Hello, friends. I'm Aaron, a common pastor, church planter, aspiring coffee roaster and sometimes author. My greatest joy is co-creating with the King in his ongoing, unfolding Kingdom work. This is where I process some of what I’m learning, unlearning and relearning. Welcome.
All in Jesus
"If you don't believe demons are real, try planting a church. You won’t get very far in advancing God’s kingdom without feeling resistance from the enemy." - Darrin Patrick
Some days I like to think I'm like John or Peter. But if I'm honest, most days I think I'm a lot more like Judas - doubtful that God can be anywhere near as good as Jesus suggests and tempted at times to sell out for a measly bag of silver.
Today I praise God that even the Judas' of the world are invited around the table of the lamb.
“There’s nothing new under the sun.” Go ahead and admit it. You’ve not only heard this phrase, you’ve said it. Perhaps numerous times. It’s a common one in our Christian vernacular. So let me go ahead on the record and say this: I don’t like this phrase. More importantly, I don’t think it’s true. I think Solomon was wrong.
If the past few years have revealed anything, it’s that we are not well. We never were. In this season the human heart is simply being exposed in our country for what it is: dark and hopelessly broken apart from Jesus. Keeping or swapping out presidents, political parties or kingdoms of this world will not change this. It’ll just rearrange the details.
Though celebrations have at times been hard to come by, one of the things this past year has created in me is a deep longing for more of Jesus.
I want more of the work of Jesus. I want more of the person of Jesus. I want more of the presence of Jesus.
I want all of it. And I want it for you too.
Yesterday I received a text message from a good friend that caused me to slam my phone down in disgust.
My friend had just delivered a large order of sandwiches to a church here in town to the tune of $1,500. He shared with me that it took he and another employee the majority of the morning to prepare the nearly two hundred box lunches. Although this church has a reputation for never tipping the delivery drivers from the business where my friend works, he thought surely they would tip this time. The order was enormous and the church had requested a discount. Perhaps, if nothing else, the church would tip the 10 percent discount to those who served them.
