Glenn Packiam - The Intentional Year: Simple Rhythms for Finding Freedom, Peace, and Purpose

This book helped me rethink our familys plans for next week and for next year. If you feel like your stress, busyness, and distraction are sapping healthy rhythms from your life, Glenn and Holly Packiam are welcome and practical guides. You wont feel like you are reading about something ideal but unattainable. This is a book for real people, and the steps shown here can lead us to better lives.

RUSSELL MOORE, public theologian at Christianity Today and director of Christianity Todays Public Theology Project

The best part of this book is that a wife and husband are literally on the same page, in pursuit of God-honoring intentionality in their personal, marriage, family, and ministry lives. I love how Glenn and Holly weave their personal story into their desire for abundantly intentional years together. A richly spiritual, warmly relational, and vibrantly practical resource.

STEPHEN A. MACCHIA, founder and president of Leadership Transformations, director of the Pierce Center for Disciple-Building at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and author of The Discerning Life

Glenn and Holly Packiam have crafted a book thats about so much more than just setting goals theyre showing us Gods invitation to abundance through living with intentionality toward Jesus. What does it mean to create rhythms of renewal, rest, and refreshment in this hurried day and age? The Packiams answer that question beautifully with pastoral guidance and practical wisdom.

AUBREY SAMPSON, pastor, speaker, and author of Known

The breakneck pace of life in the modern world is leaving many of us exhausted and at a loss. In The Intentional Year, Glenn and Holly Packiam invite us to take a deep breath and settle ourselves amid the mad rush of a culture moving with far too much speed and far too little intention. Pastorally warm, theologically rich, and practically accessible, this book is a wonderful guide down a new path, toward the freedom, peace, and purpose every human truly longs for.

JAY Y. KIM, pastor of Westgate Church and author of Analog Christian

What a beautiful and life-giving book from Glenn and Holly. Together they have cultivated a life of purpose and significance through their intentional practices, and now theyve invited us to make those our own. Our intentions embody our values. Whether youre an expert at intentions or are just starting down the path, Glenn and Holly have invited us into rhythms that are both simple and profound.

TRICIA LOTT WILLIFORD, author of This Book Is for You and You Can Do This

Our world is full of chaos and disorder, but our daily lives can be different. Glenn and Holly have lived intentional lives, full of healthy habits and rhythms, and now we get to glean from their years of learning. You will find strength, wisdom, and encouragement on each of these pages.

BRADY BOYD, senior pastor of New Life Church and author of Addicted to Busy

We live in a busy world in which too many of us dont take the time to stop and reflect on what is happening in our lives, our families, and our world. This often results in stress, anxiety, and burnout. One of the ways we can guard our souls from spiritual burnout is by rediscovering the ancient rhythms of grace that are deeply rooted in the historic Christian faith. In The Intentional Year, Glenn and Holly Packiam invite us to slow down, take an inventory of our lives, and cultivate daily rhythms of prayer, rest, renewal, and work. This book provides a road map for how we can develop spiritual rhythms that have the power to transform us from the inside out and make us increasingly like Jesus Christ.

DR. WINFIELD BEVINS, author of Liturgical Mission

When my wife, Rochelle, and I started taking three days at the end of every year to reflect, celebrate, and plan, it took our relationship with each other and with God to another level. Even at that, The Intentional Year takes it another step forward. Glenn and Holly unpack how to use and leverage your and your partners gifts and callings to bring light and goodness to a world immersed in darkness. Every couple needs that. You cant imagine how you will be blessed.

SEAN ISAAC PALMER, author of Speaking by the Numbers

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To our parents, Bill and Roxanne and David and Karmen, for all the big and small ways you intentionally love us.