Darryl Dash's Blog, page 7
July 1, 2025
The Preacher's Trust
Every preacher faces a defining question when stepping into the pulpit: Where will I place my trust? This question reveals not only our understanding of ministry but also our view of God and ourselves.
The weight of self-awareness is unavoidable. We know our sins, doubts, and failures. The harsh words spoken, the impatience shown, the prayers neglected—these memories often resurface as Sunday approaches. The psalmist’s words resonate: “If you, LORD, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?” ...
June 29, 2025
Why We're Called to the Nations (Psalm 117)
Big Idea: We are called to the nations because God wants people from every cultural group to praise him because his love is great and his faithfulness endures forever.
This is the shortest psalm with the biggest message. In fact, it’s the shortest chapter in the Bible. You can read it out loud in 15 seconds or less, but make no mistake: as Derik Kidner says, it “is great in faith, and its reach is enormous... The shortest psalm proves, in fact, to be one of the most potent and most seminal.” It h...
June 28, 2025
Saturday Links
Curated links for your weekend reading:
So, You Can't Seem to Function Today
The hounds of depression, rumination, anxiety, or memories hunting you down until you spend every waking moment running from them.
You Don’t Need Another Prayer Technique
To overcome sluggishness in prayer, you don’t need another technique, you need a heart of humble dependence.
Marriage Advice I Wish I’d Learned Sooner
There are times in marriage when you should probably go to bed angry.
June 24, 2025
Making Sense of the Trinity
“The doctrine of the Trinity is difficult and perplexing to us,” wrote R.C. Sproul. No kidding! As Tim Keller once said, the doctrine of the Trinity overloads our mental circuits.
And yet it’s crucial that we understand the basics about the Trinity. For one thing, understanding what God reveals about himself is important. But the Trinity also makes a difference in how we live as Christian men.
The Trinity holds two biblical truths at the same time.
First, God is one. “Listen, Israel: The LORD our G...June 22, 2025
What Revelation's Designed to Do (Revelation 22:6-21)
Big Idea: Revelation is written to increase your confidence in God's plan, prepare you for Jesus' return, and make you long for his coming.
We’re in our 27th and final sermon through the book of Revelation. If you’ve been here all along, we’ve just spent almost 20 hours trying to understand the book of Revelation. We've examined beasts, bowls, seals, and plagues. We’ve all been stretched to understand and to deal with what we don’t understand and also see differently.
And now we have to ask: what’...
June 21, 2025
Saturday Links
Curated links for your weekend reading:
AI and the Threat of Mutually Assured Boredom
Boredom is not a problem to be solved but a signal that points us to the deeper longings of the human heart.
AI Promises a Kind of Ministry We Should Reject
AI promises efficiency and productivity, but ministry is not about efficiency, it’s about presence, relationships, and the work of the Spirit.
The truth must be applied to the personality and experience of the preacher, placing God’s d...
June 17, 2025
A Murderer and a Liar
Imagine being offered a deal that seems too good to be true. Upon investigation, you discover that the person making the offer is a convicted murderer and a habitual liar. You would back away, realizing the deal is too good to be true and the person offering it cannot be trusted. Never do business with someone who is a proven murderer and liar, especially when you could be their next target.
In John 8:44, Jesus reveals what Satan, our tempter and accuser, is really like. “He was a murderer from t...
June 14, 2025
Saturday Links
Curated links for your weekend reading:
The attraction for many young adults is precisely their churchiness—the unapologetic embrace of creeds, liturgy, and everyday embodied community.
Not My Church, but Yours, Be Built
Christ loves his church far more than we love our version of it, and that reorders every preference we carry through the doors on Sunday.
Rehabilitating Ministers: A Pastoral Imperative
The fallen pastor is not a problem to be hidden but a wounded brother to be hea...
June 10, 2025
Mastering the Art of Preaching Long and Short Passages
Preachers of sequential expository preaching often prefer specific lengths of Scripture passages. Some, like Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, delve deeply into narrow sections of text. For instance, Lloyd-Jones spent eight years delivering 232 sermons on the book of Ephesians. Beginning this series at Westminster Chapel in London in 1954, he concluded it in 1962. He preached two entire sermons on the first two words of Ephesians 2:4, and one of them is the most impactful sermon I've ever heard.
Other prea...
June 8, 2025
What's Coming in the End (Revelation 21:9-22:5)
Big Idea: We can look forward to a new beautiful and secure city that’s better than anything before and that will satisfy us forever.
What do we have to look forward to in the end?
The answer to this really matters. I’m convinced that one of our greatest problems in the Christian life is that we don’t look forward to what’s coming as much as we should. Randy Alcorn explains, “Some of Satan’s favorite lies are about Heaven… Our enemy slanders three things: God’s person, God’s people, and God’s plac...
