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Nov 3, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Dave Harvey
Part of the pastor’s job is to help Christians regularly refocus on the gospel. To a friend who is bitter, we encourage them to, “…forgive, as God in Christ forgave you,” (Eph. 4:32). To the husband who is passive: “Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her,” (Eph. 5:25). In other words, we look at how the gospel speaks to a person’s struggles, fears, anger, and selfishness, and then help people apply the gospel to their particular struggles.
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Dave Harvey
Right now family serves an earthly purpose. But the day will come when it will be transformed into a glorious experience that is multiplied and magnified by the larger family to which we are united. As Randy Alcorn has said, “God usually doesn’t replace his original creation, but when he does, he replaces it with something that is far better, never worse.”Okay, I’m going to say something that may sound unsettling, but I want you to think about it. Are you ready?
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Dave Harvey
Farmers are counting the cost of the long, wet winter as they start to bring in record low harvests of grain. The amount of wheat planted has fallen by nearly a tenth, and two thirds of British farmers say they have lost money. Throughout winter and spring many fields were waterlogged, crops that had been sown were lost and farmers couldn’t get onto fields to sow anything. Mike Wilkins, an arable farmer in Wiltshire, lost about half his wheat.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Dave Harvey |Wendy Alsup |Justin Taylor |Steve Bateman
When a leader falls, his local church feels the collateral damage. They’re like a crowd standing too close to the curb on a rainy day. The crisis drives by and splashes everyone. It drenches the elders who stood close to the leader, and it sprays shame across the whole community (1 Cor. 12:26). Judgments often follow the embarrassment. Some church members instinctively sympathize with the leaders and staff who remain after a crisis.
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May 12, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Dave Harvey
God calls us to take risks, accept costs, and make sacrifices too. That’s how the gospel moves forward—be it to Rome, to rural America, or to Ricky in the next cubicle at work. Ambition and risk are the human ingredients God uses to put the gospel into circulation. The word audacious hardly brings to mind serenity or comfort. Nobody ever claims to have an audacious sleep or an audacious moment of poetry reading.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
news.yahoo.com | Harriet Robinson |Dave Harvey |Dawn Limbu
Debbie Wilkins has converted arable land that floods into grass and hay meadowsA farmer is allowing a third of her land to flood to protect the city downstream. Debbie Wilkins, who owns Norton Court Farm near Gloucester, receives a government grant to set aside 300 acres (121 hectares) as a floodplain. She is one of hundreds of farmers around the country who now let the floodplains "do their job". "It takes the pressure off the river and protects the properties below us," Ms Wilkins explained.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
outreachmagazine.com | Dave Harvey
When I felt called to ministry, I had no idea that being a pastor would become an essential means for exposing my sinful heart. Looking back on that early ministry experience that I described above, I can now see that I was undergoing a kind of open-heart surgery. I think what was happening in my heart is well described in James 3:16: “For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.” Just think about it.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
theaquilareport.com | Dave Harvey
True humility directs our desires forward to Christ. All our ambitions are directed towards him. All our plans are in service of his kingdom, and his glory. We expect great things from, and attempt great things for, Jesus Christ, whose name is higher than any other name (Heb. 1:4). If humility is guardrail, gasoline, and governor, then Christ is the goal. We aspire to be only unworthy servants, thrilled with the privilege to simply enter into the joy of our master (Lk. 17:10; Matt. 25:23).
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Oct 10, 2023 | 
ca.sports.yahoo.com | Dave Harvey
Socks that detect the early signs of Alzheimer's Disease. A pregnancy test that blind women can use. And a holographic Barack Obama you can chat with. These are some of the things you can find at Bristol's technology festival. Dave Harvey has been for a look. In a lab for tech start-ups, dozens of new ideas are being pitched, demonstrated and debated. One man says he has "re-invented the drone". And a woman has formulated the perfect probiotic drink for people with major bowel disorders.
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Oct 6, 2023 | 
desiringgod.org | Dave Harvey
What might you say to a church leader who’s experiencing a serious crisis of faith? “It’s not mainly about belief in God,” Joel explained to me. “I know he still exists in some abstract way. I still pray and read my Bible — but the vertical stuff feels less real than before. What feels real is the horizontal chaos. It’s how people in the church treat each other; it’s how we’ve been treated! Never did I think ministry could look so ugly. It’s made me question things I never thought I’d question.
