Sublime

For a wise articulation of this point, see Michael Horton, Ordinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2014).

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

our God is a God of detail.

I want to supplement Willard’s emphasis on the individual practice of the spiritual disciplines with what might be a counterintuitive thesis in our “millennial” moment: that the most potent, charged, transformative site of the Spirit’s work is found in the most unlikely of places—the church!

We have to be careful about building theology from the Psalms unless it can be backed up elsewhere in Scripture.

Psalm 16 feels more accessible after we’ve walked closely with David.

Psalm 8, David marvels at God’s creation and the fact that man is given dominion over it.

their leaders are supposed to make decisions by consulting with God.