![]() ![]() Wrestling with the vital personal question of how to grow in godliness, Packer found in these books answers to the question which seemed to have been forgotten. ![]() It was also while he was in Oxford that he was given the job of looking after some books which had been given to the Christian Union, and discovered the theologians of the sixteenth and seventeenth century, whose works had disappeared into obscurity. It was while he was there, at a meeting of the Christian Union, that he fully understood the gospel and became a Christian. ![]() Gifted with a fine mind and a love of books, Packer won a scholarship to Oxford to read classics. In God’s providence, he started to write. For his eleventh birthday he wanted a bike, but his parents bought him a typewriter. ![]() He has gone to be with Christ, but his writings remain – and they are some of the most helpful you could read.īorn in Gloucestershire in 1926, Packer suffered a head injury at the age of seven which meant he wasn’t able to join in normal sports. Last Saturday Dr Jim Packer died at the age of 93. He shall seduce with flattery those who violate the covenant, but the people who know their God shall stand firm and take action. ![]()
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