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When we see God’s work in us as the model for our work for him, three practical principles emerge: 1. God’s redemptive activity always takes place within relationships. 2. God’s first step in changing us is to draw us into relationship with him. 3. Our relationships are essential to the work God is completing in us and in others.
Paul David Tripp • Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands
Covenantal living is intergenerational living—it is to know oneself as the descendant of ancestors and the ancestor of descendants, all sharing a dream of a world in which human dignity is real and the presence of God is manifest (more on this dream in chapter 12).
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
As Western culture increases its speed in the race away from Christendom, as hostility to orthodox and evangelical Christianity increases and becomes increasingly legislated, we will eventually see a separation of the men from the boys. Which pastors will cave to worldly wisdom in fear for their own livelihoods and comfort, and which will fear God,
... See moreJared C. Wilson , Mike Ayers (Foreword) • The Pastor's Justification
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
... See moreJared C. Wilson , Mike Ayers (Foreword) • The Pastor's Justification
Herein is the justification for the sin-prone pastor (by which I mean “pastor”): because of Christ’s perfect work on your behalf, your failure, your daily anxiety, your unwillingness, your stress, your sin, your brokenness, your ineptitude, your ignorance, your awfulness, your regrets, your pride, and your arrogance are no match for the deep and ab
... See moreJared C. Wilson , Mike Ayers (Foreword) • The Pastor's Justification
The gift God has for us as stewards of our relationship with him is the precious gift of intimacy.
R. Scott Rodin • The Steward Leader: Transforming People, Organizations and Communities
Sin has entered the world and distorted how men and women relate to one another. Men transgress by turning their responsibility to lead into a privilege so that they tyrannically abuse their authority or abdicate their responsibility and descend into abject passivity. Women try to subvert male leadership by contesting their leadership or by respond
... See moreJames R. Beck, Craig L. Blomberg (Editor), Craig S. Keener (Contributor), Linda L. Belleville (Contr... • Two Views on Women in Ministry
It appears that finally, she had taken her heart’s deepest hopes off of her husband and her children, and had put them on the Lord. Jacob and Laban had stolen Leah’s life, but when she gave her heart finally to the Lord, she got her life back.
Timothy Keller • Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
