Looking Back at 2023, Looking Ahead to 2024
Ask Pastor John
Desiring God
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🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | 2023 ends for us here in 10 days, Pastor John, and to close out one year and to |
| 0:10.1 | enter another we like to set aside some time to look back when God's grace |
| 0:13.0 | to us over the past 12 months and to look at what we have in store and what we have |
| 0:19.0 | planned for the next 12 months ahead and that's our goal today in this update episode. Obviously there |
| 0:26.1 | are no guarantees for our future, but we do plan. We prepare, we resolve and we labor towards future goals and we do all that because so many of you |
| 0:36.2 | listening right now are generously invested in supporting our future endeavors. |
| 0:41.6 | So it's good for us to talk about all of this with you. our partners in the work and with those of you |
| 0:44.8 | our partners in the work and with those of you who may be listening and |
| 0:48.6 | ready to become partners with us. This is for you as well. |
| 0:52.0 | And as we look back on 2023, start with a personal update for us, |
| 0:57.2 | Pastor John. Just tell us how the year was for you personally and then dive into the labors that you were able to accomplish. |
| 1:04.3 | I have said many times Tony and I'm going to say it again. |
| 1:08.3 | God has been very kind to me in making me a part of the ministry of desiring God. |
| 1:18.3 | I feel the same way about being a part of Bethlehem College and seminary, but desiring God is where I spend most of my time and I don't take it for granted because not every pastor who comes to the end of his pastoral work like me after 33 years |
| 1:39.2 | at Bethlehem not every pastor can step into a ministry whose mission he loves with all his heart. |
| 1:50.0 | I love the mission of desiring God. It is not an overstatement to say it is my life. |
| 1:59.8 | We exist to move people to live for the glory of God, by helping them be satisfied in God |
| 2:08.0 | above all else, especially in their suffering, by communicating the truth and beauty and worth of all |
| 2:16.7 | God is for us in Christ, grounded in, governed by, and saturated with the infallible scriptures. |
| 2:25.5 | I love this mission, this life. |
| 2:29.6 | And I love the dozens of utterly devoted people to that mission, desiring God that I get to work with. |
| 2:36.2 | So that's my dominant feeling as I look back over the year. |
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