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Sinclair B. Ferguson • The Whole Christ
We live in a time—call it a secular age—when society has devalued the pastor and yet we nevertheless yearn for ministry.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
comparison is the thief of joy, but here it seems that comparison is also the thief of faith.
Tara-Leigh Cobble • The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible
Each Sunday I awake with a longing to gather around song, Scripture, and sacrament. Most of those mornings my wife and I walk to the nursing home to celebrate the Eucharist with a faithful but forgotten few.
This year my wife and I want to plant a church in Chicagoland, but many weeks I am left wondering, Where do we fit in?
Recently, I was lamenting
christianitytoday.com • The Rise of the ‘Umms’
God, Greed, and the (Prosperity) Gospel: How Truth Overwhelms a Life Built on Lies
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If you are a creature of habit whose loves have been deformed by disordered secular liturgies, then the best gift God could give you is Spirit-infused practices that will reform and retrain your loves.
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
Augustine might make Christianity plausible again for those who’ve been burned—who suspect that the “Christianity” they’ve seen is just a cover for power plays and self-interest, or a tired moralism that seems angry all the time, or a version of middle-class comfort too often confused with the so-called American Dream.