Sublime

The scale is enormous, the stakes are high. Instead of spiritually dressing up the idols we know people want, let’s give them what they need—God as all in all, the filling of the Spirit, the exaltation of the risen Lord. “See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God” (1 John 3:1). That should be the chi

God can give and God can take away. Will we trust the increase or curse the decrease, or will we say, “Blessed be the name of the LORD?” The way we are typically programmed to measure the success of our ministries sets us up for hollow victory and desperate failure. But this is not to say we should never do any measuring. It is only to say that wha

Andy Stanley, Johnny Carson, Howard Hendricks, Ronald Reagan, Billy Graham,

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Les Stobbe, Max Lucado, Charlie Wetzel, Les Parrott, Bob Buford,

1. For the preacher: “How do I preach Christ himself?” and 2) For the hearer: “How do I get into Christ?”22

Psalm 7 is a lament.