Sublime

Jesus came “to serve” and “to give” — and those two verbs should define your life on earth, too.

You have a choice to make. You will be either a world-class Christian or a worldly Christian.1

God the Son is called: the Anointed One (Acts 4:26), the Lamb of God (John 1:29), the Christ of God (Luke 9:20), the only begotten Son (John 3:16), Alpha and Omega (Rev. 1:8), the Son of Man (John 5:27), the Author and Perfecter of our faith (Heb.12:2), King of kings, Lord of lords (Rev.

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

Start looking around at your personal mission field and pray, “God, who have you put in my life for me to tell about Jesus?”

The right response to the survey of this wearying battlefield is not timidity or a pity party, but clinging more desperately to the gospel of Jesus Christ. The justification for the sin-prone pastor—by which I mean simply the pastor—is the same as it is for every sinner. There is no Justification 2.0 for ministers of the gospel.