Thanks! Have appreciated Schein, B & D, Northouse, and Collins. Will have to check out Fee’s commentary and the playlist. Thanks again for the help!

Andy, what are your go-to leadership books for pastors?

A beautiful tribute to Andrew and his Calling. Thank you for sharing!

“For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
‭‭(Lk ‬18‬:‭10‬-‭14‬)

Anyone can humble themselves and find mercy. A lesson with profound hope, especially for sinners like me.

“But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other.

“The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’

The Bible doesn’t need to describe every detail of heaven because telling us heaven will come to a perfected earth tells us everything.

We will learn and create and adventure and commune and laugh in the presence of God, to the glory of God, under green leaves and blue skies. That is heaven.

God is not making all news things. He is making “all things new” (Revelation 21:5). Things of earth that we know and love will be there, but renewed, as they were meant to be, beautiful and free, in the presence of God.

If heaven will be on earth, then we know a lot about heaven because we know a lot about earth. We know about earth as earthlings, we know about a good earth from Genesis 1-2, and we know about a perfected, glorified earth from Revelation 21.

“…in America everyone reads his own newspaper, and the newspapers, majestic in size, love everything up-to-date, share everything (sensational stories, interviews, everything public), from the most banal to the most important; they keep the people informed.”