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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...

high. People don’t think about the many days of mundane living and travel and even tedium that all of us, including the people in the Bible, experience. The miracles of Jesus, for example, were spread over three years of public ministry, yet they’re discussed within a few short pages of the Bible. Thus, it’s easy to get the impression that he was doing something incredible every day, but that’s probably not the case. We need to remember that faithfulness is not measured primarily by our highs but
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