Saturday Links

Curated links for your weekend reading:

Podcast: I enjoyed talking to Reagan Rose about making time on the Gospel for Life podcast.

Beware the Sin of City Planners and Pastors

Your job isn’t just to bring God to these people. Your job is to recognize how God is already moving among them. The ministry doesn’t need your plans as much as it needs your attentiveness and your support.

The Ministry of Being a Little Bit Further Along

What most people need and long for as they face trials and encounter questions is simply the dedicated attention of someone who is a little bit further along.

Apologetic Approaches to Biblical Sexuality

We must put the Christian sex ethic into a counter-narrative, one based on the Bible’s great story of redemption. And in order to do that, we must face three challenges.

Integrity and the Future of the Church

If people reject the church because they reject Jesus and the gospel, we should be saddened but not surprised. But what happens when people reject the church because they think we reject Jesus and the gospel?

Church Planting: A Practical Overview

Through planting churches myself, and working with church planters all across the world, I’ve developed a series of 10 thresholds that every church planter needs to accomplish in order to plant a biblical, faithful, sustainable church.

My column this week at The Gospel Coalition Canada: The Relevance Trap

There’s no way we can minimize the strangeness of what we believe or the strangeness of what we do as believers.