Sublime

in the rhythms of worship, the Spirit inscribes in us the character that makes us a certain kind of person.

However the Lord has gifted you, whatever tools you have at your disposal, steward them toward the impression of awe, the air of redemption, a foretaste of glory. Do not write in such a way as to make your name great, but because his name is. You don’t have to write explicitly Christian material for this to be true. You simply have to write as an

Boston held that these words stress what was being obscured in a moribund confessional “orthodoxy,” in which evangelistic rigor mortis had already set.

However, in the busyness of our modern lives, we spend little time with Jesus and wonder why we have so little power. We wonder why the church lacks power to heal broken marriages, lives wrecked by depression and alcoholism and hearts addicted to pornography. Our lives are frantic, busy and powerless because we do not take time to “stand before the

Liturgy is the way we learn to “put on” Christ (Col. 3:12–16).

Live the Psalms by Sitting with the Hurting

This is the pastoral posture we are exhorted to in 1 Peter 5:3: “not domineering.” There are lots of ways pastors become domineering over those in their charge, but the first step is usually to remove oneself more and more from them. When the local church body stops being “the flock of God that is among you,” it becomes much easier to treat them as

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