Audio Transcript Happy New Year — 2025! — as we launch this podcast into year thirteen. What an amazing ride — all made possible by the grace of God and by your involvement in listening and sending us your questions and praying for us. Thank you for your role in making it all happen. For…
I want to talk to you about Christian joy this morning, and I know that on any given Sunday, some are eager for that, and others are not. Perhaps you’re suffering. Perhaps you’re carrying heavy sorrows. I want you to know from the beginning that real Christian joy does not ignore or suppress or sideline…
I wish I could always address God in prayer as Paul did: “Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think . . .” (Ephesians 3:20). If I more consistently believed that mine was a God to answer well beyond my asking, I would pray more…
“I will cool you insensibly, by degrees, by little and little.” At the end of one year, on the cusp of another, I remember the words that once haunted the soul of seventeenth-century pastor John Bunyan (1628–1688). He imagined the devil skulking nearby, not as a raging dragon but as a patient and calculating snake,…
Audio Transcript Every week, our inbox gets some very interesting scenarios we need to work out together, like this one today from an anonymous young woman. “Hello, Pastor John, and thank you for your ministry and for this podcast. My question for you is about how I can respond in faith when someone insists that…
Statistics of servants of God who do not end well can be very discouraging. Dr. J. Robert Clinton conducted a now-famous study of how leaders in Scripture finished their tenures. Of those about whom he was able to get sufficient data, Clinton determined that about one in three finished well. Commenting on the contemporary scene,…
Recently, I enjoyed reconnecting with a friend from college who is now sixty-something years old (like me) and who cares for her elderly mom (like me). There are a lot of us! This friend described how she and her husband took her mother, a widow in declining health, into their home; they had thought the…
by Stacy Jackson December 26, 2024 This year, the Leadership Institute will introduce two new sessions for Black women leaders — AI Exploration and Cyber Security Adventure. { alert(‘URL copied to clipboard’); }) .catch((error) => { console.error(‘Error copying URL: ‘, error); }); } ]]> The New Jersey Black Women’s Collective (NJBWC) is calling on the…
