Saturday Links
Curated links for your weekend reading:
Heaven Remembered: Learning to Long for Home
You can learn to think well about heaven by enjoying all the good things in this life now, lifting them as high as your imagination can go, and saying, this, but better.
We live in a time when a reacquaintance with God’s blessedness could prove extremely useful for pastors and their flocks.
Do you want God? You will have God. Do you delight in God? You will enjoy God.
Packer’s Dusty Puritan Discovery Still Guides and Helps
Packer offers that the Puritans have these seven points of wisdom for present day Evangelicals.
Why Balance is Bad for Pastors
We need a new way of thinking about the relationship between family and ministry than “balance.”
How to Identify a Great Deacon
Paul doesn’t seem too interested in what potential deacons are able to do. His focus is squarely on who they must be.
I want to make the case that the Bible has been a powerful force for human dignity, human equality, and ultimately the undermining of slavery in all its forms.
My column this week at The Gospel Coalition Canada: Reading the News the Biblical Way
Revelation is the book that we need when the news is hard to read.