5 top Christian blog posts of the week—posts on discipling older believers, Mary Poppins, shepherds who are more like wolves, trends in Christian blogging, and more by Tim Challies, Paul Tautges, and more.
Mary Poppins Returns: Echoes of the Gospel?
My wife and I saw Mary Poppins Returns this week. We enjoyed it…but now that I’ve read Steven Ingino’s post at The Cripplegate, I need to see it again. Read Mary Poppins Returns: Echoes of the Gospel? to learn how to perceive the gospel message in the most unlikely of places…
3 Kinds of Blogs and the Future of Blogging
Tim Challies has been exploring the death (or at least shrinking) of individual Christian blog sites. Today, he explores 3 Kinds of Blogs and the Future of Blogging. Read this post and follow Tim’s series—as this is important to any of us who like to blog or are ministered to by bloggers.
Women in Biblical Counseling Series: Interview with Sherry Allchin
Wonderful interview by Ellen Castillo with Sherry Allchin in the Women Counseling Women Series at Julie Ganschow’s Biblical Counseling for Women site. Everyone can benefit from this interview as it shares insights into how to joyfully and sacrificially minister the Word to hurting people.
Walking Saints Home
At the Gospel-Centered Discipleship site, Pastor Zac Harrel notes that:
“Much of the writing and teaching on discipleship seems to focus on those who are younger and healthier. When this is the case, we overlook the great privilege of shepherding those who are almost home. When we enter into a church and seek to disciple those in our care, we must think about discipling every generation. We put an emphasis on children’s ministry, on youth and young adults, and on multiplying disciples through small groups or other ministries. But we must not forget those who have helped build our churches.
Learn how to disciple “senior saints” in Walking Them Home.
Shepherds Gone Astray
In a biting-but-needed commentary, Pastor Paul Tautges uses the book of Jeremy to call pastors back to the biblical work of shepherding. His closing comments summarize his thoughts well:
“In other words, the very nature of the pastorate is being intentionally overhauled and the ‘new’ worldly paradigm does not look much different from that which God condemned in the Old Testament.”
Read all about it in Shepherds Gone Astray.
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