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Why Sending isn’t a Consolation Prize
Hannah Hagarty explains why sending people to the mission field is much more than a mere consolation prize for those who can’t go.
The Suffering You Hate Produces the Resilience You Need
Dave Harvey: “If you asked me about the greatest surprise of thirty-nine years in leadership, I’d say this: I never knew my strengths could be so dangerous—and my weaknesses so glorious. I never expected that God would use dismantling experiences to forge endurance.”
The Loneliness Of Being Rejected
“Loneliness doesn’t wait for an invitation. Sometimes, it doesn’t even wait for you to be alone. Quietly, it can gnaw on you, even in a crowd. It could be in a thousand stony eyes that look through you, in feet that automatically move around you, or in heads that nod polite acknowledgement and move on quickly because your existence didn’t matter enough to engage their conscious thought. The solitary loneliness of the wilderness would be kinder. Fresher. But the worst kind of loneliness of all is the loneliness of rejection.”
Work Hard. Rest Hard. Trust God.
This is good counsel: Work hard, rest hard, trust God.
On Knowing Your Responsibilities
Alan Noble provides wisdom on knowing your responsibilities.
Expand Your Family at Church
“In Mark 10:29–30, Jesus promises that anyone who leaves behind ‘house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands’ for his sake and the gospel will receive two rewards, present and future: a hundredfold family now and, in the age to come, eternal life. It’s a promise that Jesus fulfills through his people, the body of Christ.”
Flashback: Fears and Fleeting Faith
The disciples had the right idea, of course. In their troubles they fled to Jesus. In their uncertainty they cried out to their master. But they came to him in fear and doubt, not in faith.
Time misspent is not time lived but time lost.
—Thomas Watson
