Jul 25
2025
For Necessity is Laid Upon Me
What the good news of Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection created in Paul the Apostle was not primarily intellectual fascination or emotional enchantment, it was a sense of immense urgency.
Hebrews 13 suggests that churches ought to care for the joy—the happiness—of their pastor.
Why? Because a miserable pastor—a pastor who never knows the winds of encouragement in his sails but only the headwinds of opposition at his face—is rarely an effective one.