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July 7, 2018
Saturday Links
Links for your weekend reading:
Why Following Your Heart Can’t Make You Happy
We are often told to look into our hearts and to follow our dreams in order to find happiness and peace, meaning and fulfillment. And yet, the truth could not be further from this idea.
How to Make the Most of Your Daily Bible Reading
Here are five ways to make the most of your daily Bible reading.
A (Not So) Revolutionary Strategy for Great Quiet Times
Here are three reasons why mere faithfulness works.
July 5, 2018
Book Launch Party
You’re invited to a book launch party for How to Grow: Applying the Gospel to ALL of Life.
Come and enjoy good food and music, and get a copy of Darryl’s new book.
The book comes out on August 7, but the party takes place on Wednesday, September 12 from 7 to 9 PM at Liberty Grace Church, 25 Liberty Street, Toronto. We’d love to see you there.
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Pain Drove Me to It
I’m an achiever. I wake up every day thinking about the things I need to accomplish for the day to be productive.
A few years ago, crisis interrupted. Because of the pain, I changed my routine. Instead of rushing off to exercise or work after breakfast, Charlene and I would sit together on the couch and drink coffee for as long as it took. I had no choice. Suffering pushed us together.
It was hard for me not to rush off. I love my wife, and I enjoy spending time with her. But I felt the weigh...
July 3, 2018
The Common Rule: An Interview With Justin Whitmel Earley
A month or so ago, my wife pointed me to a website called The Common Rule. I was fascinated by what I read there, especially since we explore the role of a rule of life at Gospel for Life and in my upcoming book.
[image error]I contacted the Justin Whitmel Earley, the person behind the website, and he was kind enough to answer some of my questions. Justin lives in Richmond, VA with his wife, Lauren, and his three (soon to be four!) sons Whit, Asher and Colt. He is a corporate lawyer and a writer. His fict...
June 30, 2018
Saturday Links
Links for your weekend reading:
Feed the Sheep – No Matter How Many Are In the Pasture
Study, pray, and preach with all the strength that you have, to the glory of God – no matter how many people are in the room.
Three Reasons to Include a Concise Summary of the Gospel in Every Sermon
I’m talking about inserting, somewhere in your sermon, a short explanation of the main truths about who Jesus is and what he has done (in perhaps 4-6 minutes), along with an exhortation to repent and believe....
June 28, 2018
Top Quotes and Takeaways From 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.
I posted a review of Preaching?: Simple Teaching on Simply Preaching by Alec Motyer earlier this week. Here are some of the top quotes and takeaways from his book.
Top Ten QuotesNot everyone can be what people call a ‘good preacher’, but no one need be a ‘bad preacher’. (Kindle Location 88)
God’s method of church growth is preaching the Word, watered by believin...
June 26, 2018
Preaching?: Simple Teaching on Simply Preaching
I’m not saying that all my early sermons were bad. I should have spent more time under a wise mentor, though: someone to lead me through the early years of ministry, to show me the routines, and to give me feedback so I could do better. I knew the principles; I lacked exposure to the principles applied.
Although no book can replace a mentor, Preaching? by Alec Motyer comes close. Motyer, now deceased, was a preacher, teacher, and scholar. I’ve admired his scholarship, particularly his transla...
June 23, 2018
Saturday Links
Links for your weekend reading:
5 Ways to Thrive in a Transient Church
How can we not grow wearing of doing good in a transient church? Here are five strategies I’ve learned from others in my church.
Specific Ways You Can Pray for Your Pastor
To have an insatiable hunger for God’s Word. To feed regularly & be filled joyfully from communing with God in His Word. To love his wife selflessly, sacrificially, and with a tender, servant’s heart…
June 21, 2018
Two Kinds of Pastors
There are lots of bad ways to pastor, and one counter-intuitive good way.
It’s tempting to pastor without a robust set of convictions. It’s easy to pastor while keeping an eye out for increasing one’s Twitter followers. It’s tempting to want to create a name for ourselves outside of our local church. So many things come easily that shouldn’t: appealing to the lowest common denominator, preaching to the podcast rather than the people in the pews, rushing through the week without adequately fee...
June 19, 2018
The No-Hype Truth About Church Planting
Stephen Kneale seems to have touched a nerve last week. In his excellent blog Building Jerusalem, he wrote:
I am increasingly dubious of our use of the term ‘church planter’. I am, in fact, inclined to go so far as to say there is no such thing as a church planter…
I understand why the term is applied to those who have been sent off as leaders of core teams to establish new churches. But once you have sent a group of people, established regular meetings at which the Word is being faithfully...
