Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman will soon be on the American $20 bill, so perhaps you should read this quick refresher from Christianity Today. (And, of course, there is Joe Carter’s 9 Things You Should Know about her.)
10 Reasons Pastors Must Be Prayer Warriors
Pastors, please make prayer a crucial part of your ministry. Congregations, please free your pastor from other responsibilities so he can dedicate time to prayer.
Book Tribalism
I think you’ll appreciate the challenge Jim Elliff brings in this little parable.
Drinking Deeply of the Tenderness of Christ
This video is a powerful testimony to the faithfulness of God.
Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Your Conscience
“Your conscience can function like a moral version of your nervous system. The guilt that your conscience makes you feel when you sin should lead you to turn from your sin to Jesus. That sense of guilt is for your good. And it is something that God—not your mother or father or anyone else—gave you.” (Excerpted from the new book Conscience)
Should You Use Illustrations from Movies?
Here’s one for preachers to consider.
This Day in 1897. 119 years ago today, A.W. Tozer was born. Tozer was an influential pastor in the Christian & Missionary Alliance and author of The Pursuit of God. *
Timeshares and Manipulation
Ed Welch: “They promise what I want, which is a reasonable vacation, in a nice place, where we can take our daughters and their families. Sometimes I merely want that. At those times I am in my right mind. Other times I really need it, well I almost need it. At those times I go into a hypnotic trance, induced by the voice of one who tells me everything I want to hear.”
Something Rotten in the Local Church
Lore Ferguson says, “As humans we can be tempted to respond in a few different ways to conflict within the local church. Philippians 4:1-9 has a clear pathway for how Christians walk through conflict.”
This is a very serious act of treason: when you love other things more than you love God.
—John Piper
