Wonderful hospitality at Tarpeena Football Club after a funeral today. I saw cups like these in The Dish earlier this week, and the take me back to childhood memories. And that mug has every one of 43 beans in it.
Wonderful hospitality at Tarpeena Football Club after a funeral today. I saw cups like these in The Dish earlier this week, and the take me back to childhood memories. And that mug has every one of 43 beans in it.
Ray Ortlund offers counsel to younger ministers that their ministries will take a lifetime, and they can’t be short-tracked. I found his observations to be true, but that they are also applicable all through life. They aren’t just stages you go through, rather they are awarenesses you grow into, awarenesses that then accompany you in …
When faced with suffering, pastoral ministry does not try to fix the one who is suffering. Instead the one who suffers is taken seriously and offered a fellowship of faithful companionship to be with them in the darkness. This is not therapeutic, it is is ministry. Encouraging grief and suffering to be expressed in isolation, …
Here are some benefits of turning up to church early. (Roughly defined as more than 60-120 seconds before the appointed starting time, though in reality that’s actually arriving dead on time. Early would be sooner than that.) If you consider your attendance as ministry to others, rather than as something that you do, or something …
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