Saturday Links
Curated links for your weekend reading:
Reevaluating Your Church’s Values
While we’ve been emphasizing initial decisions, numeric growth, and “worship experiences,” we’ve likely been missing out on communicating what God ultimately values — which isn’t success so much as faithfulness.
How Would Paul Use a Church Directory? He’d Look for Grace on Every Page.
Let me offer another outlet for your creative insights about the church. Pull out your church directory and notice God’s grace in predestination, regeneration, justification, sanctification, and glorification.
Bilingual Preaching and Teaching
To be truly effective as a preacher or teacher, I’m convinced you must become bilingual — fluent in two languages. The two languages a preacher must speak fluently are grace and truth.
Men of God (old and young), are we setting an example for other believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, and in purity?
There’s not only a benefit in reading great stories but in writing them.
My column this week at The Gospel Coalition Canada: What I Learned Last Year
We often learn best in periods of adversity.
Here is some of what I’ve been learning or relearning over the past year.
