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# Saturday Links
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/saturday-links-506/
- Published: 2026-07-11T05:00:54.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-11T05:00:54.000Z
- Description: Gideon's overlooked soldiers, essential advice for small churches, finding purpose in our pain, the absurdity of originality pressure, and more
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Links

Curated links for your weekend reading:

[Gideon’s 9700](https://ca.thegospelcoalition.org/article/gideons-9700/?ref=dashhouse.com)

> The titles that our English Bibles give for Judges 7 often miss the 9,700 and focus on the 300.

[I’ve Pastored Small Churches. Here’s the Advice I Needed.](https://www.logos.com/grow/min-small-church-pastoring-tips/?ref=dashhouse.com)

> What I’ve needed most—and what you need, too—is some sound advice.

[10 Purposes for Our Suffering Found in 2 Corinthians](https://www.crossway.org/articles/10-purposes-for-our-suffering-found-in-2-corinthians/?ref=dashhouse.com)

> God has purposes in our pain.

[The Pressure to Try to Be Original Is Obnoxious and Ridiculous](https://griffingooch.substack.com/p/the-pressure-to-try-to-be-original)

> Yet that constraint —the fact that we’re all stuck repeating & remixing ideas because we’re supposed to stay within the sandbox built by biblical theology— is a good thing.

[Why Writing Regularly Might Help You Get on the Right Track](https://www.zingermanscommunity.com/2026/07/why-writing-regularly-might-help-you-get-on-the-right-track/?ref=dashhouse.com)

> To say that writing has changed my life would be a significant understatement.