Dr. J. I. Packer recently passed into glory.

It was about a year ago that we began to get updates, indicating that his race on Earth

was nearing its end.

And I had a short list of topics I wanted to talk with him about over the telephone,

and he very kindly agreed to a series of three phone calls to answer various questions

that I had about the Puritans, and specifically his thoughts on a Puritan theologian named

Thomas Goodwin.

These were not formal interviews, just informal chats that we had.

However, I knew at the end of that third call, it would be the final time that I would speak

with him.

And I wanted to voice my gratitude to God for his life and ministry and to voice it to

him.

And the final minute of that last call I did record.

Here's how it ended.

The world of yours at the start is waiting for someone to focus on, oh, sorry, on

Goodwin as a life's work.

Yes.

All right.

That's Packer's sticking his neck out.

And now I'm going to say over to you.

Yeah.

Excellent.

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