I’m thankful to The Good Book Company for sponsoring the blog this week. They wanted to be certain you know about Alistair Begg’s new advent devotional Let Earth Receive Her King.
Today’s Kindle deals include at least a couple of interesting titles, plus whatever else I can dig up in the morning.
(Yesterday on the blog: The Spiritual Gift Inventory I Believe In)
The Gratitude Revolution Every Pastor Needs
This is an important word for pastors. “It is easy for me to focus on the difficult parts of pastoral ministry, the problems in the church, and the difficult church members. It takes an act of the Spirit and me yielding to the Spirit to have a reflex of gratitude. Problems are often in our faces as pastors, and we can be utterly blind at times to what we should be thankful for in our churches.”
Can a Church Require Tithing?
Can a church require its members to tithe? John Piper provides a good answer.
Listening That Hurts
“My friends might not say I’m a bad listener, but my colleagues can tell when my mind has wandered. And my family? They’d probably say my listening skills need work (mine are abysmal compared to my wife’s!). Maybe I’ve improved a little over the years, but slowing my mind down enough to give full attention is still something I have to work at.”
Ten Correctable Mistakes We Make When Preaching and Teaching
Steve Burchett lists ten mistakes we may make when preaching or teaching, each of which is easy enough to correct.
A Small Change to Help the Word Really Do Its Work
Are you interested in a small change that can help the Word really do its work in a church? Then this article is for you.
We Won’t Do Nothing for Eternity
Benjamin Gladd: “According to a recent survey, roughly 73 percent of adults in the United States believe in heaven. Drilling down further, about 60 percent believe the afterlife entails a future free of suffering where we’ll have “perfectly healthy bodies.” But I suspect the majority have thought little about what they’ll doin these bodies for all eternity.”
Flashback: The Beauty of an Heirloom Bible
I believe in the Bible as the Word of God, the divine scriptures, but also as a special object or artifact that will often outlast the one who owned it, who read it, who treasured it.
To be right with God the judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is greater.
—J.I. Packer
