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From the latest Ordinary Pastors profile:

James (Jay) Harvey is senior pastor of Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Newark, Delaware, and it’s an honor to serve under and alongside him. Recently, he’s been showing our church—as much by his example as by his words—how to suffer well. I was brand new to Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi, when our student body prayed for him in chapel. Their second child, their son Jacob, was born with cystic fibrosis. Years later when I came on staff to serve with him, I asked him about they dealt with what the Lord had given them in Jacob, and he responded in the words of his mentor and pastor Ligon Duncan: “Sometimes God trains his servants by breaking their hearts.” As those who have children with special needs can imagine, their life has a rigorous routine pock-marked with weeks at the hospital when the disease temporarily worsens. I know of no other man who has had to look his 6-year-old in the eye and talk to him about the very real possibility of dying and the need to have faith in Christ, grow in grace, and persevere in what the Lord has given him.

Nevertheless, two years ago, the Lord saw fit to bring another trial of incredible magnitude into Jay’s life. . . .

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