Glenn Packiam
Glenn Packiam is one of the associate senior pastors at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the lead pastor of New Life Downtown, a congregation of New Life Church. Glenn earned a Doctorate in Theology and Ministry from Durham University in the UK. He also holds BA in Theological/Historical Studies and Masters in Management from Oral Roberts University, and a Graduate Certificate in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary. Glenn and his wife, Holly, have four children.
Articles for Worship & Creative
Should Expressive Worship Be Physical?
It’s understandable that people sometimes wonder if expressive worship leaders are simply imitating entertainment culture in asking people to respond.
Articles for Worship & Creative
C.S. Lewis: Art With a Message
What Lewis is proposing is actually more serious — and more difficult — than simply trying to create art with a message.
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What Does the Visual Layout of Our Churches Say About Worship?
Now the visual layout of most of our modern worship environments feature a drumset or a stack of amplifiers quite prominently. Nothing "wrong" with this. But let's think for a moment about what it says
Worship & Creative Blogs
Evangelicals and the Book of Common Prayer
The Book of Common Prayer - how can you get any more evangelical than that?
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Glenn Packiam: Is Emotional Worship Wrong?
The question is not whether or not worship ought to be emotional. Of course it does; and worship—as a way of meeting God—has always involved emotion. The question is whether emotional worship is appropriate or not.
Articles for Outreach & Missions
Glenn Packiam: Why Christians Avoid the Phrase Supernatural God
Christians believe in a Triune God who created the cosmos, and who stands in some way outside of it, or beyond it. But is that a supernatural God?
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Glenn Packiam: Prophetic Worship Leaders
The role of prophet worship leaders is not simply to be descriptive (saying what God is like) or prescriptive (calling people to respond to Him); we are also to be imaginitive: we awaken people to see something new, something that has not yet come to be, so that hope fills their hearts.
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Glenn Packiam: Need a Song Idea for Good Friday or Easter?
Glenn Packiam gives a few song ideas for Good Friday and Easter Sunday. There are so many great worship songs about the cross and forgiveness and the sacrifice Christ made for us. Discover more song ideas for Good Friday and Easter.
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