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The Placebo Effect

Mike Kelly | June 2, 2024

…there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. Psalm 73.25 I’m reasonably sanctified for a minister anyway, but I’m not sure I could say what Asaph said. God is our chief end and ultimate joy, and nothing here matters if we lose him while we get it, but my prayer list is longer than Asaph’s. Maybe, that’s why I’m just a pastor […]

The Death of The Minister

Mike Kelly | March 20, 2024

Part I: Accidental Hypocrites I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live,but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Galatians 2:20 Housemates I once stayed in […]

Thank God Jesus was Codependent

Mike Kelly | February 7, 2024

The Last Supper is a study in dysfunctional relationships and Jesus’ commitment to maintain them at any cost. In fact, that’s the story of his entire ministry. True, he set firm boundaries with some pharisees, and his accommodating spirit reached its limits in the Court of the Gentiles. For the most part, however, Jesus put […]

Sunday Meds

Lord's Day meditations to help you keep going

The Sober Joy of Preaching the Gospel

Mike Kelly | June 30, 2024

See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse. Deuteronomy 11.26 It’s not just Moses. Whenever you preach the Gospel, you set a blessing and a curse before the people. Unless you have issues, you’d rather preach about blessings, but blessings are to curses as sunrise is to night. The brilliance of […]

The Law of Inverse Proportionality

Mike Kelly | June 23, 2024

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Matthew 21.9 The Law of Inverse Proportionality states that the more excited a visitor is after their first Sunday the less likely they are to be attending one year later. In Jesus’ case, it didn’t even take a week. Of course, when his people […]

Jetsam and Flotsam

Mike Kelly | June 16, 2024

My soul longs, even faints for the courts of the Lord. Psalm 84.2 That longing is part of our first vocational inklings. Other parts of ministry draw us in, but the pedestrian majesty of a room full (even half-full) of ordinary people gathered in God’s presence is uniquely compelling. Once those inklings become a calling, […]