Glenn Packiam

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...

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...

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...

The goal of the book is to help us learn to interrogate our instincts and intuitions by examining the social, emotional, linguistic, and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

For those already familiar with theologian N. T. Wright, this talk will seem a bit elementary– and much shorter!– than his normal...

[EDITOR’S NOTE: A few posts ago, I started the conversation about what our worship songs communicate about God and why that matters....

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...

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...

It is largely assumed that miracles are inherently unscientific. But let’s examine the premise for this belief. Science, it is said,...

[EDITOR’S NOTE: Read the previous post, “Toward a Better Theology of Healing, Pt. 1”, for introductory remarks and points 1-3.] 4. The...

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...

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,...

[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...

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...