Saturday Links

Links for your weekend reading:

What I Wasn’t Ready for in Pastoral Ministry

Young pastors today are often cool, impressive, and popular. But the pastoral ministry that has borne eternal fruit down through the centuries has been something deeper, grander and more resilient.

10 Things You Should Know About the New Heaven and New Earth

Where will believers in Jesus spend eternity? It won’t be on a cloud or a star in some distant galaxy. It will be on the sanctified and redeemed soil of the new earth. Here are ten things you should about what eternal life will be like in the new heaven and new earth.

Book Review: The Gospel Comes with a House Key, by Rosaria Butterfield

Raw. Unvarnished. Personal. Real. These are some of the words which scrolled through my head as I put down Butterfield’s book.

9 Ways to Make Social Media More Christian

Here are nine manners for social media—five general and four specifically for Christians—that might make the internet a more human—and humane—experience.

Let Mark Dever Introduce You to Richard Sibbes

In conclusion, Dever’s new work is an outstanding introduction to the life, times, and thought of the “reforming conformist,” Richard Sibbes. It’s the best biography of “the sweet dropper of grace” available today.

Augustine, Concupiscence, and Friendship

Augustine should help us recognize that outside the garden of Eden there is no innocent sexuality, not even for good Christians in heterosexual marriages. But there is friendship, and none of us can do without it. We need to help each other in the work of mortifying our concupiscent desires — a work to which all of us together are called.