A Tribute to J.I. Packer – 1926-2020
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Journalist Sue Careless offers a retrospective on the life, witness and legacy of Dr. J.I. Packer.
Read moreCelebrating the Book of Common Prayer since 1986
Journalist Sue Careless offers a retrospective on the life, witness and legacy of Dr. J.I. Packer.
Read moreThe Red. Dr. David Curry reflects on the late J.I. Packer’s solid faith, deep learning, wide-ranging influence, enormous legacy of writings, and unswerving support of the Book of Common Prayer throughout his life, and his greatly appreciated contributions to the PBSC.
Read moreIt is not enough to talk the talk, you must walk the walk. “Walk in the Spirit,” we are told by Paul two Sundays in a row, in readings from Galatians…
Read moreSo Paul wants us to be clear of these two things: that our conversion restores us to our God-given life and identities, our individual places in His kingdom, so that, as the subjects of that kingdom, we may be the ministers of its peace to one and other…
Read moreThe Revd. Dr. J.I. Packer was a staunch supporter of the BCP, and served as a vice-chairman of the PBSC for many years. He was one of the giants of the Evangelical and Anglican world, like the California Redwoods…
Read moreThe Society hopes that this mobile app will encourage Christians throughout Canada to take up the discipline of regularly praying the Offices during this “Covidtide”, as well as throughout the next liturgical year and beyond.
Read moreOur readings today are about Christian morality, about Christian living, which means walking in the Spirit as we follow Jesus Christ. That walk will take us to the needy and we will recognize a neighbourhood which includes all, especially the needy and the enemy.
Read moreIn our wretchedness Christ comes to minister His gifts of healing and redemption, and restores us to new life at His own expense…
Read moreThe lessons for these middle weeks of the Trinity season teach us how we may receive, and how we are reformed and renewed by the gift of our redemption. This follows in an orderly way from the first weeks of Trinitytide, where we came to know more clearly the impediments to our faith, and the ways we must be converted, in order that we might find ourselves prepared to receive fully the gift that God offers in Christ.
Read moreIn the course of our growth in faith, we come to find that salvation is not only a matter of how the “sin which so easily besets us” has been overcome in the humility of our Lord’s Passion; salvation is also our direct experience of Jesus meeting us in our immediate and personal need and brokenness…
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