![]() It was at Oxford that Packer first heard lectures from C. “Although Packer was a serious student pursuing a classics degree, the heartbeat of his life at Oxford was spiritual. ![]() ![]() Packer committed his life to Christ on October 22, 1944, while attending an evangelistic service sponsored by the campus InterVarsity chapter. “Much more important than Packer’s accident was his conversion to Christ, which happened within two weeks of his matriculation as an undergraduate at Oxford University. Nevertheless, Packer was uncomplaining and accepting of what providence brought into his life from childhood on. He carried a visible dent in the side of his head for the rest of his life. “Packer’s life-changing childhood experience came at the age of seven when he was chased out of the schoolyard by a bully onto the busy London Road in Gloucester, where he was struck by a bread van and sustained a serious head injury. Packer was born in a village outside of Gloucester, England, on July 22, 1926. I asked him several years ago if he wanted to stay on our Board of Reference, and he replied with a hearty yes and a sterling commendation of the work on MOVIEGUIDE® and the Christian Film & Television Commission(R).” And, he was always available to talk by phone. ![]() He helped us to think through several important issues. He was incredibly humble and easy to talk with, while providing solid biblical insights. “It was always a blessing to discuss important biblical issue with Prof. Packer was also a member of Movieguide®’s Board of Reference. To read and digest it is an experience no discerning reader is likely to forget.‘Knowing God’ Author J.I. Joni Eareckson Tada Has the rare ability to deal with profound and basic spiritual truths in a practical and highly readable way. ![]() John Stott Dr Packer's volume says it simply, says it best. The lazy and faint-hearted should be warned about this timeless work-God is magnified, the sinner is humbled, and the saint encouraged. Author Elizabeth Eliot wrote that amid the lofty content Packer "puts the hay where the sheep can reach it-plainly shows us ordinary folks what it means to know God." Having rescued us from the individual hunches of our ultra-tolerant theological age, Packer points the reader to the true character of God with his theological competence and compassionate heart. What began as a number of consecutive articles angled for "honest, no-nonsense readers who were fed up with facile Christian verbiage" in 1973, Knowing God has become a contemporary classic by creating "small studies out of great subjects." Each chapter is so specific in focus (covering topics such as the trinity, election, God's wrath, and God's sovereignty), that each succeeding chapter's theology seems to rival the next, until one's mind is so expanded that one's entire view of God has changed. Knowing God aims to redirect our attention to the simple, deep truth that to know God is to love His Word. Packer, however, Christians have become enchanted by modern skepticism and have joined the "gigantic conspiracy of misdirection" by failing to put first things first. A lifelong pursuit of knowing God should embody the Christian's existence. ![]()
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