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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...
September 25, 2018
The Glory of Preaching
Some books provide a comprehensive guide to preaching. Others specialize in one aspect of homiletics. The Glory of Preaching does a little of both, but it aims to do more: to remind us of what’s really happening when we someone stands up to preach. In short, it's a theology of preaching applied.
Whenever 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 agai...
September 22, 2018
Saturday Links
Links for your weekend reading:
Why Millennials ARE Coming to Church
There have been plenty of articles about why Millennials – those twenty somethings – are not coming to church.
Well, in our church at the moment plenty of Millennials ARE coming.
Reflecting on the Rewards and Risks of Going on the StartUp Business Podcast, Part 1
‘Fascinating’ and ‘terrifying’ are the words that come to mind when I think about my experience of being recorded for days on end.
September 20, 2018
On Marketing a Book
It’s been a tricky time for me. My book How to Grow came out on August 7. (See how I just promoted my book?) It’s my first time marketing a book, and like many authors I’ve struggled with the process.
A recent tweet by Justin Taylor captures my dilemma.
Tweet by Justin TaylorThe quote-tweet response of gratitude to a compliment is just as bad as retweeting a compliment. pic.twitter.com/rURYk1rbP8
— Justin Taylor (@between2worlds) September 18, 2018
When is marketing okay? And when do we...
September 18, 2018
Gay Girl, Good God
It’s hard to have a discussion about the Christian view of sex these days. Christians have always held to a different set of beliefs and practices around sex compared to culture. In the past, many considered Christians to hold the more moral view. Now the Christian view is seen as intolerant and immoral against gay people and other sexual minorities.
Even within the church, any consensus that may have existed around sex has long disappeared. My Facebook feed informs me of ministry colleagues...
