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# Saturday Links
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/saturday-links-457/
- Published: 2025-08-02T09:00:47.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-02T09:00:47.000Z
- Description: Urgent vs. important, humor's guardrails, hope for habit strugglers, and more
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Links

Curated links for your weekend reading:

[Urgent](https://susanlafferty.com/2025/07/27/urgent/?ref=dashhouse.com)

> Your greatest danger is letting the urgent things crowd out the important.

[What Is Success?](https://www.jenoshman.com/jen-oshman-blog/2025/7/30/what-is-success?ref=dashhouse.com)

> Success in ministry is abiding. Success in ministry is faithfulness to Jesus Christ. Success in ministry is persevering to the very end.

[Practical Christian Guardrails for Humor and Joking](https://africa.thegospelcoalition.org/article/practical-christian-guardrails-for-humour-and-joking/?ref=dashhouse.com)

> Here are two areas to be wary of to keep our humour from being destructive to the soul.

[Read books, Not AI Summaries](https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/read-books-not-ai-summaries/?ref=dashhouse.com)

> If the next generation outsources reading to AI and, in the process, loses the capacity to decipher long-form text, what will that mean for biblical literacy and spiritual formation?

[What is the Gospel? A Surprisingly Contested Question](https://www.logos.com/grow/hall-what-is-the-gospel-prophet-priest-king/?ref=dashhouse.com)

> My argument is that the gospel is a prophetic message involving a priestly mechanism with a kingly goal; namely, the arrival of God’s kingdom.

[Why We Must Be Gospel-Centered](https://ca.thegospelcoalition.org/article/why-we-must-be-gospel-centered/?ref=dashhouse.com)

> The good news that Jesus died and rose again for sinners isn’t just a message we preach once and move on from.

[Preaching Expectations](https://www.feedingonchrist.com/blog/post/preaching-expectations?ref=dashhouse.com)

> Low expectations become self-fulfilling.

[What’s Going on in Your Pastor’s Mind?](https://www.challies.com/articles/whats-going-on-in-your-pastors-mind/?ref=dashhouse.com)

> If you have ever wondered what is going on in your pastor’s mind while he delivers his sermon, here are a few different possibilities—a few different options that may be playing on his second track.

[Hope for Christians Who Struggle With Habits](https://www.gospelforlife.com/hope-for-christians-who-are-bad-at-habits/?ref=dashhouse.com)

> Spiritual growth doesn't require natural habit-forming abilities.

My column this week at [The Gospel Coalition Canada](https://go.dashhouse.com/straightpaths?ref=dashhouse.com): [Criticism Is Part of Ministry](https://ca.thegospelcoalition.org/columns/straight-paths/criticism-is-part-of-ministry/?ref=dashhouse.com)

> Ministry involves suffering and misunderstanding, but it is still worth it despite the pain.