Top Posts for May 2013

In case you missed them, here are the posts that generated the most traffic in the last month:

  1. 21 Skills of Great Preachers
  2. Bring our Child Home from Ethiopia & Serve a Widow
  3. My Notes from Preach Better Sermons
  4. Be Sensitive on Mother’s Day
  5. 15 Ways to Improve Your Marriage
  6. Is Love a Choice or a Feeling (And Why it Matters)
  7. 8 Ways to Know Your Reading is Too Limited
  8. How a Wife Handles Her Husband’s Sexual Addiction
  9. My Notes from Preach the Word 2013
  10. 3 Things Make a Sermon Great

Links I Like

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  1. Tim Challies on Thinking biblically about CJ Mahaney and sovereign grace ministries. This is a great article on how to think biblically when someone has been wronged or there is disagreements in a church. 
  2. 8 ways to raise kids biblically in a pornified culture.
  3. Aimee Byrd on The UFC and femininity. This is just an extension of “men and women are created equal and not different” line of thinking as opposed to a more biblical approach “men and women are equal but different”. Not sure why anyone is surprised that women are now competing in UFC.
  4. Kevin DeYoung on What someone should say about homosexuality and the Bible.
  5. Ed Stetzer on 5 ways not to be an arrogant pastor.
  6. 6 ways to preach with passion.

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Links I Like

Links I Like is a collection of blogs, articles and books I’ve come across recently and thought they were worth sharing. Click here for past Links I Like
  1. Download a FREE album from The Gray Heavens. Check out an interview with the band here.
  2. Tom Ascol on Being a pastor and handling confidential stuff.
  3. 50 shades of porn and the growing number of women drawn to porn.
  4. Dan McCarthy on What we can learn from the worse CEO’s of 2012. Fascinating leadership reading.
  5. A play by play of Andy Stanley’s pre-preaching time for the inauguration service. Pretty interesting stuff.
  6. J.D. Greear on 2 ways to know you are saved.
  7. Why pastors and elders need prayer. When people at Revolution tell me they are praying for me, our elders and my family, it is one of my favorite things to hear.

Links I Like

Links I Like is a collection of blogs, articles and books I’ve come across recently and thought they were worth sharing. Click here for past Links I Like
  1. Leaders must slow down when things speed up. Great reminder.
  2. Jeff Vanderstelt on What a Christian man is to be.
  3. The life of an NFL undrafted rookie. This is simply interesting, especially if you love football.
  4. Walt Mueller on Kids and viewing pornography.

FREE Book on Helping Your Kids Fight for Purity

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Thanks to Big is the New Small for the link.

Links to Help You Get to Friday

  1. 12 words of encouragement for pastors. Great list. 
  2. Al Mohler on The goal of sex within marriage and how porn robs that. Love the idea that sex within marriage is the fulfillment of the rest of the marriage relationship. 
  3. How fear robs us. Great insights into what fear does in our lives. 
  4. Pete Wilson on How worry is killing us
  5. Mike Breen on Why the leadership movement is leaving your church leaderless
  6. 12 things a veteran church planter wished that he knew when he started. Great list for pastors and church planters. 
  7. The 5 mistakes CEO’s (and pastors) make when speaking
  8. To end with a great movie coming out:

Links for Your Weekend Enjoyment

  1. Mark your calendars for Planet Rev’s Family fun night on June 15 at Chic Fil-A.
  2. Helping a pastor’s wife on Sunday morning. Great insights for what churches can do to help a pastor’s family during church.
  3. Michael Cusick on How porn affects your brain.
  4. Competitive mothering.
  5. Ron Edmondson on 8 ways to finish a job well.
  6. Something every preacher should keep in mind.
  7. Shawn Lovejoy on The lure and danger of fame.
  8. Make your family time for effective.