Saturday Links

Links for your weekend reading:

Forget The Extras – Your Church Needs To Get The Basics Right

Your church might not have the budget or the staff to do the extras, but that’s okay. You can do what matters.

An Open Letter to the Preacher Writing a Sermon

I want you to keep on preparing and preaching sermons, with an unshakeable confidence in the grace which often comes slowly.

Church Planters Are Stewards, Not Owners

Church-planting pastors are most dangerous to their flock when they act like owners.

4 Lessons I Learned About Pastoral Ministry from Francis Schaeffer

I gleaned a lot about how to deal with others from his letters, and here now I’ll point out four lessons from the book. These lessons are particularly relevant for those in pastoral ministry.

Don’t Use 1 Corinthians 13:8 to Argue for Cessationism

The arguments for cessationism from 1 Corinthians 13:8–10 aren’t exegetically convincing for a number of reasons.

Spend Thirty Minutes in Heaven

Pray, read, meditate, pray, read, meditate, pray, read, meditate, until your heart is affected and stirred.