One of my greatest privileges in life is to be a pastor. I love being a pastor. I love serving Christ

Covenant Church here in Matthews, North Carolina. I love all the churches that I've had the privilege to serve at.

And I love pastors. I hope that you will consider joining us at the Corum Deo Pastors Conference in March.

It's born out of my desire and the other men who are joining me here to try to serve and to encourage and to bless pastors.

And we're blessed too by the singing and by being together in a room full of brother pastors.

And we know other church leaders. We hope that you'll come.

If it's best in your season of ministry

to come with your wife, you can do that as well.

We will be fostering an environment,

a fraternity, a brotherhood of pastors

who are putting our hand to the plow

and gathering together for these two or three days that we might be strengthened

in our ministry. Our prayer is that everyone who attends the conference will leave feeling

encouraged, edified, inspired, equipped, recharge for faithfulness and ministry. That's what I would

love for myself going to a conference. I would love for all of the men that the Lord brings to this

conference that you head back into your study more equipped more excited to get into the

text for that week more enthusiastic to stand up and preach more ready to make the hard

decisions and keep praying and keep serving in your local congregation.

We're thrilled to have with us this year, John Piper, H.B. Charles Jr., Ligand Duncan, Chad Van Dix,

or Brooks Buser, Jason Halopoulos, Andrew Walker, and myself.

We are hoping again to fill the sanctuary here at Christ's covenant with nearly 2,000 pastors and church leaders.

Hopefully a beautiful spring few days here in the Charlotte area,

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