Author: Paul Santhouse

I am a follower of Jesus Christ. I’m also a husband, father, and grandpa. And I’m part of the Moody Publishers* team. Since I've worked with books for nearly four decades, and I believe the local church is where we become the kind of people Jesus would be in our shoes, that's mostly what this blog is about. Thanks for visiting. Paul *As this is my personal blog, the views and opinions expressed herein are my own, not those of my employer.

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Think about organizing your students into the “soil” types of Mark 4:3-20. • Dead, deaf, and blind to the gospel • Easy come, easy go • Sincere but tempted away • Committed That’s a starting point. A place to begin shepherding. There are buried treasures in Scripture  — passages to pray for each category of […]

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Sometime this summer new freshmen will move up and graduating seniors will move on. In other words, your group will change. Here’s one way to influence the change. Back in college we joined the men’s choir. Eternal practices, frantic sprints to reach the dining hall before it closed (one guy leapt over the hood of […]

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We were at the table last night watching our son. Over the past year he got massive. As in better not arm wrestle him anymore. How did that happen? Well, he went to college, lifted weights all year, and got strong. That’s how life works. You lift, study, train, practice, or whatever, and develop strength. […]

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We talked with a young pastor yesterday. He’s planting a church and populating it with people he leads to Christ. So where are all these new believers coming from? Normal conversations. What kind of conversations? Out comes the napkin and a marker, and then he talks us through the following sketch: It goes like this. […]

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On the cover of The End of Suffering, by Scott Cairns, is a quote that goes like this: The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering, but a supernatural use for it. — Simone Weil There’s an ocean of truth in that statement, and […]