Great Stories by Haven Today

#70: J.I. Packer On How Weakness Makes Us Strong


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While Charles Morris is traveling in Poland to capture the stories unfolding out of the Ukraine crisis, we wanted to go back to a podcast we aired last year that has become one of our most listened to podcasts. Next week, Charles will be back on schedule with a brand new podcast with many of the stories coming out of Central and Eastern Europe. 
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Today, strength is applauded while weakness is seen as a defect. For the Christian, this should be the other way around.
Having collided with a bread truck as a child and receiving brain surgery that left him with an indented skull, the late J.I. Packer (Knowing God) is well acquainted with weakness and frailty. In this conversation he tells how this shaped his life and led him to depend on Christ for strength. Throughout, he debunks the myth of self-sufficiency, laying out a path for us to follow from discouragement to freedom in light of our all-sufficient God.
J.I. Packer went home to be with the Lord in 2020. This conversation was originally recorded for the Haven Today radio broadcast in 2013. The message of Christ’s power being made perfect in our weakness is just as true today as it was then.
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