Legacy Over Platform: Six Things That Will Outlast Your Sermons

“Long after the sermon manuscript is lost and the recording disappears into the internet archives, what remains is the quiet, everyday realities of pastoral life that shape people far more than we often realize.” 

The Bible isn’t a smartphone.

“Instruments change us but require us to grow in skill to use them. Their formation of us may not always be positive but has much to do with us and our own virtue and virtuous use of them. Devices change us without requiring skill from us. Their formation of us can still be positive but has much more to do with the device itself than with our use of it.”

Counseling the Victim Identity

“A victim identity forms when someone begins to interpret their entire life primarily through the lens of what was done to them, while God’s redeeming work fades into the background. Suffering becomes the dominant lens through which everything is interpreted.”