…send your roots out toward his stream of living water in all seasons, that you may yield your fruit your season.
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A list of places I’ve been published.
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My wife is literally good at everything she does, and that includes photography!
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I’ve been reading The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby (Quote List in the coming weeks). Though the book came out last year, I’m only getting to it now. While I knew I would agree with the thesis the book argues (captured in the subtitle), I’m…
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Olive June Boga was born Wednesday October 31, 2018. She was no bigger than the distance between two of my knuckles, but she had beautiful eyes, a heart, fingers, and toes. She was, and remains, our daughter. We cared for her as best we could, and we love her with our whole hearts. Olive June was miscarried at eight weeks.
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website, I wrote about how the Bible actually uses the word hope, and how the true hope we have in Jesus Christ should compel us to live changed lives.
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Though vocational pastoral ministry is a job like any other in many ways, it’s also distinctly different. I reflected on this difference recently over at 9Marks.
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Recently, we realized that many of the men and women attending the Bible studies at our church can go through a guide and come prepared to discuss the text with their groups. However, when they are on their own–Bible in one hand and coffee in the other–they aren’t so sure what they should do. To…
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website, I wrote about how the Bible actually uses the word hope, and how the true hope we have in Jesus Christ should compel us to live changed lives.
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As a pastor who is still fairly new to vocational ministry, I was not only honored to be asked to review this book by 9Marks, but I was excited to. Any opportunity to glean wisdom from men that have gone before me in this calling is an opportunity I want to take advantage of.
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The beauty here is that we all fall into one category or the other. We all either lean toward avoiding God by keeping his commands or avoiding him by breaking them. But in either case, we’re trying to be the rulers of our own lives.
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In 2016 I knew many who pinched their nose and voted for this president…People weren’t pinching their noses anymore. They had gotten used to the smell and were breathing deep.
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If you, personally, have a blessed life, it is for the distinct purpose of being a blessing to others. And if you’re in Christ, then you have every spiritual blessing of heaven (Ephesians 1:3).
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Below is a list of 10 of my favorite reads from 2020–honestly, narrowing it to 10 was a challenge.
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Standing in awe of the potent strength of our God, we’re confronted with our own impotent frailty as his creatures. As Paul says, though, it’s our very weakness that most fully displays God’s power (2 Cor. 12:8–10). We’re small, Billings reminds us, and we must learn how to live that way. We, God’s people, have been drawn out of Sheol because our Savior, Jesus Christ, descended into it for us.
Read MoreBiblical and Systematic Theology According to the Scriptures
Informing the Reforming
flotsam, jetsam, messages in bottles
incompletely reformed thoughts on God, ministry, and life
Matt Boga 