Glenn PackiamMar 14, 20214 minBook Club on "Morality" by Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksLast 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 PackiamOct 19, 20205 minAn Unexpected Journey: Disruption and InvitationCan 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 PackiamDec 23, 20195 minWhat 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 PackiamJan 19, 20186 min‘How to Think’: A SummaryThe goal of the book is to help us learn to interrogate our instincts and intuitions by examining the social, emotional, linguistic, and...
Glenn PackiamDec 27, 20172 minSeven Books I Read and Loved in 2017I 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 PackiamJan 19, 20174 minBuilding the Currency of Trust, Pt. 2This 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 PackiamSep 25, 20143 minThe Communion Liturgy at New Life DowntownEvery 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 PackiamApr 30, 20135 minProclaiming our Faith in Worship: How the Creed Tethers Us to Our StoryOne 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 PackiamSep 27, 20101 minOverview of Ephesians in 15 Minutes by N. T. WrightFor those already familiar with theologian N. T. Wright, this talk will seem a bit elementary– and much shorter!– than his normal...
Glenn PackiamJun 1, 20103 minWhat 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 PackiamMay 13, 20104 minThose Whose Best Life Isn’t NowTo 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 PackiamApr 9, 20101 minN. 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 PackiamJan 25, 20104 minScience, Miracles, and GodIt is largely assumed that miracles are inherently unscientific. But let’s examine the premise for this belief. Science, it is said,...
Glenn PackiamJan 4, 20104 minToward 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 PackiamJan 4, 20104 minToward a Better Theology of Healing, Pt. 1Labels 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 PackiamOct 14, 20092 minAre 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 PackiamSep 22, 20095 minHow 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 PackiamSep 17, 20095 minIs 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...