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# Saturday Links
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/saturday-links-72/
- Published: 2018-01-06T10:00:59.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:24:37.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Links, #DashHouseCom, #wp

Links for your weekend reading:

[Things I Wish I’d Known: Reflections on 40 Years in Ministry](https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/things-wish-id-known-reflections-40-years-ministry/?ref=dashhouse.com)

> God has graciously sustained me through 40 years in paid ministry.

> During that time I have been active in, or responsible for, a number of church plants — some successful and others not so much. Now is as good a time as any to reflect on what I’ve learned.

[Recalibrate: 10 Steps Every Church Must Take This Year, Or Be Dead In A Decade](http://www.christianitytoday.com/karl-vaters/2018/january/recalibrate-10-steps-church-this-year-dead-decade.html?paging=off&ref=dashhouse.com)

> Local congregations must reinforce the following 10 principles. And the sooner we get to work on them, the better.

[3 Reasons You Shouldn’t Say ’Reading the Bible Is Easy’](https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevin-wax/3-reasons-shouldnt-say-reading-bible-easy/?ref=dashhouse.com)

> Bible reading is a transformative experience. So let’s keep encouraging people to get into the Bible. But let’s make sure they know how difficult, demanding, and extraordinarily rewarding it will be.

[4 Problems with Downplaying God’s Wrath](https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/4-problems-downplaying-divine-wrath/?ref=dashhouse.com)

> The doctrine of divine wrath is an integral piece of the gospel message, and therefore, moving away from it will inevitably have far-reaching consequences for the church’s faith and life.

[An Incredible Invitation From the Creator of the Universe](https://theblazingcenter.com/2018/01/incredible-invitation-creator-universe.html?ref=dashhouse.com)

> Really? God wants me to be asking him for things all the time? He’s not too busy running the universe to hear my petty requests? I mean, I’m dust. Does he really want me to keep coming to him all the time with my needs and desires?

[When Abortion Suddenly Stopped Making Sense](http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430152/abortion-roe-v-wade-unborn-children-women-feminism-march-life?ref=dashhouse.com)

> At the time of the Roe v. Wade decision, I was a college student — an anti-war, mother-earth, feminist, hippie college student. That particular January I was taking a semester off, living in the D.C. area and volunteering at the feminist “underground newspaper” Off Our Backs. As you’d guess, I was strongly in favor of legalizing abortion…

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