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Living together as family in the church
“Children are ordinarily so full of their own needs and wants that they look at a brother of sister not as an ally but as a competitor. If there is only one pork chop on the plate and three of us who want it, I will look at my brother and sister not as delightful dinner companions but as difficult…
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Nobody knows the trouble…
This is not a call to embrace suffering, either. It’s not to dwell in the fatalism. It is to immerse the suffering in God.
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The Hazardous Work of Being Christian
This isn’t one of those, “They didn’t say ‘Merry Christmas’ to me!” complaints.
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Pastoring
We are called to hard work that is not glamorous most of the time.
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The slow walk to maturity — ABSORB the Word
Don’t just “read” the Word. Don’t just “study” the Word. As believers, we are invited into a level of engagement with the Scriptures that doesn’t have any other parallel. Why settle for so much less?
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When in doubt… is God still there?
We look for assurance. We look for certainty. What happens when we don’t always get it?
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The slow process of maturity — the lack of a “road map”
We tend to like Christianity in a “paint by numbers” kit. Jesus isn’t good at that.
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At our pastoral best
You are at your pastoral best when you are not noticed. — Eugene Peterson (@PetersonDaily) June 20, 2015
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The church is a mess
“The churches of Revelation show us that churches are not Victorian parlors where everything is always picked up and ready for guests. They are messy family rooms. Entering a person’s house unexpectedly, we are sometimes met with a barrage of apologies. St. John does not apologize. Things are out of order, to be sure, but that is what happens to…
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We do this, we do this as a CHURCH
Powerful thoughts from Eugene Peterson in Reverse Thunder: The Revelation of John and Praying the Imagination. : The gospel is never for individuals but always for a people. Sin fragments us, separates us, and sentences us to solitary confinement. Gospel restores us, unites us, and sets us in community. The life of faith revealed and nurtured in the biblical narratives is…
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