Too much work,– Mark Buchanan in The Rest of God
The expositor’s responsibility is to preach the gospel and trust God to work in human hearts.– Steven Lawson in Expositor (Spring 2019)
Someone whose task is to exhort others to a life of godliness in response to the gospel of grace should himself reflect that holiness.– Derek W. H. Thomas in Expositor (Spring 2018)
But all that hurry has gotten me no farther ahead. It’s actually set me back. It’s diminished me. My efforts to gain time have only lost it. Whole epochs of my existence have swept by me in a blur, with nary a cheap souvenir to remember them by. There are seasons and seasons of my life swallowed whole, buried in a black hole of forgetting…. Through all that haste, I thought I was making up time. It turns out I was throwing it away.
– Mark Buchanan in The Rest of God
Sometimes we are awed into silence in the presence of the Eternal.– J. Oswald Sanders in Enjoying Intimacy with God
Is Jesus Christ the dominant theme in your preaching? In the pulpit, do you magnify his sovereign lordship and saving work? In your ministry, do you continually point your listeners to him? Do you call people to commit their lives to Him?– Steven Lawson in The Kind of Preaching God Blesses
A Sabbath heart is restful even in the midst of unrest and upheaval. It is attentive to the presence of God and others even in the welter of much coming and going, rising and falling. It is still and knows God even when mountains fall into the sea.– Mark Buchanan in The Rest of God
Worship flows from love. Where love is meager, worship will be scant. Where love is deep, worship will overflow.– J. Oswald Sanders in Enjoying Intimacy with God
Simply put, all preachers are finite, and we must rely upon the infinite power of God in our pulpit ministries.– Steven Lawson in Expositor (Winter 2018)
Setting apart an entire day, one out of seven, for feasting and resting and worship and play is a gift and not a burden, and neglecting the gift too long will make your soul, like soil never left fallow, hard and dry and spent.– Mark Buchanan in The Rest of God
Brian J. Mikul 