Carl Trueman expounds the virtue of a wife who does not believe one iota of “their husbands’ own propaganda about themselves.” From the post: Indeed, when asked by a student spouse the other week how she kept up with reading all that I read so that she could support me in my work, my wife’s …

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From Craig Barnes’ ‘The Pastor As Minor Poet’ (Eerdmans, 2009). As a minor poet, the pastor doesn’t simply tell people to be satisfied with their limited lives but instead helps them to find the joy and sacred purposes to these limits. Some of the things that are missing from the garden are good and certainly …

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A word of encouragement for pastors, and by extension all Christians, from Justin Buzzard reminding us of the famous interaction between John Wesley and Peter Bohler: Most of us live life feeling our way towards an action, rather than acting our way towards a feeling. We have it backwards. Instead, we ought to act our …

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