Tag: encouragement

  • Getting Back to Our Roots: Before Appointing New Pastors in 1 Timothy 1

    Getting Back to Our Roots: Before Appointing New Pastors in 1 Timothy 1

    Pastoral ministry is unique in this world. Many men are called to pastoral ministry. Because of the season my church family is in, I want to spend some time looking with fresh eyes at the pastoral letters in their context. In the First Century, things didn’t work like they do now. While we can see…

  • Encouragement During This Time of Transition

    Encouragement During This Time of Transition

    I want to take a few moments and write a note of encouragement directly to my church family at GABC since the church is in a time of transition. Times of transition are interesting because no one really knows what’s next. No one knows what to expect in the coming months, let alone next week,…

  • It’s Been A While, But I’m Finally in a Healthy Frame of Mind

    It’s Been A While, But I’m Finally in a Healthy Frame of Mind

    Hurt is hard. I realized in the last month that it has been more than a year since I have done any serious writing. I had given up on ministry and started my own business because, frankly, I was done being hurt. At the beginning of 2023, a friend of mine (a couple, actually) told…

  • Christ Alone, Not Only Christ

    Christ Alone, Not Only Christ

    Salvation is in Christ alone. There is no arguing that fact, and why would you want to. Each one who is in Christ is saved by grace alone through faith alone. Our natures are set against God from birth. We are in darkness. We must each be born again to even see the kingdom of…

  • Daily Devotional: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

    Daily Devotional: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

    Paul does not want the Thessalonians to be uninformed concerning those who are asleep, or their brothers and sisters in the faith who have died. Whatever Paul is about to write is about a particular type of rapture, but not a future, secret rapture of all the saints all at once prior to a greater…

  • Daily Devotional: 1 Thessalonians 2:1-12

    Daily Devotional: 1 Thessalonians 2:1-12

    Paul, and those with him when he visited Thessalonica, shared the gospel free of monetary charge in the midst of great oppression while they were there. The Thessalonian church is now made up of people who believed despite oppression from both Jews and gentiles in their city. Paul is greatly encouraged and praises the church. …