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...
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Glenn Packiam
- Oct 19, 2020
- 5 min
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...
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Glenn Packiam
- Dec 23, 2019
- 5 min
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...
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Glenn Packiam
- Jan 19, 2018
- 6 min
‘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...
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Glenn Packiam
- Dec 27, 2017
- 2 min
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...
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Glenn Packiam
- Jan 19, 2017
- 4 min
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...
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Glenn Packiam
- Sep 25, 2014
- 3 min
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...
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Glenn Packiam
- Apr 30, 2013
- 5 min
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...
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Glenn Packiam
- Sep 27, 2010
- 1 min
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...
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Glenn Packiam
- Jun 1, 2010
- 3 min
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....
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Glenn Packiam
- May 13, 2010
- 4 min
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...
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Glenn Packiam
- Apr 9, 2010
- 1 min
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...
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Glenn Packiam
- Jan 25, 2010
- 4 min
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,...
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Glenn Packiam
- Jan 4, 2010
- 4 min
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...
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Glenn Packiam
- Jan 4, 2010
- 4 min
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...
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Glenn Packiam
- Oct 14, 2009
- 2 min
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,...
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Glenn Packiam
- Sep 22, 2009
- 5 min
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...
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Glenn Packiam
- Sep 17, 2009
- 5 min
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...
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