Secondhand Jesus
God wants you to know Him, deeply and personally. But there are no shortcuts to God.
So often we too easily settle for someone else’s descriptions, the CliffsNotes from another’s spiritual journey. We are content to let “God experts” do the heavy lifting and then give us the bottom line. And after enough times through the grapevine, the truth about God deteriorates until crumbs and rumors are all that remain.
But when life derails, when things don’t go as we planned, our thinview of God is challenged. In those critical moments, we can choose to walkaway from God … or let our questions lead us home. When you decide to wrestle with God, to engage Him for yourself, you—like Jacob and Job and David and Glenn—will see rumors die and revelation come alive.
It’s time to hear the magnificent divine invitation. It’s time to take God up on His offer and embrace the mystery and majesty of knowing Him for yourself.
So often we too easily settle for someone else’s descriptions, the CliffsNotes from another’s spiritual journey. We are content to let “God experts” do the heavy lifting and then give us the bottom line. And after enough times through the grapevine, the truth about God deteriorates until crumbs and rumors are all that remain.
But when life derails, when things don’t go as we planned, our thinview of God is challenged. In those critical moments, we can choose to walkaway from God … or let our questions lead us home. When you decide to wrestle with God, to engage Him for yourself, you—like Jacob and Job and David and Glenn—will see rumors die and revelation come alive.
It’s time to hear the magnificent divine invitation. It’s time to take God up on His offer and embrace the mystery and majesty of knowing Him for yourself.
Chapter 1 Thursday
Chapter 2 Rumors
Chapter 3 Genie
Chapter 4 Gone
Chapter 5 Many
Chapter 2 Rumors
Chapter 3 Genie
Chapter 4 Gone
Chapter 5 Many
Chapter 6 Subversive
Chapter 7 Audacity
Chapter 8 Holy
Chapter 9 Carts
Chapter 10 Contact
Chapter 11 Invitation
Chapter 12 Joy
"Secondhand Jesus explodes with passion and desperation, because we are all in need of the real Jesus-- the One Who saves, and in Whom we can place our hope."
Worship Leader Magazine,
Digging through the ruins of a ‘house built on sand,’ Glenn Packiam lays bare the shameless lies of a way of religion, very popular these days in America, without foundations in Jesus or Scripture. But it is far more than exposé. This is an honest, personal, detailed story of a Christian leader refusing cynicism and embracing forgiveness and hope.
Eugene H. Peterson, Translator of "The Message" and Professor Emeritus of Spiritual Theology, Regent College, Vancouver, B.C. Canada
This is a rich work of biblical excavation…Glenn mines the many stories of the Ark of the Covenant…[to] become indictments and correctives to our own self-serving theologies…But this book is not a tirade. It’s no self-righteous harangue against modern innovations followed by a stern call to return to that “old-time” religion. It’s more a confession and a plea. It’s a bone-deep admission of personal failure, a heartfelt repentance for that failure, and soul-stirring call to put aside childish things and to seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness.
Mark Buchanan, pastor and author of Your God is Too Safe and The Rest of God
(from the Foreword)
(from the Foreword)
Glenn Packiam is not only a gifted songwriter and worship leader penning songs that capture the heart of our generation, but he is also a gifted writer whose textured voice needs to be heard. Secondhand Jesus is a much-needed challenge for every believer to embrace knowing God like they never have before.
Margaret Feinberg, popular speaker and author of Scouting the Divine
2-Disc Teaching DVD Set for Secondhand Jesus
Based on the book, Secondhand Jesus: Trading Rumors of God for a Firsthand Faith, this brand new 2-DVD set features four talks that challenge the rumors we believe about God and inspire a journey toward firsthand faith.
Too often we look for shortcuts in our relationship with God. But when life derails, we find that our view of God is nothing more than a patchwork of rumors and secondhand information, too thin to sustain us in our moment of crisis.
Disc 1
Talk #1- Genie: God Will Give Me What I Want
(Runtime: 49:07)
Talk #2- Many: God Can Be Added to a List of Loyalties
(Runtime: 47:10)
Disc 2
Talk #3- Audacity: God is Pleased With My Goodness
(Runtime: 52:34)
Talk #4- Carts: God Prefers Specialists
(Runtime: 33:28)
Butterfly in Brazil
You want to be part of something extraordinary--something bigger than yourself. But how? Everyday life can seem so ordinary and small. Is it possible to live in a way that matters? Can we really change the world? According to the butterfly effect, small things can make a big impact. One life--your life--can make a world of difference. You can create lasting change when you begin small, act where you are, and stay faithful over the long haul. Glenn Packiam uses time-tested principles from Scripture and history to form a roadmap for changing your world, forever. Butterfly in Brazil is an empowering call for action--right here and right now.
Chapter 1 Beginnings
Chapter 2 Storing Up Greatness
Chapter 3 History in the Making
Chapter 4 Shooting the Moon
Chapter 5 All the Small Things
Chapter 6 Big Dreams
Chapter 7 YourSpace
Chapter 8 Farewell to Fireworks
Chapter 2 Storing Up Greatness
Chapter 3 History in the Making
Chapter 4 Shooting the Moon
Chapter 5 All the Small Things
Chapter 6 Big Dreams
Chapter 7 YourSpace
Chapter 8 Farewell to Fireworks
Chapter 9 Staying the Course
Chapter 10 Mono-Purpose Halls
Chapter 11 Multiplied Efforts
Chapter 12 Love and War
Chapter 13 The Cost of Change
Chapter 14 Testing Your Wings