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There's a joy pastors don't talk about. Not the joy of a packed house. Not the baptism Sunday with visitors in every row, or the revival
There's a joy pastors don't talk about. Not the joy of a packed house. Not the baptism Sunday with visitors in every row, or the revival
There's a pain pastors don't talk about. It's not the pain of open conflict. It's not the phone call at midnight, or
He comes for your identity. And if you get it backwards, you will spend your entire Christian life winning small battles while losing the main one. Most believers think the
There is a difference between a man who makes it and a man who meets Him well. John doesn't write 1 John 2:28 to the lost. He
They always show up with more — more knowledge, more experience, more spiritual depth than you ever got from that old narrow-minded church you used to sit under. And John'
Sit with that for a minute — because it explains nearly every departure you've ever watched and couldn't make sense of. When someone walks out the door
The devil doesn't need your Bible. So instead, he fills your hands with good things — Christian things, even — until you are doing everything for God except sitting with
Every believer has the same Book. The same promises. The same indwelling Holy Ghost. But not every Christian has the same fruit. That gap — between what God handed every saint
Write it down. Whatever is consuming you right now — the neighbor situation, the thing somebody said, the problem that feels like it needs solving this minute — write it down. Put
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