Dear Church Family,

It is Friday, so I will end the sharing of J. I. Packer quotes by sharing some with a variety of themes. Proverbs 25:11 can be used to describe the value of his Bible-informed words, “A word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.” Enjoy these golden insights.

“The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity—hope of pardon,
hope of peace with God, hope of glory—because at the Father’s will Jesus Christ became poor,
and was born in a stable, so that 30 years later he might hang on a cross.”

“Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal
preaching that will save Christ’s sheep.”

“In the New Testament, grace means God’s love in action toward people who merited the
opposite of love. Grace means God moving heaven and earth to save sinners who could not
lift a finger to save themselves. Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend
into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God and received into heaven.”

“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.”

“He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Savior,

has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity.”

“To know that nothing happens in God’s world apart from God’s will may
frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.”

“Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough
to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.”

“I believe that prayer is the measure of the man, spiritually, in a way that nothing else is.”

“The traveler through the Bible landscape misses his way as soon
as he loses sight of the hill called Calvary.”

With great hope,
Pastor Gillikin