Famine in a Full Field
Paul planted, Apollos watered, and God gave the increase — yet Corinth still came up thin. Ten harvest killers that quietly destroy what God is trying to grow in a church, and how to pull them up.
Paul planted, Apollos watered, and God gave the increase — yet Corinth still came up thin. Ten harvest killers that quietly destroy what God is trying to grow in a church, and how to pull them up.
Langley had the grant, the engineers, and the headlines. The Wright brothers had a notebook. One machine went into the Potomac; the other flew at Kitty Hawk. The difference was consistency — why faithful leaders outlast flashy ones, from Daniel to the parable of the talents.
The thief of John 10:10 has no authority to take anything from you. He has only ever had two moves: negotiate, or steal. Four rooms (your song, your substance, your sacrifice, your standard) and he breaks into none of them. He talks them open.
"We'll be praying for you" has quietly become a platitude instead of a promise. Here are four reasons Christians stall out at concern and never cross over into real prayer — and what the altar of incense and the daily manna teach us about rebuilding a prayer life that works.
Paul never tells the Galatians to start doing good. He tells them not to get tired of it. Here are seven things that quietly pile up in the interval between the sowing and the harvest, and how Scripture's weary builders kept going without coming down off the wall.
From a distance you cannot tell them apart. That is not a flaw in the analogy. That is the analogy.
A pastoral look at nine biblical warning signs of spiritual weariness, from neglected prayer to quiet rebellion, and how to catch the flicker before the flame goes out.
Why taking trusted advice against your better judgment can leave you holding the bag — alone.