I love to teach the word to the church every Sunday morning. It’s definitely one of my passions to edify and exhort God’s people-and to be ministered-to as I study. Reading books from some great scholars and theologians is inspiring, finding real-life illustrations is fun, and then adding a little personal experience completes it: finding the recipe, adding the ingredients, and then “feeding” it to the people!

But Sunday’s (5/17) teaching was a new experience for me because the Lord directed me to a new addition to the recipe: myself. Yes all of the usual ingredients were key parts to the meal, but God made it clear that I was to add a distinctly new flavor to it. For whatever reason, He wouldn’t just let me become a “garnishment” to that meal-because that was about as far as I wanted to go.

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