“Repentance means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, undergoing a kind of death.”
#CSLewis
My 23andMe DNA results came back today!! Turns out I’m:
10% Luck
20% Skill
15% Concentrated Power of Will
5% Pleasure
50% Pain
100% Reason to Remember the Name
“If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious as he was before – then I think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.”
#CSLewis
Pastor, remember this: the authority of your preaching does not depend at all on you.
Not your pulpit presence.
Not your learning.
Not your warmth.
The Word of God is objectively authoritative.
You preach the oracles of God (Rom. 3).
Preach Christ with cosmic confidence.