10 links to check out over the weekend…

• Loneliness Limits Ministry: Why Pastors Need Good Friends
• There Ain’t Nothing Like A Friend
• Maintain a Good Relationship with Christians from Other Churches
• A 10 Question Catechism for One-on-One Pastoral Care
• This Week’s Free eBook: ‘Finding the Right Hills to Die On’
• Jesus Was Also Baptized
• Spirit-Led, Relational Leadership
• The Humbling To-Do List
• Prayer and the Ministry of the Word
• Men are from Mars (Hill):Reflections on Ep 4

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10 links to check out over the weekend…

• Evangelism isn’t complicated; you don’t need another course
• Jeremy Marshall agrees with me that we know the gospel and we already have all we need for evangelism
• Why evangelism is almost uniquely difficult – Part 1
• Thoughts on Ep3 of The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill
• Mark Driscoll, Mars Hill and the Lessons still being Learned
• What the New Testament Church Prayed For
• Plagiarizing and Quoting in Preaching
• Justice: The Foundation of a Christian Approach to Abuse
• Reflections – signs things aren’t right
• A Gentle Discussion on Pastors Staying and Leaving

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10 links to check out over the weekend…

• When It Comes to Abuse, It Takes a Village
• Pirate’s Code: Plagiarism & Preachers, 6 Guidelines
• The Scandal of Pulpit Plagiarism
• Who killed Mars Hill? Perhaps Jesus did, and a good thing too.
• Pastoral Lessons from Mars Hill Podcast Series
• If our church planting model isn’t producing good fruit we need to think again
• Guest post: What I learnt from ‘the most toxic by-election in history
• Considering a Call
• Youth Ministry and the Means of Grace
• An Exhortation to Partake of the Lord’s Supper

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10 links to check out over the weekend…

• Can Christians now remain in the Methodist Church?
• Methodism: ‘an alien place for conservative evangelicals’
• A Time to Speak Up
• The Allure of Convenience
• Ten Thoughts About Personalities
• 10 Reasons to Read the Bible Aloud in Church
• Pray for Other Members
• Equipping the Saints
• Communication’s Two Catastrophic Cousins
• This Week’s Free eBook: ‘12 Faithful Women’

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10 links to check out over the weekend…

• Crossway+ Special: All Ebooks and Audiobooks for $4.99
• This Week’s Free eBook: ‘Blind Spots’
• Pastoral Advice Worth Repeating – Invest in Your Ministry Friends
• Preachers Gotta Preach
• 30 Reasons Why It Is a Great Thing to Be a Pastor
• 20 Reflections from 20 Years as a Pastor
• The Theology of Ageing
• 21 Things Pastors Did During COVID I Want To Thank Them For
• What Can We Learn About Prayer From The Life Of Jesus?
• A Meditation from Dane Ortlund on Psalm 42

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10 links to check out over the weekend…

• This Week’s Free eBook: ‘Identity Theft’
• Go & Tell | Come & See
• What is Woke?
• What is biblical self-care?
• Fruitfulness and Usefulness
• Share God’s Big Promise with Your Kids through this Free Audiobook
• 4 Ways to Be a Welcoming Church to Special-Needs Families
• Fighting atrophy
• The New Mercies of Morning Devotions
• The 6 Burnout Triggers

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10 links to check out over the weekend…

• Savor Each Sunday Service
• On Pastoring, Shepherding, & Loving
• Know your sheep
• Pocket Guide to Pastoral Visitation
• The MacArthur Center for Expository Preaching
• Resources for Memorizing Scripture
• FREE EBOOK Remember Death: The Surprising Path to Living Hope
• Think Small for Big Improvements in Preaching
• You Never Finish a Sermon
• Assumptions we make when church is going well

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10 links to check out over the weekend…

• An interview with Dr. Robert Smith Jnr.
• 1776 and the Origin Story of the Post-Christian West
• Are small groups overated, unaccountable and ineffective and should we bother with them?
• Senior Adult, You Are Loved and Needed
• This Week’s Free eBook: ‘Evangelism as Exiles’
• Solving the ‘80% Full’ Problem
• Pastor, Be One In A Thousand
• A New Paradigm For Pastors
• Be Careful About Calling Somebody a Heretic
• Little Screens and Corporate Worship

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10 links to check out over the weekend…

• Coronavirus: Leading Our Churches Out Of Lockdown And Into The New Normal
• 11 Things to Consider When Coming Out of Lockdown
• Should you keep your live stream after lock down restrictions lift?
• Why Our Church Will Unplug from Streaming
• Why Our Church Will Keep the Livestream
• The Subtle Sin of Prayerlessness
• Many unchurched people are actually envious of church. Here’s why.
• Simple But Useful Tips for Pastors to Make Good First Impressions with Church Guests
• Church Membership: Loving What Jesus Loves
• What You Should Expect of Your Pastors & Elders

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10 links to check out over the weekend…

• Lessons to unlearn
• A lesson to learn
• An Essential Part of Planning Your Preaching
• It’s Only A Church Service
• In the Name of Jesus
• How to Pray for Your Child’s Salvation
• Fit for What? The Spiritual Habit of Physical Exercise
• 7 Good Thoughts, 1 Ultimate Thought
• Cross-training for Pastors (and Everyone Else)
• The importance of presence and physically blessing our communities

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10 links to check out over the weekend…

• How to Die Well
• Come Home, Weary Wanderer
• The Fear of Death and God’s Grip
• Pastors, Fight Against Fear of Man by Fighting for the Fear of the Lord
• Leaders Who Know How to Follow
• 11 Characteristics of Church Leaders I’d Like to Imitate
• 5 Ways to Not Become a Corrupted Leader
• How Old Should ‘Elders’ Be? The Hebrew Roots of Church Leadership
• 6 Sins that Enable Abuse
• Twelve Rules for Loftus

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10 links to check out over the weekend…

• Rest and Renewal: Sabbaticals for Pastors
• A Cold Take on Deconversion (from Josh Harris’s Brother)
• Helping the Congregation to Hear the Word Read
• Praying for the Weary Pastor
• 35 Reasons Not To Sin
• Three good reminders about the church when we take a break
• Can We Have Communion with the Trinity?
• Guarding the Flock
• Where is the love?
• Emerging from the Ice Age

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