If not for the Lord being on your side, you’d be completely without hope. And yet, the Lord is on your side. For whatever he brings against you, more still does he give to your defense.
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The ultimate basis of your hope of making it to the end secure in Christ is not your own resolve, seriousness, or moral character but the finished work of Christ and all of God’s promises in him.
When the days are long and the nights are short, God is not absent.
When Peter refers to us as a royal priesthood, he’s speaking corporately. The church is a royal priesthood.
My call at church was not to soldier on as if nothing was wrong. It was to pastor the church in my weakness so that Christ’s grace would be magnified.
Your use of AI should be something you are proud of—something you’d be glad for the world to see. If it’s something you want to hide, it is probably not glorifying to God.
The good news for terrible fathers is not that the past can be undone, but that it can be redeemed.
My attempt to run harder had me running on fumes. Being a single man didn’t change the fact that I am just a man.
Next time you get criticized, even in an ungodly manner, ask yourself if the substance of the criticism is true or if there is something you need to learn from it.
Christ’s expectations of a pastor’s wife are identical to his will for every other woman in the assembly.
Jesus isn’t like the credit card company that sets up shop on a college campus trying to get students to sign on the dotted line without reading the fine print. No, Jesus forces potential converts to stare at the fine print before signing on.
Over time and through many tears, he brought me to the point where I could honestly say that if I never pastored another church or preached another sermon, Christ is enough.
In my experience, the temptation to bail out of ministry hasn’t come from one major trial that seemed impossible to overcome. Instead, it’s been the feeling of death by a thousand cuts that threatens my joy in this work.
