Your weekly installment of things we’ve been reading around the web.
Video of the Week
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Articles of the Week
Craziest Statistic You’ll Read About North American Missions, Abby Stocker. What is keeping non-Christians from coming to faith in Christ? It just might be that they don’t know a single Christian at all.
10-Step Progression for Restoring Broken Trust, Brad Hambrick. “Movement through this progression will be a dance between your spouse’s efforts at change and your willingness to take relational risks. The dance may not be one step by your spouse followed by one step by you. Unless both of you are moving you’re not dancing.”
The Myth of Passion, Michael Kelley. We all know the feeling of losing a previously strong passion. After all, passion is something that just “happens” to us, and it often leaves as mysteriously as it comes. We fall in love; we fall out of love. We love our job; then we lose our interest and hate our job. At least, that’s how the myth goes. But passion isn’t like the flu; it doesn’t just happen. It can be fed or it can be starved.
8 Email Mistakes You (Probably) Make, Tim Challies. “I have put a lot of time and thought into the best email practices and have identified 8 dumb email mistakes you may be making (which is to say, 8 dumb email mistakes I have found myself making). Many of these mistakes apply to everyone, though some apply primarily to those of us who tend to sit at a desk most of the day.”
The Truth About Pro-Life Christians, Kristin Rudolph. Praise God that Christians are leading the way in caring for vulnerable women and children. May more and more of us live out the full implications of our pro-life convictions.
