If Adam had a business card, it would have read “Gardener.” Nothing exciting there. And yet the words God used to describe his job are anything but ordinary.

In the pastoral ministry world, we sometimes get the impression from the Bright Minds Among Us that only losers quit. Well, maybe so. But Jesus came for losers.

We need the Jesus who loves us in our Genesis 13 moments and our Genesis 12 moments.

We should note that in all the Bible's words about reproof and rebuke and discipline, the Bible never says to "confess one another's sins."