Those who recognize their weaknesses are made strong. Those who recognize their inadequacies are made adequate. Those who realize their helplessness receive divine help. This is the sovereign design and infinite genius of God. Finite men must preach in the power that only an infinite God can provide.
– Steven Lawson in The Kind of Preaching God Blesses
Those who recognize their weaknesses are made strong. Those who recognize their inadequacies are made adequate. Those who realize their helplessness receive divine help. This is the sovereign design and infinite genius of God. Finite men must preach in the power that only an infinite God can provide.
– Steven Lawson in The Kind of Preaching God Blesses
We are here and there and everywhere. We are distracted. We are preoccupied. We can’t focus on the task in front of us. We don’t follow through. We don’t keep our commitments. We are so busy with a million pursuits that we don’t even notice the most important things slipping away.
– Kevin DeYoung in Crazy Busy
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
Brian J. Mikul 