“Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching,” Paul exhorts the young pastor Timothy (1 Tim. 4:16). For many of us, it’s dangerously easy to guard our doctrine but not our lives. How can a busy pastor tend to his soul?

In this episode of The Everyday Pastor, Matt Smethurst and Ligon Duncan discuss practices for maintaining intimacy with Christ amid the demands of ministry.

Recommended resources:

• Josiah Bull (ed.), Letters of John Newton
• Jonathan Aitken, John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace
• Tony Reinke, Newton on the Christian Life: To Live Is Christ
• Sinclair Ferguson, The Whole Christ: Legalism, Antinomianism, and Gospel Assurance—Why the Marrow Controversy Still Matters
• David Gibson, The Lord of Psalm 23: Jesus Our Shepherd, Companion, and Host