Saturday Links
Links for your weekend reading:
On Feeling Like a Failure and the Power of Affirming Words
As expressions of God’s relentless pursuit in each other’s lives, we want to convey, “I see you, and I see God working in, around, through, and for you.”
3 Reasons to Stay in a Church That’s Not Cool Enough
I’d like to argue for three reasons to do the very countercultural thing of actually staying in the church that’s simply not cool enough.
Fauxnerability in the Church: What Is It? What Do We Do About It?
This is what increasingly frightens me – the epidemic of fauxnerability – pastors (and many others) who are emotionally intelligent enough to share a general “messiness” about their lives, but who are radically out of touch with their true selves.
10 Things You Should Know About Suffering
- Suffering is a result of the fall.
- God uses suffering for good.
- We can’t always see what God is doing in our pain…
It Is Possible to Be a Feminist and Be Prolife
Both men and women should be free to affirm certain platforms of the feminist movement without affirming others.
5 Factors To Remember When Powering Down
It has become the norm for many in ministry to be plugged in 24/7. So how do we keep ourselves from becoming a tragic statistic?