Today let's pray for JI Packer. JI Packer was ordained in 1953, 55 years ago. He is one of the most important theologians of this century. As an Oxford student, JI Packer first met C. S. Lewis, Lewis’ teachings would influence his life. JI Packer was general editor for the English Standard Version of the bible, a revision of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible.A writer and frequent lecturer, Dr. Packer is best known for the book, "Knowing God". He is a frequent contributor and executive editor of Christianity Today. Christianity Today’s founder is Billy Graham. The magazine's presence on the Internet began in October of 1994 when it became one of the top 10 content providers on all of AOL. Then, in 1996, their website was launched. It was originally named ChristianityOnline.com. Today it, and its sister publications, reach well over 2 million readers in traditional paperbound form, and more than 10 million in their internet form.
Let us pray today for JI Packer and give great thanks for his many years serving the Lord in fufilling Jesus Christ's call to spread the Good News! I was priviledged to hear JI Packer in Dallas for the 2008 Winter Conference. He is a humble and vastly knowledgable christian.
Romans 7:1-12 (English Standard Version)
7:1 Or do you not know, brothers —for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? 2 For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. 3 Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.
4 Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. 5 For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. 6 But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.
7 What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” 8 But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead. 9 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. 10 The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me. 11 For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. 12 So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
Hear the Shofar Blast. The ram's horn sounds called Tekiah, reminds on Rosh Hashanah that God is creator, Father to the entire universe.
Shevarim, three short, wail-like blasts calling deep to our hearts. A cry out to God from the depths of our soul; in this moment, when our souls stand before the Almighty without any barriers, that we can truly spiritually yearn for daily prayer to connect, to grow, to achieve.
Teruah, nine quick blasts in rapid succession, calling us to awake from spiritual slumber.
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