Saturday Links
Curated links for your weekend reading:
What Are Your Plans For This Year?
I have no plans.
And yet God…
When we encounter sanctity, we’re drawn not to the saint but to the Savior.
iPhones, Idolatry, and Evil Spirits
If Satan wanted to invent a way to steal our attention, render our awareness of God obsolete, and control the message we live by, could he do any better than the intensely addictive iPhone and the algorithms that control what we encounter?
The Pleasure That Defeats Pornography
The Bible uses fear and hope to draw us away from impurity.
The Lost Art of Preaching to the Heart
The most faithful, fruitful, and transformational kind of preaching is aimed not primarily at the head or the hands, but at the heart—what we’ll call “affectional preaching.”
Sermon Prep: Not How Long, But Where?
There will always be debates and opinions on preaching, but I’ve learned that good preaching rarely happens only in a study.