Courage is often quieter than we imagine. It is the parent who tells the hard truth, the believer who refuses the convenient…
Courage · Presence · Fear
Analogy
pastoral wisdom
Ministry easily becomes about the minister—success, reputation, or the fear of failure. Scripture relocates the center. We plant and water; God gives the growth. The call is to faithful labor, not to control the harvest. When the work is held as His, both the highs and the lows lose some of their power to distort.
How you’d preach it
Guards against both pride and despair in ministry. Faithfulness is required; results belong to God.