With gratitude to God

(David) I often tell the people of Christ the Word that if they're happy with me as their pastor they have only themselves to blame.

Find a worthy husband and you'll usually find a great wife. Find a faithful pastor and you'll usually find a great church which has incubated and formed her pastor. Sure, it's a symbiotic relationship--pastors also form churches. But it's almost impossible to overstate the influence godly, faithful church members have in the lives of their leadership.

And so it is with this blog as well.

Tim and I might as well be writing a broadsheet for a grocery store if it weren't for the great men and women who really are the glory of this blog. Your names aren't on the top, but you do most of the really great writing here. When we step out on a limb in faith you defend us. You make our points better than we do. We deeply appreciate you. And in particular, in recent posts on the blog, I've appreciated Kamilla and David Gray, David Curell and Josh Congrove, Adam Spaetti and Don Alexander, PCA Friend and TUAD. I could name others, but these have blessed us in recent days and to them we owe our thanks both as owners of the blog and as recipients of their wisdom.

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[Truth Unites... and Divides]

David Bayly: "We deeply appreciate you. And in particular, in recent posts on the blog, I've appreciated Kamilla and David Gray, David Curell and Josh Congrove, Adam Spaetti and Don Alexander, PCA Friend and TUAD."

And I deeply appreciate the Bayly Brothers and this blog for having the strong courage of conviction to stand firm in the Faith and for the Faith.

[Don Alexander]

Truth Unites...and Divides, I know David very well and your affection is well placed. I look forward to meeting the rest of you in eternity.

[Tim Bayly]

Of course I agree with my brother on this--completely. My heart, too, is filled with gratitude for a congregation and blog readers who push us toward faithfulness to our calling, not away from it.

Much gratitude and love,