10 links to check out over the weekend…

• Are our evangelistic services a waste of time?
• 10 Lessons from Online Seminary
• What about weddings?
• Are Divorced Pastors Disqualified? (Video)
• God Uses Simple Things to Spread the Gospel
• Appoint Elders—But Not Too Quickly
• But That’s Just Your Interpretation!
• Chalcedon: A Defining Moment for the Doctrine of Christ
• What the Psalter Should Teach Us about the Songs We Sing
• “Who do I want to thank?”; Five reasons for pastors to express gratitude

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10 links to check out over the weekend…

• Praying for the Election
• Four reasons we need external partners
• The Problem of Professionalism
• Is a Multi-Site “Church” Actually Multiple Churches?
• Can a Fallen Christian Leader Ever Be Restored?
• A Visual Theology Advent Reading Calendar For Your Family
• Wayne Grudem Changes Mind About Divorce in Cases of Abuse
• Spurgeon urging men and women to be “all at it”
• 9 Things I’ve Learned in 9 Years Of Theological Education
• How to Pray for the Global Church

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10 links to check out over the weekend…

• Why Do Christians Need to Hear the Gospel Every Day?
• Take Your Medicine
• Are Christian Conferences damaging for the local church?
• For further progress, we need a new narrative
• A Pastor in Therapy
• The Lazy Pastor
• Ask Pastor Charlie – On Congregational Singing
• The Best Single-Volume Reformed Systematic Theology You’ve Never Heard Of
• The Christ of the Proverbs
• What If God Doesn’t Care a Whole Lot About How You Educate Your Children?

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10 links to check out over the weekend…

• So just let me be beside the seaside…
• Some encouraging things about FIEC conference
• Why We Need to Fight for Women, Not About Them
• Do we need to take Jesus to our urban areas?
• Sow and Sleep, Pastor. Let God Define Success.
• One of the Best Illustrations I’ve Heard in Years
• Dysfunctional Elders Make a Dysfunctional Church
• Public Worship is Discipleship
• Theological Primer: Impeccability
• Why You Should Go to Church [28 Biblical Reasons]

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10 links to check out over the weekend…

• 15 Theses on Evangelical Theology
• What Did You Do Today?
• I Went to Worship at the Metropolitan Tabernacle in the Heart of London, and I Was Not Entertained
• Medhurst Ministries: Mithering, ministry, movement…
• Manage Your Household Well: The Tragedy of Distracted Dads and Pastors
• Can we do all-age worship well?
• Jesus Loves Small, ‘Insignificant’ Places. So Should We.
• Small-Town Pastor, Preach Bespoke Sermons
• 6 Members Who Build Up the Church
• 4 Members Who Tear Down the Church

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I’ve been away this week at the Medhurst Ministries retreat for pastors and their families (which was outstanding!) so wasn’t expecting to have time to be able to post links from the last week to check out.

But as they say, plans change, so here’s a bonus edition of Latest Links and another 10 links…

• Handling encouragement in pastoral ministry
• Why I’m just not that bothered about Tom or Kanye…
• Kanye Album Review from a Pastor/Ex-rappers Perspective
• How should we respond to those who profess faith?
• Why Your Church Should Sing New Songs (Not Only Old Songs)
• Six lessons from Luther’s preaching
• Where Can Women Teach? Eight Principles for Christian Churches
• Why I Am a Protestant
• 6 Ways to Lead and Love Your Wife
• A Second Adam to the Fight…

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10 links to check out over the weekend…

• Reflections from a Lifetime in Ministry
• 6 (Non-Controversial) Ways Christians Should Deal with Disagreements about the End Times
• How do you figure out who to work with?
• The Bone-Lazy Pastor
• Ten Tips on Sermon Illustrations
• The Ironies of the Evangelical “Crisis”
• The Pastor’s One Essential Responsibility
• Give the Bible Functional Authority in Your Church
• 11 Reasons Why You Need to Belong to a Church
• Luke: Evangelist to the Rich

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10 links to check out over the weekend…

• Pastors and Song Lists
• How Tim Keller Seeks to Pray Without Ceasing
• The One Who is Love — God the Father
• Surviving the Slough of Despond
• Helping your pastor out of the Slough of Despond
• How to ensure your pastor stays in the Slough of Despond
• Just keep swimming…
• 9 Reflections on Preaching from Stephen King’s ‘On Writing’
• How to Master Any Subject by Making it Interesting
• Paula White’s new book ‘Something Greater’ is revealing, disturbing and depressing

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10 links to check out over the weekend…

• Do We Care for the Sheep or Do We Use the Sheep?
• Pastoring Is So Much More Than Preaching
• The sin of paedobaptism, why – if I am wrong – I am in sin and how we can still work together
• What if we lost charitable status?
• Writing for the Church
• Born to Rule Himself: Recovering a Lost Dream for Men
• To the Young Man Who Has Been Asked To Preach for the First Time
• The True and Better Judas Iscariot
• 5 Myths about Teaching Theology to Youth
• 3 Risks with IFB Preacher Videos

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10 links to check out over the weekend…

• Seven Prayers for Those You Love
• A tender beating…
• To the Young Man Who Has Been Asked To Preach for the First Time
• Brothers, We Are Like Mothers
• 5 Signs You’re an At-Risk Pastor
• Few American Teens Share the Gospel. Here’s How to Help Them.
• 7 Reasons Tom Schreiner (Tentatively) Holds to Amillennialism
• Adultery or Rape? What happened between David and Bathsheba?
• How should we describe David’s sin with Bathsheba?
• An Early Christmas Present

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10 links to check out over the weekend…

• Church Leadership: The Brexit Chaos Ought To Teach Us The Vital Importance Of Clarity And Certainty In Church Life
• Master’s Seminary Grad Preaches the Gospel at a Kanye West Concert
• Reflections on Ligonier London and Evangelical Conferences in general.
• Guest post: Bible college is not aimed at people like me – that needs to change
• Evangelism and dementia
• Personal Thoughts on a Pastor’s Study
• “Is This a Sin?”: Ethical Triage and Church Discipline
• Announcements at church: why do we do them? Three reasons.
• 11 Questions for Prideful Pastors (and Those Who Think They’re Not)
• The Case for Sermon-Centric Sundays

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10 links to check out over the weekend…

• What is it like to write a commentary?
• A Tale of Two Baptist Associations
• Five ways to encourage members to participate in the church
• On Being a Kwitter
• The Leader, Exercise, and 4 Ways to Keep Going
• Kanye West, Justin Bieber, and What to Make of Celebrity Conversions
• The Best New Worship Songs of the 2010s
• Gospel Ministry: What Can British Evangelicals Learn From The Revival Of Cricket This Summer?
• A Congregation of the Faithful
• Para church Organisations – the Good the Bad and the Ugly

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