Kirby Key

"20.) Keep a journal, if you can. It will help you to remember ordinary graces you will forget, and it will also show you that almost everything you worried about turned out to be either something that never happened or something that was bearable."

"18.) Most things you think are cul-de-sacs or dry times in your ministry turn out not to be. They are almost always the points where—much later in your life—you will look back and see that God was most at work, preparing you for something else."

"10.) I assumed as a youth pastor that I would “grow out” of youth ministry, but I have learned it is all youth ministry... (it's) the exact same skill set as leading a church, a faculty, a nonprofit, or organizing a coalition in the Oval Office."

"7.) My mind was often wrong, but my gut rarely was.... I should have trusted my gut and would have avoided much heartache."

I especially resonated with these:

"1.) In preparing to preach, teach, and in everything else I’ve done, immersion since childhood in the Scriptures was more important than graduate and postgraduate education in systematic theology.

I found @drmoore.bsky.social Russell Moore's "30 Things I’ve Learned in 30 Years of Ministry" very insightful and helpful.

I encourage you to read the full list: www.christianitytoday.com/.../30-thing...
(or listen to it) youtu.be/r4nxEpWXtM8?...

www.digitalliturgies.net/p/how-great-...

The End of ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ Ukraine and the sum of all fears.

"Gregg Nunziata, a conservative lawyer, summarized the criticisms of the Ukrainian’s lack of tact aptly: “Zelensky failed to appreciate that our president is a moronic narcissist and our vice president is a disingenuous climber.”

thedispatch.com/newsletter/b...

"Republicans have strained to accuse Zelensky of being disrespectful or at the very least undiplomatic in arguing with Trump and Vance—surely the stupidest, most pathetic rationalization for a sea change in American foreign policy in U.S. history."

"You can fake your way to vice but never to virtue."

agreed

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Day 12: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

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Day 11: Prodigal God by Timothy Keller

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Day 10: The Whole Christ by Sinclair Ferguson

PICK SIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Day 9: Gentle and Lowly by Dane Ortlund

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Day 8: The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis

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Day 7: What Is Reformed Theology? by R.C. Sproul

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Day 6: Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis

to the next chapter of a greater story, a new and wondrous reality suffused with the deep magic of divine love.”

to the utter east!

“The joy—the stab of inconsolable longing—that animated his poetry and prose was on display in how he died, in those weeks of quiet rest, as he endured his physical maladies with patience and good humor, in full faith that this earthly realm is just a prelude…

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Day 5: The Mortification of Sin by John Owen

“Let the winter come. It is the only path to spring.”

“But to an infinite artist, a Creator in love with his craft, there is no unimportant corner, no thrown-away image, no tattered thread in the novel left untied.”

“I love the world as it is, because I love what it will be.”

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Day 4: Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl by N.D. Wilson

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He’s good, not safe

On second thought, how could I not include all the rest?

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"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."