Saturday Links
Curated links for your weekend reading:
If done right, preaching never produces a conscious moment of being in the spotlight. But it will put the spotlight where it belongs – on Him whom we preach.
Discipleship Should Create a Mature Community (Not Just Individual Stars)
Discipleship quite rightly involves both the individual and the community, the player and the team, so to speak. But curiously, in our current practices, we frequently flip the proper place of each.
Four Reasons Why Your Church Needs Interns
You do not want to miss out on the riches that overflow from a valued group of interns.
Potential Dangers of ‘Applying Scripture to My Life’
My main concern with the language of “application” is that it can carry faulty — and harmful — assumptions about how we approach Scripture. Here are three.
There's nothing you need to learn, or do, right now, other than be curious.
My column this week at The Gospel Coalition Canada: Give Them What They Can’t Get Anywhere Else
They can find better music, better public speakers, and more advanced technology elsewhere. They don’t need more of that.