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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
Links for your weekend reading:
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
Fro...
December 6, 2018
An Aged Saint, Glorifying and Enjoying God
I’ve been thinking of this sentence ever since I read it. In a recent article, Ray Ortlund says this of his father: “An aged saint, glorifying and enjoying God, is a beautiful sight to behold.”
I can’t get this out of my mind.
An Aged SaintI’m 51 now. I’m not exactly aged, but I’m not young either. I’m noticing that people become more of who they are as they get older. You either become a crank, or you become someone who is more tender towards God. I don’t see a lot of in between.
Here’s wha...
December 4, 2018
What Matters Most
On November 26, Joe Boyachek died at age 42 after a battle with cancer. Joe pastored Richview Baptist Church in Etobicoke, a church that I pastored for 13 years before him.
Joe’s wife Heather has written about their lives these past few months on her blog. I’ve been humbled to read it.
This past Sunday, I returned to Richview to preach on the first Sunday after his passing. I don’t usually post my sermons this way — I save that for a different section — but I decided to post it today in place...
December 1, 2018
Saturday Links
Links for your weekend reading:
“You don’t go to church you ARE the church” … but ARE you?
You can’t stay away from regular gathering with the church and claim to be part of the Church.
8 Principles To Consider Before Leaving A Church You (Used To) Love
Leaving a church is hard. Don’t make it harder by doing it badly.
3 Goals — and 3 Enemies — in Church Planting
We enter into a church plant or pastoral ministry with a dream in mind. But do we have an equally clear set of goals for who we are...
November 29, 2018
Top Quotes and Takeaways From Preaching to a Post-Everything World
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.
I posted a review of Preaching to a Post-Everything World earlier this week. Here are some of the top quotes and takeaways from this book.
Top Ten QuotesWe’ve dreamt of making a difference. But what if differences are made by remembering where we’d be without God and then ministering to others out of that knowledge? What if preaching requires something prior to...
