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January 8, 2022
Saturday Links
Curated links for your weekend reading:
Pastoring the City and Handling a Hostile Culture
Tim Keller on coming to Christ, learning to love the city, and assessing how the Church is responding to shifting cultural pressures
Endangered Attention: How to Guard a Precious Gift
How then can we steward our limited, precious, endangered attention?
“One Anothers” I Can’t Find in the New Testament
The beautiful “one another” commands of the New Testament are famous. But it is also strik...
January 4, 2022
A Student’s Guide to Gaming
I’m not a gamer. But I understand the attraction: today’s games are meant to get you hooked. I talk to enough gamers to know that it’s not hard to spend hours gaming. Add the social element of multiplayer games and you have a compelling draw. The video game industry is now worth more than the Hollywood film industry.
Gaming is a discipleship issue, and yet many of us don’t know how to address it.
In his book Track: Gaming: A Student’s Guide to Gaming, Reagan Rose describes some possibl...
January 1, 2022
Saturday Links
Happy New Year! May God richly bless you in the coming year.
8 Habits Challenge: I’d like to invite you to join me in an 8 Habits Challenge to start 2022. The cost is $10. Registration closes tomorrow.
9 Tips to Read More This Coming Year
Whatever your reading goal, these tips can probably help you finish more books this year than last.
Build Spiritual Habits in Just a Few Minutes
Who has time to read a chapter in the Bible? Write in a prayer journal? Memorize a verse?
My frien...
December 25, 2021
Saturday Links
Merry Christmas! May God richly bless you as we celebrate the birth of our Savior.
This will be my last post of the year. I’m taking next week off writing and blogging.
I’d like to invite you to join me in an 8 Habits Challenge to start 2022.
Podcast: I enjoyed talking to Rusty McKie about how to build a rule of life in the Gospel for Life podcast.
Curated links for your weekend reading:
When the Supreme Somebody Became Nobody
He became as much of an earthly servant as he had b...
December 21, 2021
What Was on Jesus’ Mind at Christmas?
Hebrews 10:5-7 is a different kind of Christmas passage. It says:
Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said,
“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,
but a body have you prepared for me;
in burnt offerings and sin offerings
you have taken no pleasure.
Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,
as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’ ”
The writer to the Hebrews is quoting from Psalm 40:6-8, a Davidic psalm. Saul went through the motions in servi...
December 17, 2021
Saturday Links
Curated links for your weekend reading:
More Book Lists
Christianity Today’s 2022 Book Awards, as well as top picks from Kevin DeYoung and Aaron Armstrong.
My Top 10 Theology Stories of 2021
I present my latest foolhardy attempt to discern the top theology stories of 2021.
Ten (Very Different) Church Trends for 2022
Worship attendance will average 80% of pre-COVID numbers.Neighborhood churches will become a movement…
The Great Challenge of Every Marriage
Marriage makes u...
December 14, 2021
Top Posts of 2021
Here, in order of traffic from highest to lowest, are a couple of lists of the top posts I’ve written over the past year.
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Top Posts at DashHousePick a book from the Hebrew Scriptures, a book from the New Testament, and a dead person. Spend the rest of your life going de...
December 11, 2021
Saturday Links
Curated links for your weekend reading:
Podcast: I enjoyed talking to Nathan Oates about his book Stability: How an Ancient Monastic Practice Can Restore Our Relationships, Churches, and Communities on the Gospel for Life podcast.
Best Books of 2021
2021 For the Church Book Awards, plus picks from the TGC Editorial Staff, Trevin Wax, Jared C. Wilson, David Qaoud, and Reagan Rose.
The new December 2021 issue of Themelios has 257 pages of editorials, articles, and boo...
December 7, 2021
Best Books of 2021
I’m continually amazed by the quality of books I get to read.
Books represent somebody’s best thinking, edited by a team of professionals, and packaged and delivered to us. At the cost of a few dollars and a few hours, we get to access the best of someone’s thinking.
Here, in descending order, are the best new books I’ve read that were published this year (with Amazon affiliate links).
1. The Death of Porn: Men of Integrity Building a World of Nobility by Ray Ortlund
Porn is one ...
December 4, 2021
Saturday Links
Curated links for your weekend reading:
The Gospel Coalition 2021 Book Awards
Congratulations to the winners of The Gospel Coalition 2021 Book Awards.
Struggling with Doubt? Here are 5 Important Truths to Remember
How do we handle these doubts when they come? Or, how do we help others who admit they are struggling with what they believe?
Harshness toward lost sheep and gentleness toward predators are equally devastating to the church.
