Emphasis Preaching Journal
When I began my career as a pastor...
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When I began my career as a pastor my dad gave me only one word of advice. Strange, when you think of the complexity of the job and the trauma a pastor is thrust into, that my father would focus on something so seemingly simplistic and incidental as I am about to report, until of course one pauses to contemplate the depth of its meaning. Dad simply said, "When you shake someone's hand at the door of the sanctuary, be sure to know their name."
When we know that God knows our name, we are no longer "forsaken."
When we know that God knows our name, we are no longer "forsaken."