Matthew White

Happy Sunday, just a reminder that #jesuslovesyou love y’all ❤️

What do the subtle compromises in your life look like? This isn’t about self righteousness or condemnation. This is about HOPE 🙏🏾 open.substack.com/pub/themattyhg… #MichiganFootball #Hope #restoration #ncaa

What do the subtle compromises in your life look like? open.substack.com/pub/themattyhg… Thank you @KB_HGA for the gifts of Art of Drifting and Art of Hope 🙏🏾

Friends, if you invite your pastor to lunch or coffee, please tell him what you want to talk about... and be honest. "Pastor, can we get lunch? I'd like to talk about..." This helps him assess the urgency, and it may reduce unnecessary anxiety between now and the meeting.

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What is the secret of a happy prayer life? Delight in God. Delight in God leads to delight in prayer.

Noah was crazy until he wasn't. Do whatever God told you to do.

“If your God never disagrees with you, you might be worshiping yourself.” If I won’t obey God when His Word cuts, I’ll never truly experience God when His Word heals. No comfort w/o correction.

People don’t need the flash in the pot moment, the viral moment, but the consistency of a life well lived. Here's a couple of thoughts on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/themattyhg…

Take a picture of one of your bookshelves. Load it into ChatGPT or Grok. Type “Format publishing contents into an Excel-ready table.” When it’s done, “Export to Excel” (or any other format). Now you have a text list of all your books on that shelf. Repeat.

I was thinking about this a couple weeks ago when our church was lined with moms and dads standing up around the whole back of the sanctuary surrounded by and holding children. At this point, I consider rustling, fussing, fidgety sounds of children to be a formal part of Reformed liturgy and a joyful noise to the LORD. I hear the delayed echos of 3 year olds who are modeling reciting the Creed like a syncopated melody in the worship. Truly spectacular.

18 But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.”

Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah in the face of refusing to bow to the idol in Babylon said this (Daniel 3: 17-18) 17 “If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty’s hand.

Have we trained a generation to love the optics instead of the reality? In this day and age of social media glory have we robbed a generation of truth? things are far more than the optics.

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I was recently asked by a couple of younger pastors I mentor how I go about writing pastoral public statements. Here’s a short article that offers some guidance. substack.com/inbox/post/177…

5 questions that help me gauge my spiritual health: Am I giving myself to intentional times of prayer & scripture? Am I committed to interior examination? Am I joining my life to the poor & marginalized? Am I being vulnerable with others? Am I growing in love?