It’s still 2022. Yes, it is. We have a while before we’re done with this level, erm, I mean, year.
Today’s Top Pick:
Four Ways the Church Can Welcome Kids with Special Needs
This is a very good read, and one that is near and dear to my heart, as I have a special needs child.
Green Text Messages in iMessages Nudges Teens to Use iPhones
This is really interesting read, something that I would not have thought about. Even when you read this focusing on teens, you can look up other articles and see that it is much wider than the younger generations. Before reading these, I would have never through.
70 Years At The Same Church
“Pastor Vernon Lyons is my wife’s grandfather. In 1951, he planted a church in Ashburn, a neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. And until this year, for nearly seven decades, he faithfully pastored that church.”
I have one word to describe this read: Wow.
Charles Spurgeon and Meaningful Membership
“If you’ve ever heard the story of Spurgeon’s life and ministry, you’ve probably heard something about all the sermons he preached, the books he published, the orphanages he started, the Pastors’ College he ran, and on and on. But we tend to overlook that, more than anything else, Spurgeon was a pastor. He wasn’t primarily a Christian speaker or CEO-at-large. No, he pastored a local church. And as a Baptist, one of his fundamental convictions was that churches should only be made up of born-again believers.”
When the Tyranny of the Urgent Invades Missions
“My concern is that we’re living at a time in global missions today where the gospel and faithful ministry are threatened by the tyranny of the urgent. We’ve often sacrificed the important for the immediate, the best for the most pressing. Over the last few decades, as our focus has been on reaching the unreached and finishing the task, we’ve increasingly prioritized rapid reproduction, with a programmatic and results-driven focus that looks more like Western capitalism and business franchising than genuine Christlike servanthood and faithful stewardship.”
