Darryl Dash's Blog, page 36
June 10, 2023
Saturday Links
Curated links for your weekend reading:
What to Know Before Serving as a Missionary in Canada
Canada is beautiful, but Canada is in desperate need of Jesus. We need people from inside and outside the country to take their role as missionaries seriously.
My Joy Depends on My Circumstances
While unbelievers hope for happiness from the world, believers hope for happiness in the world as they enjoy God’s good gifts with grateful hearts.
We’re Commanded to Love Our Neighbors, Not to Make Them Feel Loved
Ch...
June 6, 2023
The Inefficient Church
Seth Godin has an agenda. He wants you to do work that “can’t be automated, mechanized, or outsourced.” In other words, he wants to push you toward work that matters created by people who care.
“Tools can create efficiency,” he writes in his new book The Song of Significance, “but value can only come from … humanity, and the rare form of connection that comes from significance.”
It’s messy work, inefficient work, sometimes slow work, but also important and glorious work: work that slows down enoug...
June 4, 2023
Echo of Love (Song of Solomon)
Big Idea: Praise God for the gift of passion that’s an echo of an even greater love.
One of the most uncomfortable moments I’ve ever had is at a conference a few years ago in Florida. A married couple was leading music. The male music leader turned to the female music leader, his wife, and read a passage of Scripture.
She blushed. We all felt uncomfortable. What part of the Bible could make thousands of people cringe? The male music leader read from a particularly erotic section of the Old Testame...
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.
