Archive for June 2020

You may be reading this because you love your pastor and want to bless him, but you aren’t sure how. This is a great starting place. Remember: he is a person, a heart and soul, who values relationships, and is affected by words and actions (silence, too). While he is “up there,” he is also right here next to you, running the race of the Christian life––and your encouragement may be God’s providence to spur him onward, to give him grace for the next leg of the race. 

I tried to grow a garden once. It didn’t go well. I had great aspirations when I planted it. I pictured a well-watered and neatly weeded patch of earth that would yield a steady supply of summer vegetables. I planted, watered, and weeded really well—at first. But then came the heat. The bugs. The weeds. And it was taking such a long time for the sprouts to grow! Eventually, I gave up. It seemed easier to simply buy some vegetables at the grocery store.