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A Shot of Encouragement

Short encouragements, usually built on one verse or one good quotation.

2026

  1. Nerve as Faith

2025

  1. Prayer Holds Us Together
  2. Three Spheres
  3. That You Might Know
  4. Always Level 101
  5. Why So Much Soul-Suck?
  6. Stewardship Hermeneutics
  7. Uncomfortable

2024

  1. A Blessed House

2023

  1. All Are Yours - the Podcast
  2. Sitzfleisch
  3. The Golden Rule of Reading
  4. A Clear and Concise Demonstration of the Divine Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures

2022

  1. Light Doesn't Need Handcuffs on Darkness

2021

  1. Recognize and Resist Wicked Rulers Day
  2. Business 300
  3. Learning in Wartime - the DEFINITIVE YouTube Edition
  4. Built of Very Different Stone
  5. Hauling Off
  6. A Time to Bother with Principles

2020

  1. Keep Calm and Just Conquer
  2. MacArthur Out of the Corner

2019

  1. YouVersion
  2. Trinitarian Goals
  3. Making It Easier
  4. Enormous Education
  5. Pipe and Pencil
  6. The Clean Sea Breeze of the Centuries
  7. Quite a Tongue
  8. The Lost Gift
  9. A Real Crack-Up
  10. Not a Blank Canvas
  11. #SamePageSummer
  12. The Grail
  13. Prosecute the Work
  14. Sunday Well Spent
  15. An Ambitious Mission
  16. Losing as a Weapon

2018

  1. All the Pains It Cost
  2. The Leader's Bookshelf
  3. What God Does
  4. Weaponized Inspiration Generation
  5. A Scholar in Self-Denial
  6. Reasons to Study Latin
  7. Do Your Duties
  8. How to Order
  9. The Art of a Calm Heart
  10. The Weight of Irritability
  11. More Bad Ideas
  12. That Is Really Tired
  13. Against Abortion and For Adoption
  14. Generals and Shepherds
  15. The Obedience of Cancer
  16. A Gaping Void

2017

  1. Sing It for Yourself
  2. Hold It Together
  3. The Genius of Geneva
  4. The Trojan Rabbit Church
  5. The Patient Within
  6. Old and New Humility
  7. Four Chariots Wide

2016

  1. A Noble Trick
  2. Why God Sometimes Conceals His Remedies
  3. It's not just okay
  4. Spoonfuls of Judgment
  5. No Undiscovered Lurking-places

2015

  1. Birds of a Feather
  2. Irrigating Deserts
  3. Christmas Is Overboard
  4. Adorned with Divine Delight
  5. The Reformers' Days
  6. It's Already Hitting the Fan
  7. No Give, No Glory
  8. Not What We Once Were
  9. There Are No Rough Drafts
  10. The Best of Burdens
  11. The Investment of Suffering
  12. Impossibillions Is a Lot
  13. Of Mortal Ills Notwithstanding
  14. It's an Important Difference
  15. There Is Still Work to Do
  16. Hard to Find, Harder to Miss
  17. Image Bearing by Battle
  18. Parents Are Always Parenting
  19. When Obergefell Falls
  20. Children of the Rainbow

2014

  1. A Visible Purpose
  2. One Thought
  3. There Is No Spoon
  4. The Day of Refreshing

2013

  1. What shall we call that?
  2. Burnout Preventative
  3. Right Where He Wants Them
  4. Leaders from the Front
  5. The Tyranny of Sensitivity
  6. Jolted

2012

  1. Favourable Conditions
  2. Imaging Creatures
  3. Tebow in Babylon
  4. Two Great Things
  5. Enculturation Centers
  6. True Glory Isn't Grabby

2011

  1. Spiritual Assets
  2. Organizing Answers
  3. Right up the Middle
  4. Sweeter Than Honey
  5. Desperation and Deliverance
  6. Eminent and Transcendent Love
  7. Clearly Outrageous
  8. Check In to Build Up
  9. Wait No More
  10. Even Harder to Find
  11. Motherhood as a Mission Field
  12. Merry Warriors
  13. 10 Things an Effective Minister Must Remember
  14. The True Excellency of a Gospel Minister
  15. Nothing More Terrible
  16. Available Space
  17. Swords of Two by Fours
  18. Love of the Congregation

2010

  1. Expressing the Congregation
  2. Faint and Feeble
  3. Possessed
  4. Equip the Rider
  5. Changing Seminary
  6. A Coward's Castle
  7. Mission Accomplished
  8. Laugh Track
  9. Sharing What We Got
  10. Why International Adoption
  11. Not What I Once Was
  12. The Great Auction of Stolen Goods
  13. The Criterion of Successful Churches
  14. Pure Religion
  15. Overcoming Objections
  16. Theological Reasons for Wordiness
  17. The Tinker's Ability
  18. A Head Regardless
  19. The Oxygen of Church Politics
  20. Ministers Learning Sympathy
  21. Marching in the Dark
  22. Living Sacrifices
  23. The Atonement-Real or Potential
  24. Like His Teacher
  25. Blowing Smoke
  26. Cold Before Long
  27. An Environment of Grace
  28. Remember the Signs
  29. Tapering Off in Sin
  30. Showing Up Early
  31. Omnivorous Attentiveness
  32. First, Care
  33. Ends up as a Racket
  34. Behind His Back
  35. A Less Busy Heart
  36. Stop It
  37. Running to Heaven
  38. Bad Christian Writing
  39. Dangerous Calling
  40. Wearing Out Hammers
  41. The Breech and Muzzle
  42. A Place for Writing
  43. Communion with God
  44. In Us and From Us
  45. An Empty Barrel

2009

  1. Pray for Your Elders
  2. Questions for a New Year
  3. In Honor of Tethered Preaching
  4. His Blood is Bibline
  5. Wear the Pants
  6. Industrial Grade Sandpaper
  7. Does the Shoe Fit
  8. Equipped by the Word
  9. The Walls of Doctrine
  10. How We Say It
  11. How to Evaluate a Preacher
  12. Before you say that word
  13. Love the Standard
  14. Heidelberg One
  15. Faith by Hearing
  16. Repentance Quotes

2008

  1. The Savanna Project
  2. Discerning Repentance
  3. You Can't Pay for This Kind of Promotion
  4. Pastoral Wisdom
  5. Another Shot at Life
  6. One to One Ministry
  7. How Good Is God?

2007

  1. Aspiring to Seek His Help at All Times
  2. The Gospel in Six Minutes
  3. Three Minutes More
  4. Winners vs. Losers
  5. Happy Sheep Come from Happy Shepherds

2005

  1. The Man of God