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# Saturday Links
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/saturday-links-371/
- Published: 2023-12-02T10:00:04.000Z
- Updated: 2023-12-02T10:00:03.000Z
- Description: The fight that gets inside of you, sermon planning for the new year, deep breathing, and more
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Links

Curated links for your weekend reading:

[Hearing the Heart in Bad Theology](https://go.dashhouse.com/JuLJ?ref=dashhouse.com)

> We can be wise and faithful counselors by recognizing that bad theology can reveal our counselee’s heart and then ask questions to better understand.

[How to Get Ahead on Sermon Planning for the New Year](https://go.dashhouse.com/JqX-?ref=dashhouse.com)

> As you prepare for the new year, here are a few sermon planning ideas that may help you get a head start on sermon preparation.

[It’s About What’s in the Text](https://go.dashhouse.com/JtJJ?ref=dashhouse.com)

> We are aiming to understanding *this* text, seeking to understanding what the author wanted to convey. Unless we are basing our interpretation of *this* text in *this* text we will run into problems.

[Jesus Was Not Born in a Stable—and It Really Matters!](https://go.dashhouse.com/JuLA?ref=dashhouse.com)

> In the Christmas story, Jesus is not sad and lonely, some distance away in the stable, needing our sympathy.  
> Rather, he is in the midst of the family, and all the visiting relations, right in the thick of it and demanding our attention.

[I’m Never More Christ-Dependent Than When I’m Doing Deep Breathing Exercises](https://go.dashhouse.com/JuLV?ref=dashhouse.com)

> Bodily interventions—interventions designed to address the fact that God created us as embodied-souls—are sacred interventions.

My column this week at [The Gospel Coalition Canada](https://go.dashhouse.com/straightpaths?ref=dashhouse.com): [The Reverse-Thread Bolts of Ministry](https://go.dashhouse.com/JtJW?ref=dashhouse.com)

> God often works the opposite way that we think.