Desiring God has been posting some video interviews with J. I. Packer. As usual, he offers plenty of great insight. And I thought this video was particularly good for those of us interested in writing.
The video is less than ten minutes long, so it’s worth watching all the way through. But here are Packer’s three main pieces of advice:
1. Go deep in your grasp of God, and his will, and his ways, and the spirit of worship. Because you must constantly be expressing those things in every bit of writing that you do.
2. Understand, as preachers also have to understand, that it’s as important that you communicate with people as it is that you set before them truth and wisdom from the word of God.
3. Don’t attempt to be a writer unless you have got things to say which you feel must be put on paper an...
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