Caring for Aging Parents
Every pastor’s parents are getting older and closer to the day when they will stand before the Lord.
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Every pastor’s parents are getting older and closer to the day when they will stand before the Lord.
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Praying the point of the text means the congregation is hearing the passage not only through my voice as the preacher but also through the voices of other godly saints.
Part of leadership is modeling how to trust God in suffering.
Scripture teaches us how to use our time together—how to “do church”—and each element of our services is designed by God to disciple you and to give you opportunities to disciple others in your church family.
Our children should hear us recounting God’s incredible work among his people far more frequently than bemoaning their faults.
Gathering with God’s people provides a rest that physical inactivity cannot provide. It’s a rest that reinvigorates your soul, not just your body.
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.
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.