Blogs
4 Terrible Ways To Stop a Sermon
“Sermons need to start well and end even better. I am writing this post in an airplane that just landed so roughly that the lights flickered and my row-mate woke up. Bummer. I know of at least four components of a terrible, turbulent sermon landing.”
How to Make Your Non-Fiction Reading More Productive
Michael Hyatt’s method includes recording eight specific kinds of information in order to engrain key elements and to make them easy to access in the future.
Why Your Deflated Retirement Dream Might Be God’s Open Door
A new way of viewing retirement.
I’d be lying if I didn’t acknowledge that permanent, vacation-style retirement has its appeal. But God did not create me to enjoy a decades-long vacation at the end of my life—rather he created me to love him, serve him, and live out a unique calling. What vocational vision, then, has God placed within my husband and me? Who are we to be at this life stage?
How to Read John Owen
Ryan McGraw on why and how to use Owen on Hebrews realistically and profitably.
Whistleblowers: Planned Parenthood Had Dead Baby Quotas
Planned Parenthood employees reveal they were incentivized to pressure women into getting abortions to meet monthly corporate quotas. In the video from Live Action, Sue Thayer, a former Planned Parenthood manager in Storm Lake, Iowa, explained that if her center met its quota for abortion referrals, employees would be rewarded with pizza parties, paid time off, and other rewards.
And here’s Thabiti on the aim to make abortion unthinkable. He does a great job of demonstrating the parallels between abortion and slavery.
Kindle Books
The Real Face of Atheism by Ravi Zacharias $1.99.
The Mission of God’s People: A Biblical Theology of the Church’s Mission by Christopher Wright $5.99.
Held in Honor: Wisdom for Your Marriage from Voices of the Past $2.99