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.
By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up...
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a...
Paul's contributions to our understanding of the powers of evil is to sum them up in the phrase 'principalities and powers'. For him they...
