Jeff Skipper

“If I am bored with ordinary people in ordinary places, then am I not bored with what God delights in? If I think that local limits of body and place are too small a thing for a person as gifted as I am, then don’t I want to escape what God himself gladly and daily inhabits? If I stare at a face, a flower, a child, or a congregation and say, “But God, not this. I want to do something great for you!” Am I not profoundly misunderstanding what God says a great thing is?”
― Zack Eswine, The Imperfect Pastor: Discovering Joy in Our Limitations through a Daily Apprenticeship with Jesus

“vocation of pastoral work among the greatness of slow, overlooked people and places can become in God’s hands, all gift, true joy, abiding contentment, and good life. Why? Because this is Jesus’s way. Where”
― Zack Eswine, The Imperfect Pastor: Discovering Joy in Our Limitations through a Daily Apprenticeship with Jesus

“There is none like Him; I would not exchange one smile of His lovely face with kingdoms.”
― Samuel Rutherford, Letters of Samuel Rutherford

“You see, the root cause of our lack of engagement in God’s mission is not a missions problem but a gospel problem. We demonstrate by our inaction that we no longer marvel at grace. We are unaffected by the beauty of what God has done for us in Christ.”
― Trevin Wax, Gospel-Centered Teaching: Showing Christ in All the Scripture