Glenn Packiam

Pastor//Author//Speaker//Practical Theologian//Songwriter

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    What Creative People Never Tell You About Creativity
    Glenn Packiam
    • Jul 1, 2009
    • 3 min

    What Creative People Never Tell You About Creativity

    But here are three things that every artist knows but is reluctant to admit…three reasons why the confusion of creativity with authentici...
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    What I Wish I Knew About Worship Leading…10 Years Ago
    Glenn Packiam
    • Jun 4, 2009
    • 4 min

    What I Wish I Knew About Worship Leading…10 Years Ago

    But I was clueless. I had no idea the way I would be drawn aside by own ego, fooled by opportunities and so-called fame. I was not prepar...
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    Church Planters Beware: What Prometheus Would Tell Pastors
    Glenn Packiam
    • May 25, 2009
    • 4 min

    Church Planters Beware: What Prometheus Would Tell Pastors

    Three conversations made me think of church planters this past week. This first was an unexpected encounter with an old friend who has be...
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    The Seduction of Leaders
    Glenn Packiam
    • May 15, 2009
    • 4 min

    The Seduction of Leaders

    Today's ministry leaders face an enormous amount of pressure from all sides. Many times, there is pressure from our superiors to produce ...
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    There Are No Dead Churches
    Glenn Packiam
    • May 8, 2009
    • 3 min

    There Are No Dead Churches

    It is too easy to leave a church because it is "dead". It sounds much more spiritual than admitting some sort of consumer impulse in us t...
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    What A Pastoral Sabbatical Means to Me
    Glenn Packiam
    • Mar 14, 2009
    • 3 min

    What A Pastoral Sabbatical Means to Me

    Tomorrow begins my first pastoral sabbatical. Every pastor at New Life who has been on staff for seven years or more is being given a one...
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    Glenn Packiam
    • Feb 19, 2009
    • 1 min

    How Liturgy Can Save Your Soul

    EDITOR'S NOTE: Some of you know that I am a regular contributor to http://www.neueministry.com. As strange as the name is, and as unclear...
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    Glenn Packiam
    • Jan 23, 2009
    • 2 min

    Practicing the Wrong Presence

    Ask most charismatic church-goers what the focus of their worship service is and they will invariably say something about the presence of...
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    Glenn Packiam
    • Jan 15, 2009
    • 1 min

    Secondhand Jesus

    Hi friends, This is a video explaining the core message of my new book, "Secondhand Jesus: Trading Rumors of God for a Firsthand Faith." ...
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    Absent at Advent: How We Miss God’s Arrival
    Glenn Packiam
    • Dec 11, 2008
    • 3 min

    Absent at Advent: How We Miss God’s Arrival

    No doubt you’ve heard sermons on the unlikely cast of characters who found themselves in the thick of God’s arrival on earth. Lowly she...
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