Darryl Dash's Blog, page 68
April 25, 2020
Saturday Links
Curated links for your weekend reading:
Strategies for Winter: Redemptive Leadership in Survival Times
For leaders of organizations in any of these categories, your focus now should be to survive the winter by building for the ice age.
Lessons From Monastic Life For Quarantine
Cloistered life is blessed when its regulated. We need a rhythm and structure to our day.
The Pressure on Pastors During Covid-19
Pastors are dealing with a lot of pressure right now, and many of the pressures today are...
April 21, 2020
Living Like We’re Not in Control
Char and I lived through the death of a dream lately. Something big didnt turn out the way we always thought it would.
Heres the crazy part. Its almost like we expected things to turn out the way wed hoped. We imagined the future, and then considered ourselves entitled to what wed dreamed.
We do this all the time. I catch myself thinking about what it will be like to write my next book, to move into our next building as a church, to pay off our mortgage, to retire, to grow old with my wife....
April 18, 2020
Saturday Links
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Since these traits are so crucial, it seems good and right for the pastor to pray diligently about each of them. To that end, Ive prepared a prayer guide for pastors that suggests some ways a pastor can pray that he would exemplify these traits.
Will the Churchs Digital Wave Continue after the Coronavirus?
In this season of isolation, lets not forget that we long for gathering, for in-person contact, because we were created...
April 14, 2020
What Church Can Be: An Optimistic Vision (With Blueprints)
Its important to learn biblical truth, but its even more valuable to see biblical truth lived out. We need more than principles; we need examples.
Im grateful for books on church planting and pastoral ministry, and Ive learned a lot from them. Some books lean toward the truth side; theyre helpful because theyre timeless. Some books lean toward the application side; theyre helpful because theyre practical. What we really need, though, is both.
[image error]In other words, we need a book like What Church...
April 11, 2020
Saturday Links
Curated links for your weekend reading:
Why Missing Church Should Feel Like Missing Family
Maybe in this season of quarantine we should ask if missing our church feels like missing family. If it does, how can we further develop that culture of siblings? If it doesnt, how might we change things once we emerge from these days of isolation?
Do We Really Want to Go Back to Normal?
Lets not go back to normal. Lets come away from this challenge with a new vision of what normal could be.
April 7, 2020
A Couple of Ministry Updates
A couple of quick ministry updates.
[image error] How to Grow is FreeFirst: my book How to Grow: Applying the Gospel to ALL of Your Life is available for free as an ebook until Friday.
Please pick up a copy for yourself, and share the news with others. Moody is also giving away other great books, so pick up the others too, and keep checking every week to pick up new ones.
The ebook version of How to Grow: Applying the Gospel to ALL of Your Life is free this week. Get your copy...April 4, 2020
Saturday Links
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If you are suddenly videoing yourself, dont act like youve got the full production studio working behind you. Just be normal.
I Didnt Know I Loved You Like This
Oh church, I didnt know I loved you like this. Perhaps that is the gift of our isolation.
Discipleship Is Not Consumer-Friendly
By shifting the focus away from the fixed point of Jesus to the...
March 31, 2020
Give Me More Than Tips
Right about now Im getting tired of the kind of blog posts I wrote just a short while ago. Sure, its good to know how to respond to a crisis, and the practical steps we need to take. These posts have their place, but they arent enough to get us through these next weeks.
Give me something more substantial. Remind me about Jesus.
I thought of this as I purchased Dane Ortlunds new book Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers. We need books like that right now. If were...
March 28, 2020
Saturday Links
Curated links for your weekend reading:
How the World Worshipped on One of the Most Unusual Sundays in Church History
The following galleries show how the world worshipped at home on one of the most unusual Sundays in all of church history.
Pastor, You Were Made for This
There is no hand-wringing in heaven. He chose you to lead your church at this time. So walk humbly. And take courage. You were made for this.
To Stream, or Not to Stream: Considering Sundays in Seclusion
The question of...
March 24, 2020
Living By Default
Three vastly different, powerful forces converged in my life the first month.
The first is a challenge to read the Bible in 40 days, along with others at our church. The first hour or so of the day, I immerse myself in Scriptures. I knew it would be challenging to read at this pace, but I underestimated how much I would enjoy it, how often I would make connections Ive never made before, how much the Scripture would seep into my mind and change the way I see things.
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