My gratitude goes to The Good Book Company for sponsoring the blog this week. They want to ensure you know about the new book The Soul-Winning Church by J.A. Medders and Doug Logan Jr.
Today’s Kindle deals include a collection of interesting titles.
Westminster Books is offering a discount on a book of prayers you may find helpful (and an additional discount if you buy the other two volumes in the set).
(Yesterday on the blog: The Thing That Would Make Everything Okay Forever)
The Marvelous Mundane: Embracing the Slow Work of God
“Seasons of routine, monotony, and uncertainty can cause us to question. Is this what I’m called to? Should I be doing something else or continuing down this familiar path? Sometimes, God uses our restlessness to awaken us. We should be doing something different. God is moving us on and using this uncertainty to get us to where we need to be. But in other cases, wisdom dictates that we stay and plod away. Yet we might still wonder, Is God working?“
Prevent Dechurching: 3 Critical Questions Your Church Should Ask
The authors of the recent study on dechurching offer three questions churches should be asking today.
We Have To Understand Different People
There is a sense in which this is obvious but it is still worth thinking about: whether we are pastors or not, we need to learn how to understand different people.
Packing Up Boxes is Easier Than Packing Away Memories
Andy Stearns: “I’ve often thought about running the race in the context of resisting temptation to sin. Or facing persecution and remaining faithful to the end. But now I see another way we must all run the race. Sorrow is yet one more path that Christians must trod as they follow their savior.”
Needed: An Army of Mary/Marthas
Peter Mead reflects on the well-known story of Mary and Martha and says we need an army of both types.
4 Reasons You Might Think the Bible Is Boring
If you are finding the Bible boring, it says more about you than it does about the Bible. Mitch Chase offers four reasons you may find it boring (and tells what to do about it).
Flashback: What’s the Purpose of … Marriage?
The highest purpose of marriage is to display to the world the sacrificial love of Christ for his bride, the church.
If you carefully watch yourselves, you will find that failure in temptation is always preceded by some permitted evil, which took place perhaps days before.
—F.B. Meyer
