I love references to Revelation 21:1, the sea-less future. Here Scotty Smith weaves together a prayer of praise and trust as a result of meditating on that picture. As Smith points out, a sea-less future does not mean we’ll never get our toes wet in the renewed creation. Then I saw a new heaven and …
I preached from Zechariah 1:7-17 last Sunday. One of the applications flowed from the prayer that the Angel of the Lord prayed on behalf of the people: when praying to God, pray for that which He has already promised in His Word. Illustrating that, I mentioned that for some people prayer was motivated by a …
When matters turn to other people’s ministries, do your impressions usually focus on what is positive about their service, or does your attention more naturally fall on the negatives? J.D. Greear: I’ve got a friend (who is not “in the ministry”) who uses that phrase to refer to people who find little to applaud in …
Brian Croft writes about the best and most balanced means by which a wife can support her husband in his pastoral work. Regardless the temperament of a pastor and the type of church he serves, most of us would agree that every church will have a wide spectrum of affection for their pastor. Every church to …
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