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There are seasons in the life of a believer when something feels unsettled. Not wrong, exactly.But not at rest either. You can be doing the right things.Walking faithfully.Serving.Even seeing fruit. And yet… there is a quiet awareness underneath it all—a sense that something more is being asked of you. We often try to name thatContinue reading “SEASONS OF LIFE”

There are moments when language comes to us before clarity does. Fragments. Phrases. A stirring we can’t quite name. The winter of our discontent. Disquiet with the now. The calm before the storm. Winds of change. They arrive like echoes… not yet a message, but more than random thought. And if we sit with themContinue reading “DISCONTENT”

(Not High Beams) One night many years ago I found myself walking outside in the dark with nothing but a small lantern. It was not a powerful light. It cast a modest circle of illumination only a few feet wide. The path beyond that circle disappeared into darkness. No matter how high I lifted theContinue reading “The Kingdom Runs on Lamp Light”

Dr. Paul E. Potter I. Core Identity II. Foundational Faith Convictions III. Personal Journey IV. Marriage and Partnership V. Ministry Focus VI. Teaching Style and Voice VII. Writing and Scholarship VIII. Relationship to Scripture IX. Current Season of Life X. Defining Characteristics

I’m writing a new book. I’ll be posting chapters as I go-along. This is the Preface      Over the years, some have described my spiritual journey as that of a one-trick pony. If that is true, then the trick has been discipleship. I return to it again and again—not because it is novel or efficient, butContinue reading “ONE TRICK PONY”

Covenant Ground If a modern observer had stumbled upon the scene in Genesis 15, it would have looked terrifying—five animal carcasses laid out on the ground, three of them split cleanly in half, the pieces arranged opposite one another with a path running between them. Blood soaked the earth. Death marked the ground. To modernContinue reading “God Went First: A Covenant Written in Blood”