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Being Holy, Being Human is unavailable, but you can change that!

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde had it easy … … compared to the challenge facing pastors every day. There’s often a terrible tension between God’s call to holiness and our frail humanity. The Scriptures clearly state God’s call, and the Christian leader wants to obey. Parishioners expect their ministers to be models of godliness, too. Yet pastors who are honest are also painfully aware of their...

mind. To be a servant is to give over all rights to your life to God. Then there’s nothing left for anybody else to take away. I learned an important lesson in this area from taking care of my kids when they were little. My wife, Janie, would go to choir practice in the evening and leave me with them. Now, if my attitude was that the evening was still my own, then I’d try to watch television or read a book while I kept an eye on the kids. And the evening usually turned out to be a disaster. But if
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