When free time is available, we often want to relax...but does that really build us up as we need? Sometimes it does, but sometimes the time is just wasted looking at useless things, or engaging in fruitless ventures. Here's a rich series to listen to, or you can read the transcript :).
The great pastor and teacher, John MacArthur, brings Seven Steps to Spiritual Stability.
Pray for John MacArthur and his dear wife. Here is an aged man who has been committed to truth for decades. He's encouraged thousands and thousands to follow closer to the Lord. He has such a clear, organized method of communicating--I have learned a lot from him over the past 28 years or so. Teaching and preaching, and demonstrating his profound love for the church, he is an inspiration. When I heard him preach on his profound love for the church, it really got in my mind and I've thought about it many times throughout the years since. Do I love the church?? Really love it? So that I'm all-in even if there are problems? Because there always will be problems. Do I guard the church, build it up, serve in it, keep it undefiled by who I am and what I do? I think that lesson from John is one that will stick with me and help me through hard times more than anything else he's said that I've heard.
Here's some good teaching, friends....
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