Saturday Links

Links for your weekend reading:

Love the Church More than its Health

This is an implicit danger for all of us who have learned much from God-given books and conferences and ministries about “healthy churches.” We start loving the idea of a healthy church more than the church God has placed us in.

Links for your weekend reading:

Love the Church More than its Health

This is an implicit danger for all of us who have learned much from God-given books and conferences and ministries about “healthy churches.” We start loving the idea of a healthy church more than the church God has placed us in.

The Dangerous Divide Between Theology and Practicality

An unnecessary divide between theology and methodology is unwise.

Why Knowing Your Flock Is Critical for Meaningful Preaching

There are a host of reasons why it is important for pastors who want to preach meaningfully to know their flocks as well as they can, but here are three of the most important.

Watch 6,000 Years of Urbanization in 3 Minutes

Max Galka at Metrocosm has taken the most comprehensive dataset on cities and made it come alive in a new video.

Why Even Driving Through Suburbia Is Soul Crushing

It’s telling that we have no widespread cultural vernacular for why classical urban settlements, which draw on millennia of intellectual background and corpuses of architectural knowledge, are pleasant.