Darryl Dash's Blog, page 70
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
Curated links for your weekend reading:
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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March 21, 2020
Saturday Links
Curated links for your weekend reading:
The Dis-Embodiment of Community
The rise of technology, social media, and individualism has also brought about another reality: the concept of participating in community by online means.
Its a wonderful gift for a time such as this. And I hate it.
How to Preach to an Empty Room
Here are some thoughts that Im keeping in mind as I preach for video. I hope theyll be of help to other preachers.
How to Get Through This Stronger Than Ever
When we get through...
March 17, 2020
Pastoring Through a Pandemic
Im concerned for pastors in this COVID-19 crisis. Pastors arent the only ones Im concerned about. Im praying for all kinds of people right now. The list is endless. But I am concerned about pastors.
David McLemore captured my concern in a Twitter thread:
Today after our online service, our lead pastor shared with our community group about how hes feeling the effects of decision fatigue (basically his brain is weary from having to decide so many things so quickly.) In a time like this
David...
March 14, 2020
Saturday Links
Curated links for your weekend reading:
Love in the Time of Coronavirus
How will we move the horizons of possibility, not just for those we directly lead, but for our whole culture, in the time of coronavirus?
God Made Sex, and His Rules Are Good
God cares who we sleep with because he cares deeply about the people who are doing the sleeping. He cares because sex was his idea, not ours.
Five Ways to Lead Your Kids to Ditch the Church
Regardless of what the specific figures happen to be, there...
March 10, 2020
Shaping Church Culture
My definition of church culture is simple. It’s whatever has been celebrated or tolerated so long within a church that it shapes the behavior and values of everyone within the church, usually without their awareness.
Few things scare me more as a pastor.
If you’re the pastor of an established church, you’re inheriting an existing culture. Your job is to celebrate what’s good about the existing church culture and to begin to confront the areas of that church’s culture that are unbiblical. Be...
