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In Search of Awe and Wonder

August 21, 2017 · Christian Living · 0

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“The incarnation took all that properly belongs

“The incarnation took all that properly belongs to our humanity and delivered it back to us, redeemed. All of our inclinations and appetites and capacities and yearnings are purified and gathered up and glorified by Christ. He did not come to thin out human life; He came to set it free. All the dancing and feasting and processing and singing and building and sculpting and baking and merrymaking that belong to us, and that were stolen away into the service of false gods, are returned to us in the gospel.”

Thomas Howard

I used to think ministry kids should be spared fro

I used to think ministry kids should be spared from coming early to set up and staying late for clean up. I used to promise I’d get a babysitter for Sunday mornings. Maybe someday I still will, but for now I will cherish seeing her run through the halls like it’s her second home, dance to worship practice, and beeline for the animal crackers in the nursery. She’s being raised here. And I pray it raises her in an affection for God’s people, that she always feel this at-home among God’s people. 🧡

Add it to the list of things I used to be above.

Add it to the list of things I used to be above.

With Bible school and seminary degrees I was once convinced that I should really only do the “shiny” stuff of ministry. I thought that the nursery or the kitchen clean up or taking out the church trash or cleaning the bathrooms was better left to someone else. After all, I thought, not everyone could parse the Hebrew.

Do you want to know one thing a church plant very often DOES NOT NEED? Someone parsing Hebrew. Do you know what it needs every single week? Clean bathrooms.

Friends, I say this with so much compassion: don’t miss out the way I did. It was my loss to miss out on years of ordinary ministry service. When you don’t step in to serve in your local church, yes the church misses out on your service — but more than that, YOU miss out on the joy of serving God and his people! It’s a deep, deep gift.

(Repost from last month. Still true.)

I’m just here to say that never — not once, no

I’m just here to say that never — not once, not one time — have I regretted following God’s call, even into hard places.

Our 17-month old daughter often has to be at churc

Our 17-month old daughter often has to be at church from 8am to 1pm on Sundays. It’s part of church planting for us, but a challenge for her most Sundays.

Most Sundays she cries going to nursery. Most of the time it’s normal separation, but sometimes it’s utter exhaustion. God resets my ministry priorities through her. Though it meant I left no fewer than 8 ministry tasks undone, yesterday God gave me the privilege of snuggling her while listening to my husband preach. I’m so thankful my friend captured it. 🧡

A midnight prayer for our brothers and sisters in

A midnight prayer for our brothers and sisters in hiding. May the Lord do it.

Psalm 91:1-10

My Refuge and My Fortress

[1] He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
[2] I will say to the LORD, “My refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust.”

[3] For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler
and from the deadly pestilence.
[4] He will cover you with his pinions,
and under his wings you will find refuge;
his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.
[5] You will not fear the terror of the night,
nor the arrow that flies by day,
[6] nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness,
nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.

[7] A thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
but it will not come near you.
[8] You will only look with your eyes
and see the recompense of the wicked.

[9] Because you have made the LORD your dwelling place—
the Most High, who is my refuge—
[10] no evil shall be allowed to befall you,
no plague come near your tent.

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