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October 20, 2018
Saturday Links
Links for your weekend reading:
Forget The Extras – Your Church Needs To Get The Basics Right
Your church might not have the budget or the staff to do the extras, but that’s okay. You can do what matters.
An Open Letter to the Preacher Writing a Sermon
I want you to keep on preparing and preaching sermons, with an unshakeable confidence in the grace which often comes slowly.
Church Planters Are Stewards, Not Owners
Church-planting pastors are most dangerous to their flock when they act like o...
October 18, 2018
Integrative Preaching: An Interview With Kent Anderson
I spent 12 hours on a plane on Tuesday, so I had time to plow into Kenton Anderson’s book Integrative Preaching: A Comprehensive Model for Transformational Proclamation. I’ll post a review next week, but I’ll just say here: I’ve never read another preaching book quite like it. I think it’s going to help a lot of preachers do a better job in proclaiming God’s Word.
Kent was kind enough to allow me to interview him about this book.
[image error] Why did you write this book?
This is the culmination of 25 year...
October 16, 2018
The Public Reading of Scripture
It may be one of the most disobeyed commands in Scripture: “Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching” (1 Timothy 4:13). We do pretty well with the exhortation and teaching parts, but I’m concerned by how little attention we give to the public reading of Scripture.
Surprisingly, many mainline churches read Scripture more than evangelical ones. Their furniture highlights this priority: they devote a reading stand for this sole purpose. They f...
October 13, 2018
Saturday Links
Links for your weekend reading:
John Frame’s 9-Point Checklist for Evaluating Theological Writings
Theologian John Frame sets forth the criteria he uses—and tries to avoid—when evaluating theological writings.
Does Your Church Offer Weak Community?
What do you do if membership at your church is on the wane? Or what if membership doesn’t seem to be growing at the desired rate?
Four Ways to Love a Disappointing Church
Let me suggest a few ways you can hold up your end of the bargain and contrib...
October 11, 2018
Make Time
It may be a sign of my own insanity that I keep buying and reading productivity books. If they helped, I wouldn’t need to read another; if they don’t help, then I should have stopped reading them. But here I am again with another book, hoping it will make the difference.
[image error]The book is Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day. The attraction is that it’s written by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky, authors of Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days, a book tha...
October 9, 2018
I Have Family Everywhere
God willing, by the time this post goes live, I will be on my way to Beirut. I’ve been checking articles on Lonely Planet and Wikipedia, which is what I guess people do these days before they travel. I’ve learned a little about the place I’m about to visit, but you never really know a place until you’ve been there.
One thing I know that a travel guide will never tell me: I have family everywhere.
Family EverywhereI first experienced this as a child. My parents had separated. My father moved...
October 6, 2018
Saturday Links
Links for your weekend reading:
A 10-Point Social Media Strategy
Ligon Duncan — Chancellor and CEO of Reformed Theological Seminary, as well as the John E. Richards Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology at RTS — recently shared his social media strategy.
Why God’s Love Is Better than “Unconditional”
When you look closely, God’s love is very different from “unconditional positive regard,” the seedbed of contemporary notions of unconditional love.
October 2, 2018
Why Spurgeon Changed His View on Sermon Helps
C.H. Spurgeon, the renowned British preacher of the 19th century, spoke harsh words against the overuse of sermon helps.
When a man named Jabez Burns released Two Hundred Sketches and Outlines of Sermons, Spurgeon was ambivalent. “We do not altogether deprecate the use of other men’s outlines,” he said, “for every now and then a preacher may be hardly driven for time, or he may feel mentally incapable of new thought, or he may be a mere beginner and unable to arrange his matter.” But he didn’...
September 29, 2018
Saturday Links
Links for your weekend reading:
The Big God Behind Your ‘Small’ Ministry
Most of us will spend our whole lives living in days of small things. How do we navigate this space between what we see and what we want to see? How can we cultivate hearts that don’t despise these days, but rejoice in them?
God Didn’t Call Someone Else to Preach to Your Church
In his infinite wisdom, God has chosen you to shepherd your church. If he wanted someone else, he’d have called someone else.
Church...
September 27, 2018
Top Quotes and Takeaways From The Glory of Preaching
[image error]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 The Glory of Preaching earlier this week. Here are some of the top quotes and takeaways from this book.
Top Ten QuotesWhenever a human being, Bible in hand, stands up before a group of other human beings, invites the gathered assembly into a particular text of the Bible and as faithfully as possible tries to say again what the living God is...
