Sometimes the look back on the week is a highlight of the many articles and blogs I read that hit me just right. Other times, there are themes that run between different posts, and it’s the theme that merits mention. This week (and stretching into last) is the latter.
First common topic, pastoring:
- Eugene Cho asks if being a pastor is hazardous to your health?
- Politics Daily notes that pastor burnout is a growing concern.
- While Phil Monroe asks if we, as congregants, are to blame?
- Rick Warren gives three challenges to ministry via his Ministry Toolbox.
- I just discovered this blog by Rick Howerton on leading small groups that I’ve totally fallen in love with. I couldn’t pick just one post to link, they’re all worth checking out.
- Ron Edmonson shares some secrets of senior pastors.
- A helpful aggregate of “how-to” pastoring by Scott Couchenour.
Meanwhile, living our faith in the public square is worth greater discussion.
- First, Perry Noble is hosting a series at his church on evangelism. Amen to that, and I pray it catches his brothers’ and sisters’ hearts on fire. You can tell he’s amped about the subject (just check out his tweets!) but here he is after last Sunday’s service leading in and after he concluded the series looking back.
- Bradley Moore asks if it’s taboo to talk about our faith at work?
- Brett McCracken laments at Relevant Magazine that many have lost sight of Jesus in the name of Social Justice.
- Meanwhile he writes (busy guy) in the Wall Street Journal about the perils of ‘Wannabe Cool’ Christianity. (thanks Michael Hyatt for the link!)
- Anne Lang Bundy ponders the difference between being “in” the World but not “of” the world.
- While Joel J Miller looks back at history (with help from C.S. Lewis) to see how the Church can be compromised by culture and that we’re not that different from those who we oppose.
Many thanks to my Twitter community, without whom I wouldn’t have found many of these posts. Hope you enjoy and that they challenge your faith and your status quo.
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