For almost a year, I’ve been taking my kids swimming after school once a week. No, I didn’t enroll...
Tim Chester- Truth We Can Touch: How Baptism and Communion Shape Our Lives
by Dave Jenkins | January 20, 2020 | Equipping You in Grace, Featured | 0 Comments
On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave and Tim Chester talk about the purpose and nature of baptism and the Lord’s Supper, how Christian’s shared stories give them identity and shape the way they live, along with his new book, Truth We Can Touch: How Baptism and...
Monitor Your Motives
by James Forbis | January 20, 2020 | Featured, Philippians | 0 Comments
Philippians 1:15-18a, “Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will. The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel. The former proclaim Christ out of rivalry, not sincerely but thinking to afflict...
Pastor, Don’t Quit—Learn to Lament
by Mark Vroegop | January 20, 2020 | Featured, Gospel Hope for the Discouraged Pastor | 0 Comments
When Ministry Wears You Out Years ago, I remember hearing a seasoned pastor say, “Ministry would be a cake-walk if it wasn’t for people.” His tongue-in-cheek statement revealed what people know: pastoral ministry is hard. It isn’t long until the passionate calling...
If Jesus Wept, We Can Too
by Brittany Allen | January 20, 2020 | Featured, Suffering and the Christian | 0 Comments
Quickly after becoming a Christian, I developed my theology of suffering. I had all the answers to the hard questions of life (or so I thought) and thought surely those answers would be all I needed to face any kind of suffering headed my way. With Romans 8:28 written...
The Reason You Are Married
by John Piper | January 17, 2020 | Featured, The Gospel and the Christian Life | 0 Comments
Marriage for God’s Glory The ultimate thing to see in the Bible about marriage is that it exists for God’s glory. Most foundationally, marriage is the doing of God. Most ultimately, marriage is the display of God. It is designed by God to display his glory in a way...
#34: Faithful In Friendship[Sermon]
by Dave Jenkins | January 17, 2020 | 1 Samuel, Featured | 0 Comments
Join Dave as he continues our 1 Samuel series looking at 1 Samuel 23:15-29.
Letters To The Hearts Of Pastors’ Wives
Five Lessons in Perseverance for the Pastor’s Wife
by Brayden Tomlinson | November 26, 2018 | Featured, Letters To The Hearts Of Pastors' Wives | 1 Comment
After nearly a decade as a pastor’s wife, I have experienced the unique roller coaster ride that is pastoral ministry. I find much joy in being married to a pastor, but it is certainly not without unique challenges. I want to offer my fellow pastors’ wives five...
The Pastor’s Wife and the Congregation
by Sandra Peoples | November 19, 2018 | Featured, Letters To The Hearts Of Pastors' Wives | 0 Comments
In the early years after my son’s autism diagnosis, I had to learn many lessons. I had wanted to be the person everyone came to for help, but instead I was the person who needed it. And because I hadn’t let others in to see what life was really like for our family,...
Ministry Moves
by Carolyn Lacey | November 12, 2018 | Featured, Letters To The Hearts Of Pastors' Wives | 0 Comments
“How have you coped with moving your children from one ministry situation to another?” I’ve been asked this question a few times as ministry friends have started to think about moving on from one job to another. Most ministry families will move at least once, and for...
When You’re the Loneliest Member of Your Church
I’m not very good at friendship. I used to be the kind of friend who was as comfortable listening...
The Bottom Line
In my childhood, it was always an exciting annual moment. On that cold December night, sitting in...