In this episode we discuss...

• Pastoral contentment in the local church:
  • 1 Timothy 6:6–10
  • We live in a world that thrives on stealing your contentment!
    • Cell phone updates
    • New Vehicles
    • Weight loss drugs
    • We're drilled with advertisements telling us what we really need
    • Love of a bigger church
    • Love of respect from other pastors
    • Love of a different location
  • How much of our discontent is based on GOOD things vs. selfish things?  How much of it is just part of being a fallen human in a fallen world and finding no ultimate satisfaction here?
  • How can you work on becoming content with your lot as a rural pastor in the church you’re in today?
    • Philippians 4:11-13
    • Matthew 6:33
    • 2 Corinthians 12:10
    • Isaiah 26:3
    • Psalm 37:3-5
  • Be sure of your call to every business you go about. Though it is the least business, be sure of your call to it; then, whatever you meet with, you may quiet your heart with this: I know I am where God would have me. Nothing in the world will quiet the heart so much as this: when I meet with any cross, I know I am where God would have me, in my place and calling; I am about the work that God has set me. - Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

Stuff Rural Pastors Can Use Review:

• Are you preaching through John? Consider grabbing A.W. Pink’s 3 Volume Commentary on the Gospel of John!

Our Quote of the Day:

• Contentment is one of the most distinguishing traits of the godly person, because a godly person has his heart focused on God rather than on possessions or position or power. - Jerry Bridges

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