Saturday Links
Curated links for your weekend reading:
In each set of issues, you can see why the stakes are so high and why the emotions run even higher. So what are Christians to do?
Whataboutism Is a Mark of Foolishness
As the world grows in foolishness, believers in Jesus need to be intentional about cultivating healthier, slower, more balanced (and largely offline) habits of knowledge formation.
Something Profound in Our Generation
Every hybrid form of “Christianity” deserves to die, and it will die, because it simply is not of God. But here is a pathway back into the prophetic power of apostolic Christianity.
As difficult as it might be to interpret and preach through tricky passages, there are tremendous benefits for our churches.
The Greatest Christians and the Most Visible Gifts
In God’s economy earnestness counts for more than eloquence, obedience for more than acclaim, submission for more than any measure of visible success.
What We’ve Lost by Over-Sexualizing Male Friendship
Men used to freely show love and kindness to one another because that is what friends did. Today, that openness seems utterly lost because it seems to mark a sexual advance.
Baking Bread as an Act of Hope
Whether it’s the scent of rising bread, or whether it’s freshly tilled earth, exhaust from a mended engine, sweet-smelling cedar shavings or the pungency of oil paints — let’s fill our homes with these scents of promise, of tending today and looking to tomorrow.
My column this week at The Gospel Coalition Canada: Shepherd the Flock of God That Is Among You
The crazier this world gets, the more we need pastors who pastor their churches well.
