Last Monday I was sharing my heart about resting in Christ while laboring to see the Gospel transform others’ lives. I was so encouraged to read your many responses, and to be reminded that God is truly at work in each of our lives–finishing the work He has begun. It’s fitting, I suppose for these thoughts to be fieldnotes, observations that dominate my thinking at the start of a week, as Sunday is the day that my spouse’s weeklong wrestling with the Word of God culminates in the proclamation of that truth. Sometimes it’s a slam dunk; sometimes it’s not. And while it may appear that he has “one shot” each week at delivering the message, the work of God upon the flock is not a once-a-week engagement. Sunday is not “showtime,” a performance, or the sales-pitch. In fact, my sweet Preacher likes to think of the finish line each […]