Video on J.I. Packer's Upcoming Book

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For Christians, weakness should be a way of life. Yet most of us try desperately to be sufficient on our own, and we resent our limitations and our needs.

In the following video, J.I. Packer, renowned theologian and author of the forthcoming Weakness is the Way, reflects on his experience of weakness, having been hit by a bread truck as a child and now facing the realities of aging.

Book Review: Taking God Seriously by J.I. Packer

There are essentials to the Christian faith that believers must know to grasp what we truly believe. J.I. Packer, in his latest book, Taking God Seriously, explains those essentials. Packer's hope is not to give another book full of facts for Christians to know, also for discipling them to take God's business seriously.

There are eight chapters in this book that deals with essentials that every Christian is called to take seriously. Faith is the first chapter and Packer discusses what faith is. The following chapters talk about doctrine, Christian unity, repentance, the church, the Holy Spirit, baptism, and the Lord's Supper. Packer deals with these issues with biblical truth and how it applies to us in the 21st century. He also does it in a way so that new believers can be discipled as they read.

This is another fine piece of literature written by J.I. Packer and every believer, new and seasoned, should have in their library. This is also good from small group discussions.

Thanks Crossway for letting me review this book.

Don't Study God, You Will Stumble

Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives. As it would be cruel to an Amazonian tribesman to fly him to London, put him down without explanation in Trafalgar Square and leave him, as one who knew nothing of English or England, to fend for himself, so we are cruel to ourselves if we try to live in the world without knowing about the God whose world it is and who runs it...Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you. This way you can waste your life and lose your soul.

J.I. Packer, Knowing God