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A Better Debate About Alcohol, Imperfect Worship Services, & Young Evangelicals' Two Temptations
Wisdom for Your Weekend: Your regular installment of what we've been reading (and watching) from around the web. We gather the best and leave out the rest.
Disordered Anger Comes from Disordered Loves
We have an angry society, don’t we? If you doubt it, just turn on the talk shows at night—any of them. The issues change by the day, but the anger doesn’t. People seem queued up and ready to be angry—in the classroom, at work, on Twitter, and (as always) on the freeway. Paul’s words in Ephesians seem timelier than ever.
Healing the Wounds of Shame
People around us are suffering, often profoundly, usually silently. We should desire to be churches where people who are not OK can find Jesus in loving community. The road to healing from shame begins as we speak it. As you come out of the shadows and speak it, you’ll hear the voice of the Savior and Shepherd saying, “My daughter! My son!” And his declaration will begin to heal those wounds.
Why You Need Silence, How to Run a Good Meeting, & What to Do After the Election
Wisdom for Your Weekend: Your regular installment of what we've been reading (and watching) from around the web. We gather the best and leave out the rest.
A Gift Far Greater Than Money
When we were first challenged to give financially to the church through messages at the Summit five years ago, we both felt this undeniable and simultaneous nudge to finally start giving. So we made a commitment to give. And then we did what came naturally to us: We gave nothing.
How to Escape Addiction to Anxiety
Isn’t it strange how addictive anxiety can be? It’s almost as if we sense that by devoting energy to anxiety we are somehow doing something about whatever we are worried about. But if you’ve struggled with anxiety at all, you know that on its own, anxiety only offers false solutions, false promises, and false predictions.
Unhitching from the Old Testament, the Bizarre State of Evangelical Theology, & a Christian Approach to Politics
Wisdom for Your Weekend: Your regular installment of what we've been reading (and watching) from around the web. We gather the best and leave out the rest.
1st Generation Faith in the 2nd Generation
The first generation of a movement does whatever it takes. They expect personal sacrifice. But the second generation does only what’s asked of them. They don’t expect sacrifice, but comfort. I really believe that this season is paramount for our church. The premise of FIRST is ultimately about the Lordship of Jesus. God saves sinners so that they will say, "Jesus is Lord."
How to Be Angry Like Jesus
There are good ways and bad ways to deal with anger, and hindsight too often seems to be the key to knowing the difference. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t look back and wish they could take something back they said or did in anger. The best way to know the difference good and bad anger is to follow the example of Christ.
In Memory of Eugene Peterson, What Pastors Don't Have to Do, & the Bookish Life,
Wisdom for Your Weekend: Your regular installment of what we've been reading (and watching) from around the web. We gather the best and leave out the rest.
About J.D. Greear
J.D. Greear is the pastor of The Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham, NC and author of several books including Gaining by Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches That Send.