HeyJaredScott
I’m a Jesus follower, husband, dad, and pastor. I love good theology, encouraging other pastors, and noticing the grace and beauty God hides in the ordinary.
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Dear Pastor,Subscribe nowI’ve had more Mondays than I’d like to count where I had a hard time finding hope. Sunday’s sermon fell flat, or the problems you prayed about last week haven’t budged, or that person you have poured yourself into still isn’t changing, or they’re going the opposite direction. And then there are some times when your own body, or your own soul is simply just….tired.But the good news is that hope is not measured by how hopeful you fee
The Darkness is not Dark to Him (opens the original)
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One of the strangest things about depression or burnout that makes it difficult is how hard it is to describe what was happening to me.Subscribe nowI knew the right words; I mean, I had been a pastor for years, talking was sort of my thing. I knew how to talk about suffering, depression, anxiety, fear, faith, providence and the goodness of God. I had preached those things to other people, counseled people through them, and tried to help people understand what God was doing when
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Dear Pastor,Some weeks you just can’t seem to hear God as well.ShareMaybe yesterday took more out of you than you expected. Maybe you are carrying something in your family, your church, or your own heart that you can’t make good sense of. Maybe you know all the right things about God’s presence, but today you just don’t feel it.Ps
Church, Hope In the Lord (opens the original)
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Last week, we left the Psalmist waiting, as he says “I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I hope.”Subscribe nowHe described himself as a watchman waiting for the morning. That image became important to me during my own time in the depths because I was slowly learning that I could not make the morning come. I could cry out to God, saturate myself with His Word, do the work He had put in front of me, and wait intently to see what He was doing. But
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Dear Pastor,Some of the most powerful ministry you will ever do will come from some of the darkest places you have ever been.Subscribe nowPsalm 130 begins with one man crying, “Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD!” He has been neck deep in the darkness, hoping in God’s Word and watching for morning. But by the end of the Psalm, he is turning toward his audience in what feels like full confidence and saying, “O Israel, hope in the LO
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