Saturday Links
Curated links for your weekend reading:
The Weighted Vest of Pastoral Ministry
This is what pastoral ministry is like. It’s like living with a weighted vest on. All the time. And every now and then, usually on Sundays, someone slips an extra weight in there.
Pastoral or Academic Ministry? How a Pastor-Theologian Can Balance Two Loves
There’s a spectrum of valid ways a pastor-theologian’s dual love may be expressed.
I love Sundays, and here are five reasons why I think you should love Sundays too.
Mental Illness and Church Discipline
How might we bring together our understanding of mental illness and church discipline?
Through the Valley: 8 Lessons from Job about Suffering and Comfort
I want to highlight eight lessons about grief and comfort from the book of Job.
Resisting Physician-Assisted Death Is a Gospel Imperative
Physician-assisted death is held up as a solution to the problem of suffering; at bottom, it’s a solution to despair. And the solution is to end the person who’s in despair.
We know a better way.
My column this week at The Gospel Coalition Canada: An Underrated Ecclesiastical Virtue
I’ve grown in my appreciation of an underrated ministerial and ecclesiastical virtue: humility.
