Sublime

But Noel tells me his job is simply a chance to be “a minister of common grace.”

unshakable grace of God “teaches us to say ‘No’ “to our passions (Titus 2:12) if we will only listen to it. It gives us new appetites and affections.

Joy, for Augustine, is characterized by a quietude that is the opposite of anxiety—the exhale of someone who has been holding her breath out of fear or worry or insecurity. It is the blissful rest of someone who realizes she no longer has to perform; she is loved. We find joy in the grace of God precisely because he is the one we don’t have to

Are there any ways in which your ministry disciples its stakeholders (financial supporters, staff, and materially poor people) to understand and practice the joy of sacrificial giving?

In his book Habits of Grace, David Mathis suggests there are three basic forms of spiritual disciplines: hearing God’s voice through the Bible, having God’s ear through prayer, and belonging to God’s body through Christian fellowship.