“Being heard is to close to being loved that for the average person, they are indistinguishable.” -David Ausburger

Today there is only one person whose actions you can control, whose emotions you can manage and whose destiny you can help determine--it is you. Don't undervalue this great responsibility today.

“The assumption of spirituality is that always God is doing something before I know it. So the task is not to get God to do something I think needs to be done, but to become aware of what God is doing so that I can respond to it and participate and take delight in it.” -Peterson

When someone “blows their top” over something insignificant, it is often because they have endured something greater that remains unspoken.

10 pastoral lessons I’ve (re)learned since 2020.

A passion to preach without a burden to study is a desire to perform. —@HBCharlesJr

‘In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.’” -Max De Pree"

“What is it that always heralds the dawn of a Reformation or of a Revival? It is renewed preaching. Not only a new interest in preaching but a new kind of preaching.” Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“God is always doing 10,000 things in your life, and you may be aware of three of them.” -Piper

"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important." - C. S. Lewis

"I am so bad that He had to die. I am so loved that He was glad to die." - Tim Keller

“We don’t know how bad we are until we try to be good.” -Paul Miller

One of the most selfish things we do as people is refusing to address our own issues. By denying we have them, we force everyone around us have to deal with them through our actions.

There will never be an evangelism strategy, marketing ploy, or attractional gimmick that can ever replace everyday Christians seeing themselves as missionaries planted by God right where they live, work and play. Attracting religious consumers ≠ multiplying missionaries.

Not every Bible reading plan works for everyone. In fact, it is often good to change things up. Here is a collection of plans from which to choose. https://t.co/z7vm2Sc9k3

Preachers are like cover bands. Whatever personal texture we might add, the songs are always someone else’s. Our sermons, then, are only worth listening to insofar as they draw out the genius of the original artist.

Join us for Christmas Eve Service. December 24 @ 6:00 p.m.

This article written by Luther Oconer is a great encouragement for those longing to see gospel renewal in the church.

The reason so many of us stay stuck is that we choose what is familiar over what is effective.

“There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.” -Catherine Booth, co-founder of Salvation Army