8.2 Pastoral Prayer

LORD, We know that you are God, and that there is no other. You declare the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done. And we know that you desire us to pray to you, casting our anxieties on you, and that you work through means like prayer....

A few thoughts going into sabbatical

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you. | Hebrews 13:17 Back in November, I wrote a blog...
10 takeaways from Job

10 takeaways from Job

The book of Job can be a difficult to book to read through: it is long, dark, repetitious, and contains a great deal of verbal processing. All of the things that make it difficult to read, make it fascinating to study through. Over the last 3 months, as the world has...

To mask or not to mask

Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another, for that indeed is what you are doing to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to do this more and...

Hope does not put us to shame

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in...

Ambassadors for Christ

All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation....