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January 18, 2022
Becoming an Encourager
Michael Bungay Stainer is an author and speaker who lives in Toronto. I subscribe to his email newsletter, which always ends with the same signature: “You’re awesome and you’re doing great.”
Totally corny. He really has no idea how I’m doing. And yet I find that even a somewhat generic encouragement makes me smile. We’re so starved for encouragement that we sometimes don’t mind getting it through an email blast.
I have a friend who has consistently encouraged me. I went through a h...
January 15, 2022
Saturday Links
Curated links for your weekend reading:
3 Practical Steps for Reaching the Mission Field in Your Neighborhood
Three practical steps will help you reach the mission field in your backyard.
6 Lessons for Tending Your Time
What can us schedulers learn from farmers and gardeners?
Yes, You Need to Talk to the Manager
When strivings for justice lose hope, they become weaker, not stronger.
How Charles Spurgeon Promoted Meaningful Membership
How did Spurgeon practice meaningful m...
January 11, 2022
A Personal Update
Since 2015, I’ve had the privilege of serving as director of Advance Church Planting Institute. It’s a part-time role alongside my role as pastor and planter of Liberty Grace Church in Toronto.
Advance is a training ministry of FEB Central Church Planting. In my ministry with Advance, I assess church planters, train them in an initial multi-day event, lead almost-monthly training sessions, and do some coaching.
FEB Central has some big plans for church planting. They want to plant 300 ...
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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