Darryl Dash's Blog, page 33
June 3, 2023
Saturday Links
Curated links for your weekend reading:
The Christian life is supernatural, but it is not always sensational.
It is easy to read without getting much benefit. Our eyes can skim over lots of pages and barely take much in.
Cessationist or Continuationist: Have Some Gifts Ceased?
Study your Bible, pray, read, discuss, and when ready, humbly get off the bridge on either the continuationist or cessationist side.
Are Digital and Physical Bibles Friends or Enemies?
Ther...
May 30, 2023
We Need the Example of Robertson McQuilkin
We’re hungry for good examples. We need to follow the instruction of Hebrews 13:7 and find leaders who’ve finished well, and imitate them.
One such leader is Robertson McQuilkin, former president of Columbia International University.
McQuilkin was born in 1927, in Columbia, South Carolina. His parents were pioneers of Columbia International University, then known as Columbia Bible School. His father served as the first president.
McQuilkin met his wife Muriel Wengatz while studying at Columbia. The...
May 28, 2023
How to Live Well (Proverbs)
Big Idea: Fear God, get wisdom, apply wisdom, and remember Jesus, the ultimate wisdom.
What would you say to someone just starting out about how to live well?
I wonder if you would say something like this 45-second commencement speech:
Dear graduates,
Today marks a significant milestone in your life. You have worked hard to reach this point, and I am proud of each and every one of you. As you leave this chapter of your life behind, I want to remind you that the world is waiting for you.
You are the f...
May 27, 2023
Saturday Links
Curated links for your weekend reading:
The most effective mission is the one that flows out of Christian character. Anything less is a volatile compromise, and the bill will come due eventually.
The Freedom of Embracing My Weaknesses
As important as it has been to learn who God has made me to be has been learning, admitting, and embracing who he has not made me to be.
We need to be a part of a church. A real church. A church to which we are accountable. A...
May 23, 2023
What I Learned from Tim Keller
By now, everyone seems to have tweeted and blogged about Tim Keller. (See this thread for some of the tributes and essays that have been published over the past few days.)
At the risk of over-saturation, I wanted to reflect on some of what I learned from Tim Keller’s life and ministry.
You Can Be Orthodox and a Bunch of Other Things TooYou can fill in the blank with this one. You can be orthodox and missional. You can be orthodox and reach post-Christian people in a secular society. You can be ort...
May 21, 2023
Get Wisdom (1 Kings 3)
Big Idea: Build your life on who God is, who you’re not, and what matters most: God’s wisdom.
If you could ask for and receive anything in life, what would it be?
Some people might wish for different circumstances. You may want something that you don’t have. Maybe you wish you could go back and change something in your past.
If you could ask for anything, what would it be?
The 2005 television reality show "Three Wishes" asked that question in small towns across America. Then the producers made wishe...
May 20, 2023
Saturday Links
Curated links for your weekend reading:
You Are Not Destined to Live in Quiet Times
Humanity’s third major technological revolution is leading us into a future more promising and also more dangerous than any since the dawn of history. It’s coming faster than you think.
An Attribute of God That Isn’t Discussed Enough
Christian, this is an attribute of God that ought to make you say of him, What a God! He doesn’t need us, but he delights to give himself to us through the redeeming work of his Son.
May 16, 2023
A Proverbial Life
On his 68th birthday, Kevin Kelly decided to give his kids advice. He wrote down 68 bits, one for every year he’d lived.
He posted his advice on his website, and the post was more popular than he thought. He also discovered that he had more to say, so he kept writing down more advice each year.
Recently, he compiled some of his best advice in a book called Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier. Don’t expect a normal book with chapters and a flow of thought. Expect a book of ...
May 14, 2023
David’s Confusing Finish (2 Samuel 24; 1 Chronicles 21)
Big Idea: God is wrathful, sovereign, just, and merciful.
I’ve got to be honest. Today’s passage is among the hardest that I’ve ever preached. I’m a little scared by the question and response time at the end, because this sermon may raise more questions than I have answers!
The story we’re looking at today is found twice in the Bible in 2 Samuel 24 and 1 Chronicles 21.
I want to look at it for two reasons.
First, because some of you are going to read it this week in your Bible reading, and it’s goin...
May 13, 2023
Saturday Links
Curated links for your weekend reading:
If done right, preaching never produces a conscious moment of being in the spotlight. But it will put the spotlight where it belongs – on Him whom we preach.
Discipleship Should Create a Mature Community (Not Just Individual Stars)
Discipleship quite rightly involves both the individual and the community, the player and the team, so to speak. But curiously, in our current practices, we frequently flip the proper place of each.
