Sublime

For the descendants of Abraham, kids are the sign of God’s blessing,

In God’s economy, everyone benefits by everyone contributing.

God is the hero of the story.

Do we love God and others enough to drop the pretense and just be ourselves? Only the gospel simultaneously provides the humility and the confidence the pastor needs to be his real self. The pastorate is no place for image-managing, for worrying about our own PR. In any event, if everybody likes you, something’s wrong, and if everybody hates you, s

The justified pastor—the man justified by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone to God’s glory alone, who happens to be a pastor—when taken on his good day or bad day, ministry high or ministry low, will be received with gladness and welcome. Clothed in the righteousness of him in whom you trust, how can you be turned away? You will not b

Discipline is the act of any loving Father whose child is walking in rebellion.

a life of doing good for others is actually the most exciting life, for God calls us to find ways of doing good with a sense of creativity, competence, and adventure.

God’s family is made up of people with new hearts, not similar DNA.

God never requires something of us that He keeps us in the dark about.