Glenn Packiam redefines the word lucky in the context of Jesus' beatitudes in Luke's Gospel. "Lucky" uncovers how the poor, hungry, mourning and persecuted are blessed because the Kingdom of heaven--its fullness, comfort, and reward--is theirs in spite of their condition. This is Christ's announcement: the Kingdom of God has come to unlikely people. Like the people Jesus addressed, we are called lucky not "because" of our pain or brokenness but because "in spite" of it, we have been invited into the Kingdom. The trajectory of our lives have been altered. What's more, we now have a part in...
Glenn Packiam redefines the word lucky in the context of Jesus' beatitudes in Luke's Gospel. "Lucky" uncovers how the poor, hungry, mourning and pe...
Christians sing because we are people of hope. Yet our hope is unlike other kinds of hope. We are not optimists; nor are we escapists. Christian hope is uniquely shaped by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead and by the promise of our own future resurrection. How is that hope both expressed and experienced in contemporary worship? In this volume in the Dynamics of Christian Worship series, pastor, theologian, and songwriter Glenn Packiam explores what Christians sing about when they sing about hope and what kind of hope they experience when they worship together. Through his...
Christians sing because we are people of hope. Yet our hope is unlike other kinds of hope. We are not optimists; nor are we escapists. Christian hope...
