All of Life Is Worship

by | Jan 30, 2022 | A Pastor's Heart

Worship involves all of life. We worship when we desire or praise or surrender or obey or thank or serve or trust or rejoice or regret or love. Every one of these is an expression of worship because each of these indicates that something has value to us. In this...

What It Means To Be Saved

by | Jan 4, 2018 | A Pastor's Heart

I first wrote this column in May. I believe it’s important enough to rerun frequently. I hope you agree. “Pastoral work, in large part, deals with the difficulty everyone has in staying alert to the magnificence of salvation.” So says Eugene Peterson (Five Smooth...

How Does God Change His People?

by | Jan 8, 2017 | A Pastor's Heart

How does God change his people?  That’s a question to reflect on as you read the first eight books of the Bible this year: Genesis:  He changes us from bad lawyers like Adam and Eve, trying to shift the blame for the inexcusable to anyone besides themselves, or to God...

How Do People Change?

by | Aug 8, 2016 | A Pastor's Heart

I’m making reading recommendations in this column, and that comes in several forms Why read?  To grow. It seems that growth should be normal but “Biblically speaking, drift is always away” – Mike Bullmore.  We have to choose to grow.  Books are an opportunity to...