If you believe, as I do, that the goal of ministry is the all-satisfying gladness of your people’s hearts in the glory of Christ, or in all that God is for them in Christ, then it will follow that your joy in Christ is an essential foundation for that ministry. If that’s true, that your joy in Christ is essential for leading others to an all-satisfying joy in Christ, then it follows that a hunger for Christ, a hunger for God, is an essential foundation for Christian ministry that’s effective and faithful.
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish,...
Growing in love is a very conscious choice. It’s like you’ve taken a boiling pot and let it simmer. There is a constancy to...
Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms. For the LORD is the great God, and...
