Saturday Links

Curated links for your weekend reading:

Three Things That Make Temptation Flee

When I turn my eyes to the cross, I see the great sacrifice of God.

Seven Truths to Help You Prepare for Suffering

If the only thing we know absolutely, positively for sure about our future is that we are going to suffer and then die, we should prepare for that!

When You Push Past Your Limits Instead of Trusting God - Staci Eastin

When we ignore sleep and rest in the name of productivity, rather than doing our best and leaving the results to God.

What Comes After Expressive Individualism?

Keller wondered whether the next phase of our culture would be a strange hybrid: expressive individualism blended with group-based identity politics.

5 Ways Pastors Can Grow in Their Preaching

Mere training cannot compensate for absence of gifting, but we all have a responsibility to “fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you” (2 Tim. 1:6)—to nourish, exercise, and develop it—so that our ministry can become increasingly effective and bring glory to God.

Should Struggling Christians Abstain from Communion?

Is calling Christians to a private self-audit before the Lord’s Supper, or encouraging them to abstain if their consciences are unsettled, a valid application of Paul’s teaching?

Bring Your Pastoral Regrets to God

Most every week I’m seeing, hearing, or learning something that I might do differently or better or not even at all if I returned as a lead pastor. These insights sometimes lead to regrets.