Sublime

Do we love God and others enough to drop the pretense and just be ourselves? Only the gospel simultaneously provides the humility and the confidence the pastor needs to be his real self. The pastorate is no place for image-managing, for worrying about our own PR. In any event, if everybody likes you, something’s wrong, and if everybody hates you, s

Praise is the proper response to all of God’s actions.

While he’s on the altar, the Angel of the LORD (probably Jesus) hits the brakes.

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

God is the hero of the story.

Paul honored the Christ-centrality of the entire Word. Paul preached about marital relationships, child rearing, qualifications for church officers, stewardship, handling anger, on-the-job conduct, regard for government authorities, and many other practical concerns, and at the same time he wrote, “But we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block

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