10 links to check out over the weekend…

• PARRESIA | 1689 CHAPTER 1
• Training
• What is Independent Church Ministry?
• How Should A Lay Christian Learn Theology?
• H. Spurgeon on ‘top-down’ evangelism
• Pastor, Your Body Keeps the Score
• Fisherman or Fishermen? Considering the Church’s Corporate Mission
• Church-Planting Pitfalls (Part One)
• Church-Planting Pitfalls (Part Two)
• The Weightier Weight

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10 links to check out over the weekend…

• The 10,000 Hour Rule in the Christian Life
• If You Use Your Phone as an Alarm Clock
• 17 things to pray for Church Children
• Harry’s Mistake
• More application please
• 5 Pointers for the Discouraged Preacher
• Help for Those Beginning to Read the Bible
• 10 Ways for Every Pastor to Be More Relational
• The kind of team everyone enjoys working with
• Pastor-Theologians

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10 links to check out over the weekend…

• Keep your head
• Please Stay
• A Word to the Weary Pastor
• Gentle Leaders
• Ignore the Noise and Shepherd the Flock Among You
• 4 Principles for Raising Up Elders
• Your Eschatology Has Consequences
• 4 Predictions for the Post-Pandemic Church 
• What Does a Pastor Do?
• The courage of Christ

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10 links to check out over the weekend…

• Life Beyond Lockdown
• She needs help failing in order to serve in your church
• Whilst we’re talking about culture…
• Whilst we’re still talking about church culture…
• The Ministry of Fear
• Pastors, platforms and pedestals
• The Great Leadership Challenge of 2021
• 6 Things Elders’ Wives Wish You Knew
• In defence of acquaintances and casual friendship for community
• A Tool for Reading the Bible Devotionally

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10 links to check out over the weekend…

• Leadership Is Having the Right Phone Book
• Dear Twitter, I’m Leaving You for My Wife
• Leading in Prayer
• Go Outside Your ‘tribe’
• Should Your Church Turn Off the Live-Stream When COVID is Over?
• Pastors, Train Future Pastors
• An Indispensable Habit to Leading
• The Great Pastoral Challenge of 2021
• Is there anything that can be done in an independent church when there is a toxic eldership?
• The Tip of the Iceberg – There are only six ways for senior leaders to react to the Jonathan Fletcher report. Three of them are deadly, and two more are unwise. 

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10 links to check out over the weekend…

• Spiritual Dynamics in Abuse Scandals
• Spiritual Abuse: The Independent Review Into The Shocking Abuse Perpetrated By Rev Jonathan Fletcher Draws Important Lessons For All Our Churches & Organisations
• Spiritual Abuse: Personal Reflections On The Statement Made To The EMA 2019 About The Abusive Behaviour Of Jonathan Fletcher
• Jesus washed his disciples’ feet: the disciples of abusers wash their cars
• Talented Pastors and the Plurality Principle
• A Catechism on Brotherly Kindness
• An Autopsy of The YRR Movement
• What the Scottish Government’s defeat on church worship tells us
• Pray for Your Pastor’s Wife
• FTC Preaching Guide: 1 Peter

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10 links to check out over the weekend…

• More Than Influencers
• Depression slays the idol of productivity
• How long is too long?
• Church & Culture: The Harry & Meghan Interview Reveals The Deep Generational Divide In Contemporary Society
• The Privilege of an Evening Walk
• Not Born Ready: Why Jesus Went to High-Priest Training School
• Pastor, Preach to the People in the Room
• Right and Wrong Pastoral Ambitions
• Sermon Prep: Why Do You Spend So Much Time on It?
• Caring for Souls in a Pandemic

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10 links to check out over the weekend…

• FIEC: Ninety-Nine Years And Counting
• Cultural Christians and Christianised Culture
• How Will COVID Permanently Change Churches?
• Why Reformed Evangelicalism Has Splintered: Four Approaches to Race, Politics, and Gender
• Children in Worship
• A Tale of Two Liturgies
• Running evangelistic courses on Zoom
• When an elder is accused
• 12 Rules for Navigating the Internet Intentionally
• Encouraging female evangelists

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10 links to check out over the weekend…

• Online cries of the wounded
• How to spot a toxic leader
• The Shepherds Who Are Sheep
• Burnout and the minister
• Not Gathering with the Church Hurts You Spiritually
• Might now be the time for a proper audit?
• Don’t despise transfer growth
• So Many Great Books
• The Work Of The Spirit In Preaching
• To My Son on His Twenty-First Birthday

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10 links to check out over the weekend…

• Should Young Pastors Prefer a Large or Small Church?
• How can we better share our faith?
• A radical solution to the greatest inequality
• For When the Saints Come Marching in
• Baptists and Preaching: Lessons from Sprague’s Annals of the American Baptist Pulpit
• What do people pick up from your ministry? or It ain’t what you preach it’s the way that you preach it
• The Power and Perils of being Dispassionate
• FTC Preaching Guide: 2 Corinthians
• Why I’m Mostly Quoting Dead Guys These Days
• Pastors Are Paid to Stare Out the Window

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10 links to check out over the weekend…

• The Gospel Animated: The Greatest News in the World in 2 Minutes
• And all the people said… [inaudible mumble]
• 3 Questions for your friends
• The greatest inequality is a lack of gospel preaching churches
• Women Are Not the Problem
• Ravi Zacharias is Amnon — Who Are You In The Story?
• But his books are still good, right? – 5 things Christians must stop saying about sexual abusers
• Ravi Zacharias’ abuse & a message to the UK Church
• ‘You Are One Step Away from Complete and Total Insanity’
• Carl, Ravi and the God of 1Samuel

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10 links to check out over the weekend…

• Are You Ready for Evangelism?
• How Long to Prepare a Sermon?
• Four reasons I binned all my quotes for preaching
• Church Small Talk Was More Important Than I Thought
• Clerical bullying and spiritual abuse: Are they the same thing?
• When Majority Cultures Co-opt Minorities’ Self-Theologising
• The Quiet Time v The Daily Office – spirituality and formation
• Ten Names, Twenty Attributes
• Worshiping the Infinite and Intimate God
• Fragile

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