Pastor Appreciation Month

October is National Pastor Appreciation Month. For me it is a time of deep personal and spiritual reflection, a time to thank God for where I have been in the ministry, and to seek God about what's next. This year I am celebrating 33 years in full time ministry. The years have not always been easy or kind, some years have brought incredible challenges that only God's grace and miracle power have brought me through. Each challenge has stretched and strengthened my faith. There is a price to pay to preach the gospel. Is it worth it? For the countless lives that have been transformed, for the woman delivered from addiction, for the man delivered from the torment of mental illness, for the lame who have walked, for those who lived when they should have died, for every soul saved from hell and firmly established in the Kingdom of God? I say yes Lord, yes!