I’m looking forward to reading all of Zack Eswine’s The Imperfect Pastor. Here he writes about the way that aspiring to the work of a pastor is a long-haul commitment that cannot succumb to the temptations of haste or instancy: …imagine loving God and others through the desolations of life. Desolation cannot easily endure an …
From Rhythms Of Grace, by Mike Cosper: Theologian Jeremy Begbie calls the gathering an “echo from the future,” a foretaste of something we;ll see come to fruition when Christ returns and all things are made new, a not-yet life that we taste in part already. Today, we gather in exile, in the world but not …
The Imperfect Pastor is a rewrite of Zack Eswine’s earlier book Sensing Jesus. It seems unusual to rewrite something that is only a few years old, let alone to then reduce the length by half and introduce about one third new content. That being written, Sensing Jesus was such an extraordinarily helpful insight into pastoral …
Corporate worship: a divine work, a saving work of God. It is the Holy Spirit who purifies our worship by his continual work of sanctification. As the Spirit purifies the worshippers, the worship is made pure. When we worship, having our minds enlightened by the Spirit, our lives cleansed by the Spirit, our wills moved …
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