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 …
“Sometimes the clearest evidence that God has not deserted you is not that you are successfully past your trial but that you are still on your feet in the middle of it.” Dale Ralph Davis, 1 Samuel, 2010, p. 200
“Sometimes the Father may box us in, place us in a situation in which, one by one, all our secondary helps and supports are taken from us, in order that, defenseless, we may lean on His mercy alone – prayer. Once we see this, we will no longer regard prayer as a pious cop-out but …
…delight is incomplete until it is expressed. Is is frustrating to have discovered a new author and not to be able to tell anyone how good he is; to come suddenly at the turn of the road, upon some mountain valley of unexpected grandeur and then to have to keep silent because the people with …
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