Sublime

Since Christ is our model for personal ministry, we too want to understand people so that we can serve him in their lives. We too must be committed to entering their worlds. We can begin by taking the time to ask good questions and listen well. Our hope is that others would seek us out and share more of their true struggles, so that they may find,

The Younger showed how to start and end all your thoughts with God. God was the centering frame for the Younger. But more than just a frame, God was an agent. All thought about the world, society, and church was inextricably God-talk. It was God-talk because the Younger so deeply held—and indeed experienced—that God acts in the world.

I am convinced that good theology leads to holiness of life, and holiness of life leads to a fruitful pastoral life of ministry and evangelization.

And God said: 'Go-take the mother's soul, and learn three truths: Learn What dwells in man, What is not given to man, and What men live by. When thou has learnt these things, thou shalt return to heaven.'

The reality is that, as Anderson is able to reveal from that fabled other side, there is no promised land until the Promised Land of the real heaven. We always think things will finally be . . . well, final when we get “there,” wherever “there” is for us. But there is no there. There’s only here. Because once you get there, there becomes here, and

God always has a special place in His heart for pastors. He identifies with every local church pastor by describing Himself as a shepherd (one of them) on numerous occasions in the Bible.

Too often we envision “successful ministry”—this vision may look different from person to person, church to church—and we pour our energies and affections into seeing that vision become a reality, assuming that once we finally “arrive,” things will be better, easier, and finally and ultimately fulfilling. This is, functionally, idolatry. It is a cr

I sense that I hear from God when I read the Bible and get specific advice from godly people.