“It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life… And he lay down and slept under a broom tree. And behold, an angel touched him and said to him, ‘Arise and eat.’” —1 Kings 19:4–5 Many of us know the shock of finding ourselves in a valley when we expected a mountaintop. Fatigue sets … Continue reading When You Find Yourself in a Desert Place
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The Power of the Word of God in a Young Pastor’s Life
J.I. Packer, as a young pastor, found himself “marginalized, isolated and required to work on unfulfilling and flawed agendas, in a manner that made him think of the Israelites having to make bricks for Pharaoh.” He claims to have lived “like Moses in Midian, with frustration in [his] heart, wondering what God could possibly be … Continue reading The Power of the Word of God in a Young Pastor’s Life
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