Daniel Akin

What Else Is Worthwhile

January 18, 2010

“Oh what a privilege to be made a minister of the things of the ‘happy God.’ I only hope that He will let me preach to those who have never heard that name Jesus. What else is worthwhile in this life? I have heard nothing better. ‘Lord, send me!’” -Jim Elliot, quoted in Daniel L. …

Servants of God, Not Ourselves

January 11, 2010

“A Christian minister is a person who is “not his own” (1Cor. 6:19); he is the servant of God, and therefore ought to be wholly devoted to him. By entering on that sacred office he solemnly undertakes to be always engaged as much as possible in the Lord’s work, and not to choose his own …