Glenn Packiam

2020—What a year it’s been, huh? The trouble is, we have not assurance that 2021 will be much better. Yet here we are waiting. Waiting...

Why do we care about injustice? Because God’s new creation has begun in us.

How do pastors decide what to say about current events and social issues? As the story goes, both Karl Barth and Billy Graham said...

What do we do with the pain of the world? We enter in it and groan. That is what the Son of God did. And that is what the Spirit of God...

Over the past few months, friends have told me that they are reading “Blessed Broken Given” with their small group at church or with a...

It is all the rage to talk about how oppressive Christianity is and has always been. It’s even more troubling to see some Christians...

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...

What does it mean to be prophetic? The word is thrown around a lot, but depending on which circles you run in, it means something quite...

Earlier this year, Integrity Music release a 5-day devotional that I had written to accompany a wonderful new instrumental album called...

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...

Where do leaders in churches and Christian ministries gain their authority to lead? It is tempting to simply say, ‘From God!’ There is,...

For the past 6 or 7 years, Holly and I have done a prayer and planning retreat, usually at the end of the calendar year, or sometimes...

What are the repeated critiques you hear about modern worship? It is so noisy. And why is every bridge a monosyllabic chant? (eg....

[NOTE: This is a follow-up piece to my initial response to the reactions to Hillsong’s decision to decline making a public statement on...

So, Hillsong declined to publicly declare a position on ‘LGBT issues’. And the internet was awash with opinions. Some shook their heads...

Today is All Saints’ Day. I used to never think of it that way. It was just the day that Starbucks brings out their red cups. Besides, I,...

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...

In Part 1 of this blog series, we said that in order to answer the question of “who the Church is”, we needed to first ask who Jesus is,...

What is “Church“? Who is Church for? The lost? The disciple? What are Sundays for? Many pastors jump right to the Great Commission and...

It’s been almost 500 years since Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Church. Yet, there are many...