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Book Club on "Morality" by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Last week, a dear friend who is an avid reader and one of the most thoughtful Christians I know, sent me a copy of a book he had just...
Glenn Packiam
Mar 14, 20214 min read
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An Unexpected Journey: Disruption and Invitation
Can I share a personal story with you? In late July-- the day after"Worship and the World to Come"released-- I went in to see a local ENT...
Glenn Packiam
Oct 19, 20205 min read
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What I Read In 2019 (And Why)
2019 was a good year for reading. I managed to read about 30 books this year, which may be a personal high, but there were several...
Glenn Packiam
Dec 23, 20195 min read
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‘How to Think’: A Summary
The goal of the book is to help us learn to interrogate our instincts and intuitions by examining the social, emotional, linguistic, and...
Glenn Packiam
Jan 19, 20186 min read
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Seven Books I Read and Loved in 2017
I feel like I read a lot of books this year. But it would be more accurate to say that I read parts of a lot of books this year. Graduate...
Glenn Packiam
Dec 27, 20172 min read
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Building the Currency of Trust, Pt. 2
This is a follow-up post to the previous one on the ‘Currency of Christian Leadership’. In that post, I made the case that the Old...
Glenn Packiam
Jan 19, 20174 min read
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The Communion Liturgy at New Life Downtown
Every once awhile, I am asked what our liturgy is at New Life Downtown. Our service flow (in general) can be found HERE. But the most...
Glenn Packiam
Sep 25, 20143 min read
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Proclaiming our Faith in Worship: How the Creed Tethers Us to Our Story
One of the main reasons we gather as the people of God is to remind ourselves of who God is, what He has done to make us His people, and...
Glenn Packiam
Apr 30, 20135 min read
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Overview of Ephesians in 15 Minutes by N. T. Wright
For those already familiar with theologian N. T. Wright, this talk will seem a bit elementary– and much shorter!– than his normal...
Glenn Packiam
Sep 27, 20101 min read
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What Makes A Worship Song Uniquely Christian?
[EDITOR’S NOTE: A few posts ago, I started the conversation about what our worship songs communicate about God and why that matters....
Glenn Packiam
Jun 1, 20103 min read
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Those Whose Best Life Isn’t Now
To mourn is to protest. It is to say that this should not be. We mourn when we lose a friend in a car accident. We mourn when we lose a...
Glenn Packiam
May 13, 20104 min read
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N. T. Wright: “God, the Tsunami, and 9/11: The New Problem of Evil”
What does our culture think of evil? Why do we pretend it doesn't exist until it hits us in the face? And what has God done about it? Is...
Glenn Packiam
Apr 9, 20101 min read
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Science, Miracles, and God
It is largely assumed that miracles are inherently unscientific. But let’s examine the premise for this belief. Science, it is said,...
Glenn Packiam
Jan 25, 20104 min read
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Toward a Better Theology of Healing, Pt. 2
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Read the previous post, “Toward a Better Theology of Healing, Pt. 1”, for introductory remarks and points 1-3.] 4. The...
Glenn Packiam
Jan 4, 20104 min read
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Toward a Better Theology of Healing, Pt. 1
Labels can be useful, but they can often be misleading. So telling you that I am a Charismatic may not be helpful—to you or to...
Glenn Packiam
Jan 4, 20104 min read
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Are Worship Pastors Becoming Extinct?
But it seems that some churches aren't looking for that. They would prefer a musician who can lead the "singing", oversee the tech team,...
Glenn Packiam
Oct 14, 20092 min read
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How Mercy Triumphed Over Judgment
[EDITOR'S NOTE: As a follow-up to my last post, here is a slightly adapted excerpt from Chapter 8 of "Secondhand Jesus". If you like, you...
Glenn Packiam
Sep 22, 20095 min read
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Is God Angry?
The long-standing view of God is that He is an angry school master, ready to bring the full weight of His wrath upon us at the slightest...
Glenn Packiam
Sep 17, 20095 min read
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