I don’t even have to be there to ask them. This is for all of my Mount Gambier farm friends.
I don’t even have to be there to ask them. This is for all of my Mount Gambier farm friends.
A wonderfully constructive and pastoral exhortation from Terry Johnson, who encourages us to remember the four central aspects of a Christian identity: sons, saints, servants, sinners; and how our identity can become dysfunctional when any of these emphasised at the expense of the others. Surely as we attend corporate Christian worship each facet of identity …
Our suffering and sadness, well navigated, will cause us to look inward, but our gaze should not, must not remain there. Instead, acknowledging the emptiness, loss and confusion within, and convicted of our inability to endure suffering, we look to Jesus, who came and endured the true suffering of which ours is but the echo. …
I saved this post by David Murray a couple of days ago. It flows on from my last post. It’s not meant to be exhaustive and there are some helpful additions in the comment stream at Murray’s blog. In a church of 100 people, 20 people will likely experience an episode of depression at some …