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Overlooked essentials of ministry. In the busyness of preaching, teaching, and overseeing church ministries, it’s easy to let the urgent displace the important. The immediate overwhelms the eternal. And pastors find themselves “running the church” but not “curing souls.” This book is a reminder of the essence of ministry. It offers fresh thoughts on the important but neglected art of spiritual...

a week, a year? Like Wendell Berry, am I willing to spend fifty years reclaiming this land? With these people? Christian spirituality means living in the mature wholeness of the gospel. It means taking all the elements of your life—children, spouse, job, weather, possessions, relationships—and experiencing them as an act of faith. God wants all the material of our lives. What does it mean to experience all the material of our lives as an act of faith? That I’m responsible for paying attention to
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