Sublime

Worship isn’t for sycophants who seek to buy off a narcissistic God with constant affirmation; it’s for people who seek to live the truth of their nature as made by God, in God, and for God – who is Love.

we pray with a generous heart to find God in all things, to love and serve God and others in concrete ways and with great enthusiasm.

So our coming of age leads us to a true recognition of our situation before God. God would have us know that we must live as men who manage our lives without Him. The God who is with us is the God who forsakes us

For reflection: Genesis 4:16 To walk out of His will is to walk into nowhere. —from Perelandra

Jesus Christ alone is the hope, treasure, joy, and purpose of pastoral ministry. Not church growth, not church planting, not church success, not church business, not church programs, not church activities, not church popularity. Let everything be a means to this end: the treasuring of Christ and the enjoying of his glory.

We keep our gaze fixed always on God’s mercy.

the lowest kind of goods and we thereby turn away from the better and higher: from you yourself, O Lord our God, and your truth and your law.

We want to love and serve God and others more.