> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.dashhouse.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# Saturday Links
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/saturday-links-467/
- Published: 2025-10-11T09:00:38.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-11T09:00:38.000Z
- Description: Criticism in ministry, preaching the word, importance of deacons, identifying scrupulosity, private communion with God, delight in church monotony, and more
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Links

Curated links for your weekend reading:

[Take It on the Chin](https://www.jvfesko.com/blog/2025/10/5/take-it-on-the-chin?ref=dashhouse.com)

> If you’re a pastor and find yourself under the fire of criticism, then you’re in good company.

[A Brief Theology of Preaching](https://feedpress.me/link/10439/17181426/a-brief-theology-of-preaching?ref=dashhouse.com)

> The primary task of the Church and of the Christian minister is the preaching of the Word of God.

[Have We Sold Church Short on Deacons?](https://new-northern-souls.blogspot.com/2025/09/have-we-sold-church-short-on-deacons.html?ref=dashhouse.com)

> The Bible is clear that work of deacons is vital to the health and smooth-running of the church, but in recent years there has been such a focus on developing word ministry in the church, it may be that we have sown the seeds of the practical failure of many churches for lack of deacons.

[How Ministers Can Identify Scrupulosity](https://newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/how-ministers-can-identify-scrupulosity?ref=dashhouse.com)

> Roughly 2% of the population suffers from OCD, and many people who are religious find that their OCD attaches itself to their faith, because the general rule of OCD is that it always attacks what you value most!

[A Ministry Made in Secret: the Spiritual Habits of Robert Murray M’cheyne](http://rss.desiringgod.org/link/10732/17181304/a-ministry-made-in-secret?ref=dashhouse.com)

> Private communion with God fueled a public ministry that had unusual power and attraction.

[A Song on God’s Delight in Church Monotony](https://entrustedtothedirt.com/2025/10/08/a-song-on-gods-delight-in-church-monotony/?ref=dashhouse.com)

> Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged.