Saturday Links
Curated links for your weekend reading:
The Gospel Coalition 2020 Book Awards
Congratulations to the winners of our The Gospel Coalition 2020 Book Awards.
It’s fun to listen to a book closely rather than skimming for highlights you can tweet or blog about. Reading should be pleasurable, and slow reading is, for me anyway, the way I get the most pleasure from it.
How a Former Radical Sparked the New Calvinist Movement
“If we try to take short cuts, to do ministry and to provide seeming relevance to our culture, we’re not doing them or us any favors, because what we need is a bigger vision of God and his holiness and his Word.”
The Biggest Threat Faced by the Church
Tyranny is always a danger, but tyranny is not the biggest threat faced by the church in the U.S. or any other nation.
Why Biblical Theology Is Needed for Preaching and Teaching
Biblical theology provides a map to help us understand the overall unity of the Bible and identify a central message to the Bible, rather than just a bunch of unrelated stories and themes.
What to Pray Before You Preach
In this article, I’m going to give you some ideas to pray for your sermon, some from me and some from other preachers.
Balanced Principles from Luther’s “Whether One May Flee From A Deadly Plague”
I decided to read and study Luther’s article myself. As I suspected, on this subject Luther spoke with much more balance than his modern admirers often reflect in their quotes from him.
Do Christians engage in incarnational ministry? not exactly.
My column this week at The Gospel Coalition Canada: When Scripture’s Teaching on Sex Seems Implausible
Let’s work to show that the Christian view of sex is both plausible and beautiful in our own churches and beyond.
