint-hearted should be warned about this timeless work–God is magnified, the sinner is humbled, and the saint encouraged.He shall seduce with flattery those who violate the covenant, but the people who know their God shall stand firm and take action.
AuthorĮlizabeth Eliot wrote that amid the lofty content Packer “puts the hay where the sheep can reach it–plainly shows us ordinary folks what it means to know God.” Having rescued us from the individual hunches of our ultra-tolerant theological age, Packer points the reader to the true character of God with his theological competence and compassionate heart. What began as a number of consecutive articles angled for “honest, no-nonsense readers who were fed up with facile Christian verbiage” in 1973, Knowing God has become a contemporary classic by creating “small studies out of great subjects.” Each chapter is so specific in focus (covering topics such as the trinity, election, God’s wrath, and God’s sovereignty), that each succeeding chapter’s theology seems to rival the next, until one’s mind is so expanded that one’s entire view of God has changed. Knowing God aims to redirect our attention to the simple, deep truth that to know God is to love His Word. Packer, however, Christians have become enchanted by modern skepticism and have joined the “gigantic conspiracy of misdirection” by failing to put first things first. KNOWING GOD is one of the most significant and popular Christian books of our time and has deepened the faith and understanding of millions of people around the world.Ī lifelong pursuit of knowing God should embody the Christian’s existence. It continues to sell in tens of thousands to Christians around the world. Packer’s classic book KNOWING GOD has revealed to well over a million readers the wonder, glory and the joy of knowing God. How to order Download Catalogue Abbreviationsĭescription J I PACKER For more than 30 years, J.
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