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January 5, 2019
Saturday Links
Links for your weekend reading:
4 Big Challenges Facing the Church in the West Today
The biggest challenges we face today are not from tyrannical regimes or oppressive governments. They are more subtle—proclivities and inclinations smuggled into our churches alongside the cultural sensibilities we’ve inherited.
Holy Boldness is Needed in Hostile Climates
What are Christians to do in hostile climates and with cultural topics where orthodox Bible believing values are seen as an invitation to a...
January 3, 2019
Uninterruptible Day
Last year I found myself overcommitted. I routinely worked into the evenings and weekends to try to get everything done.
One thing helped to restore sanity to my schedule. It’s probably the most helpful action I took last year. I started scheduling an Uninterruptible Day.
Tiger TimeI work in a small church without a lot of administrative help. I also work quarter-time in training church planters. I face more demands than I have time.
I’d often get asked if I was free for a meeting, or I woul...
December 29, 2018
Saturday Links
Links for your weekend reading:
Skip Resolutions in 2019 — Make a Rule of Life
This year, skip resolutions—make a Rule of Life instead.
4 Mistakes That Will Sabotage Your New Year’s Resolutions
Why do we find it so difficult to keep our resolutions? Part of the reason, I’m convinced, involves some strategic blunders.
Merry Christmas, Pastor, and Don’t Lose Heart
Appropriate all year long:
Keep fighting the good fight, reverend. Keep your hand to the plow. Keep sowing that seed. Don’t lose hea...
December 22, 2018
Saturday Links
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Since 2007 Mez McConnell has been senior pastor of Niddrie Community Church in Edinburgh, Scotland. Here are edited excerpts of our interview in front of students at Patrick Henry College.
Don’t Reap to the Edge of Your Field
We live in a margin-less world. This isn’t how we were meant to live. It’s certainly not how we should live if we expect the Lord to bring gospel-oriented opportunities into our lives.
December 20, 2018
Top Quotes and Takeaways From On Preaching
As part of A Year of Books on Preaching, I’m posting a review a month of a preaching book, and then a list of quotes and takeaways.
[image error]I posted a review of On Preaching earlier this week. Here are some of the top quotes and takeaways from this book.
Top Ten QuotesThere are three kinds of preachers: the ones you can listen to, the ones you cannot listen to, and the ones you must listen to. I desire to be the kind of preacher that you must listen to. But that requires more than desire. It requir...
December 18, 2018
On Preaching
I’ve spent the past year reading books on preaching. I’ll be honest: it’s easy to get overwhelmed. Every single book has been excellent, but every book gives more steps to take, more actions to complete. It can leave the reader exhausted rather than encouraged.
[image error]I’m glad I picked On Preaching by H.B. Charles, Jr. as the final book. Charles is an accomplished preacher, but he doesn’t write the book as an expert but as a fellow struggler. I didn’t read the book feeling chided. I read the book th...
December 15, 2018
Saturday Links
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Top Books and Stories
Lots of good book lists this week: TGC Book Awards, CT Book Awards, The 2018 FTC Book Awards, as well as favorite picks from Kevin DeYoung and Trevin Wax
If you want to set goals for reading in 2019, Tim Challies and Trillia Newbell both have plans.
Collin Hansen has listed his top theology stories from 2018.
The Desperation that is Pastoral Ministry
If you don’t have a sense of desperation you might not be fully engaged in your role as pa...
December 13, 2018
Favorite Resources of 2018
On Tuesday I listed my favorite books of 2018. Now it’s time to list some of my favorite resources — blogs, podcasts, and other resources — that I’ve enjoyed in the past year.
Favorite BlogsIf you want to know all the blogs I follow, you can download this OPML file. If I were to cut back to my favorites, here are the ones I’d choose.
Challies — Tim earns top spot for quality and consistency. His daily A La Carte is a daily roundup of some of the best posts each day. Desiring God — The quali...December 11, 2018
Favorite Books of 2018
It’s the time of year that people post their favorite books of the year. Russell Moore, Jared Wilson, and Tony Reinke have already posted theirs.
Here are my twelve favorite reads from the past year, beginning with Christian books and moving toward business and other books. Some were published this year, but some are older.
Susie: The Life and Legacy of Susannah Spurgeon, wife of Charles H. SpurgeonI’ve long been a fan of Charles Spurgeon, the famous preacher of 19th-century London. But I’v...
December 8, 2018
Saturday Links
Links for your weekend reading:
Routine Bible Reading Can Change Your Life
This is an ordinary routine, yes, but ordinary routines can change your life.
I Didn’t Go to the Church Prayer Meeting and It Was Absolutely the Right Decision
There was one overarching reason that caused me to stay home tonight: the good of my wife.
The New York Times recently reported that it’s a new day for weddings. Welcome to the shift from matrimony to marriage.
Favorite Books of 2018
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