Saturday Links

Workshop: I took some training with Stu McLaren a few years back, and it was excellent. If you’ve ever thought of developing a membership site, you may be interested in some training he’s offering. (affiliate link)
Curated links for your weekend reading:
The 10,000 Hour Rule in the Christian Life
Whether or not you think the 10,000 Hour Rule is true or false, there’s no question that committing to hard work, engaging in deliberate practice, and getting a head start makes a difference.
Pastors, Stop Competing and Start Hanging Out
The problem of competing churches begins with the pastors, not the people. The solution also starts with the pastors. And it’s simple: Hang out and get to know each other. Become friends.
10 Ways for Every Pastor to Be More Relational
Here are several practical actions to help leaders be relational and build the kind of authentic community that makes leadership personally fulfilling.
How Hyperbole Dulls Our Spiritual Discernment
By all means let us continue to be passionate for the truth and to use rhetoric and hyperbole when it is appropriate.
But let us also lower the temperature so that we don’t attack others with rhetoric and hyperbole that will embarrass us on the last day.
The new April 2021 issue of Themelios has 256 pages of editorials, articles, and book reviews.
My column this week at The Gospel Coalition Canada: The First Implication of the Gospel
Jesus has established unity between previously divided factions. Our job is to maintain it.
