Darryl Dash's Blog, page 2
August 12, 2025
What Is a Marriage?
Many people think they know the answer, but I’ve found we’re often not as clear as we should be. What is a wedding, and what is a marriage?
It's important to base our understanding on what the Bible teaches to ensure it aligns with God's design. Lack of clarity about weddings and marriage leads to confusion in our personal lives, society, and the church.
In his book Christian Ethics, Wayne Grudem provides this helpful definition:
Marriage is… a lifelong relationship between a man and a woman that i...
August 10, 2025
What a Wedding’s Like (Song of Songs 3:6-5:1)
Big Idea: A wedding is a regal, passionate giving of one to another that is blessed by the community.
There’s nothing quite like a wedding. Even the most cynical among us can’t help but be moved when a groom stands at the front, waiting, and the bride begins her walk down the aisle. Their expressions and exchanged vows reveal that we’re witnessing something more meaningful than just the moment. And we are! Weddings give us a glimpse of something transcendent, something at the very heart of the un...
August 9, 2025
Saturday Links
Curated links for your weekend reading:
The Financial and Spiritual Principle of Compound Interest
Lessons learned when they are tiny do not easily fade but instead accumulate and bear fruit over a lifetime.
The Case Stott Made for Christian Social Involvement
If we are to be Christlike, we too should feel anger at injustice and compassion for its victims.
Selective Admiration: Why You Don’t Need Perfect Heroes
When we abandon the myth of the perfect hero, something liberating happens: we stop waiting...
August 5, 2025
My 2025 Tech Stack
Occasionally, I like to share about the tech tools I use. I enjoy reading about the tools that others use; maybe some of my suggestions will be helpful for you.
One caveat: the tools you already use may already be good enough. We often waste time searching for better tools instead of using the ones we already have.
Here are the tools I currently use the most.
Task Management: ThingsI love Things. I use it every day. I love how easy this task management app is to use. It meets my needs perfectly, an...
August 3, 2025
What Dating’s Like (Song of Songs 2:8-3:5)
Big Idea: Dating involves both the excitement of romantic pursuit and the challenges of managing powerful desires and resolving relationship issues before marriage.
The tricky part of a romantic relationship is the awkward in-between phase after romance starts but before marriage.
It’s exciting. In the first section of the Song of Songs, we learn that romantic love is a gift that brings intense desires that should be controlled. It's like a opening a dam. Once the fire of romance is kindled, it’s ...
August 2, 2025
Saturday Links
Curated links for your weekend reading:
Your greatest danger is letting the urgent things crowd out the important.
Success in ministry is abiding. Success in ministry is faithfulness to Jesus Christ. Success in ministry is persevering to the very end.
Practical Christian Guardrails for Humor and Joking
Here are two areas to be wary of to keep our humour from being destructive to the soul.
If the next generation outsources reading to AI and, in the pro...
July 29, 2025
A Strategy for Handling Anxiety
Anxiety permeates every aspect of our lives. The fast pace of life, constant comparisons from social media, and world uncertainties make many of us feel overwhelmed. Despite digital connections, many carry their burdens alone.
Telling someone not to be anxious doesn’t help. In fact, it often backfires. That’s why Paul’s words in Philippians 4:6—“Do not be anxious about anything”—can feel almost impossible at first glance.
Yet Paul doesn’t leave us with a command alone; he gives us a strategy.
The S...July 27, 2025
The Gift of Romance (Song of Songs 1:1-2:7)
Big Idea: Romantic love is a gift, but it creates powerful desires that shouldn’t be unleashed too soon.
The Song of Songs, like romantic love, is confusing and a little embarrassing.
It’s confusing. I had no idea when I picked this book how confusing it is. We've just completed the Book of Revelation, which is likely the most challenging book in the New Testament to understand and interpret. Now we’re in the Song of Songs, which may be the hardest book in the Old Testament to understand and inter...
July 26, 2025
Saturday Links
Curated links for your weekend reading:
Where and How Do We Draw the Line?
Here are seven steps we ought to pursue in establishing doctrinal boundaries.
A Christian Vision for Exercise
Our charge is to make physical exertion a means, among others, to spiritual health and joy.
God chooses the weak. It’s a prerequisite to being used by God.
The principal means of growth for God’s people is the corporate gathering of God’s people.
July 22, 2025
We're Only Scratching the Surface of Scripture
If you have a couple of extra hours, or even if you don't, you really should listen to this interview with Jim Hamilton on the Room for Nuance podcast (Apple Podcasts | Spotify| YouTube). It's about his new book on the literary structure of the Gospel of John. I listened while I was exercising and kept wishing I had a pen to write down some of the insights. The podcast blew my mind. Even though I've read the Gospel of John many times and have even preached through it, I saw things and made conne...
