Finding True Strength (UST Commissioning Service 2024)

Michael Reeves

Michael Reeves
July 15, 2024

Forty percent of pastors have considered pulling out of ministry in the last year. We need a generation that is stronger than ever. Not born bull-headed or temperamentally steady, but with true strength given as a gift and freely available, untapped to every believer. Where does true strength come from? How does one access it? Michael Reeves charges the 2024 UST graduates from Psalm 84.

Commissioning service, Pastoral, Psalms, UST Commissioning Service

Michael Reeves

Michael Reeves is the President of Union School of Theology, where he teaches in the areas of systematic and historical theology and also on preaching and spiritual formation. He is author of several books, including Rejoicing in Christ, Delighting in the Trinity: An Introduction to the Christian Faith, and Rejoice and Tremble: The Surprising Good News of the Fear of the Lord.

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