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On My Shelf: Life and Books with Drew Dyck
On My Shelf helps you get to know various writers through a behind-the-scenes glimpse into their lives as readers. Advertise on TGC What’s on your nightstand right now? I have a few on my nightstand. I’m reading Remaking the World by Andrew Wilson. I love books with a big bold thesis, so I’m finding it fascinating. Frankly, I’m blown away by the breadth of Wilson’s knowledge. No one should be that smart. It’s not fair.
Keep Complaining to God. Just Don't Ignore Him.
If you're a Christian for long enough, you'll notice that something sad starts to happen. A lot of the people who started the journey with you end up walking away. They leave for various reasons and go out different doors. Some leave loudly, announcing that they no longer believe in God. Others drift away without so much as a whisper. I wrote my first book on 20-somethings who shed their Christian identity. They had lots of reasons for leaving. Many were hurt by other Christians.
Top 10 Productivity Tools for Pastors
Apps, websites, software, and kitchen implements to help you conquer your to-do list.
Reaching Postmodern “Leavers”
This article first appeared in the Effective Evangelism column of the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 36, number 01 (2013). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information or to subscribe to the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL go to: http://www.equip.org/christian-research-journal/ My friend Abe was raised as a Christian, but abandoned his faith during college. “I don’t know what happened,” he said with a shrug.
Writing For a Change
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Why Self-Control Is So Important
We may be tested in dramatic moments, but the fabric of life is stitched slowly, through a thousand tiny choices that end up defining our lives. For the past year, the news has been crammed with instances of high-profile moral failings. For a while it seemed every day brought new revelations of a Hollywood executive or politician accused of sexual assault or harassment. If the allegations are true—and most of them sure seem to be—it’s hard to imagine what these people were thinking.
Middle East Christians Grapple with Apocalyptic Pandemic
Imad Shehadeh sensed an apocalyptic felt need. As chatter increased in the Arab world over the soaring coronavirus death tallies in China and Iran, the president of Jordan Evangelical Theological Seminary (JETS) in Amman began preaching eschatology in lockdown. “The coronavirus could qualify as one of the calamities that point to the end times, but could also just be a passing plague,” he said in a widely shared video series posted in March.
Pastoring People Who Cause You Pain
When the professed friends of God forsake the ministers of Christ, it is attended with circumstances peculiarly aggravating.
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Leverage agile frameworks to provide a robust synopsis for high level overviews. Iterative Iterative approaches Iterative approaches Iterative approaches What's lacking, I think, is a story. Tom and Summer meet and have fun together, then things cool off, and a little later there's an ending. (It's an unexpected and gratifying ending, though, which elicited happy applause). Is the character of Summer fascinating enough in itself to carry the film? I don't know.
Reading For a Change
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Your Future Self Will Thank You: Secrets to Self-Control from the Bible and Brain Science (Drew Dyck). The Development Trap (Adam D. Kiš). Good News Church: Celebrating the Legacy of Harold Percy (Editors John Bowen and Michael Knowles). Surprised by Paradox (Jen Pollock Michel). The Boat People (Sharon Bala). Art by Gene Tempelmeyer. Your Future Self Will Thank You: Secrets to Self-Control from the Bible and Brain Science By Drew Dyck Moody Publishers, 2018. 224 pages.
How to keep your phone from eating your soul : Tools for disciplined living in an age of distraction
I’m writing these words from the Seventh Circle of Hell. Well, that’s what I call it. My kids call it Chuck E. Cheese’s, and they think it is heaven. Right now, they’re running around slapping buttons, whacking moles, spinning wheels, and shooting tiny basketballs into tiny hoops. I’m over here at the corner table eating cheap pizza and trying to write something intelligible. It isn’t easy to do amid the flashing lights, blaring games, and shrieking children.
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Summer Finn, a narrator tells us, Test Caption goes right here. That's right, right here. Nowhere else. is an average woman in many ways— like height and weight, though slightly above average shoe size. Yet something about her arrests men's attention. She gets an average of 18.4 double takes per day. This is, we are told, "the Summer Effect." She's the new assistant to Vance, who runs a greeting card company. Tom Hansen, one of the card writers, is struck by her presence.
This is a podcast test article
Summer Finn, a narrator tells us, Test Caption goes right here. That's right, right here. Nowhere else. is an average woman in many ways— like height and weight, though slightly above average shoe size. Yet something about her arrests men's attention. She gets an average of 18.4 double takes per day. This is, we are told, "the Summer Effect." She's the new assistant to Vance, who runs a greeting card company. Tom Hansen, one of the card writers, is struck by her presence.
This is a podcast test article
Summer Finn, a narrator tells us, Test Caption goes right here. That's right, right here. Nowhere else. is an average woman in many ways— like height and weight, though slightly above average shoe size. Yet something about her arrests men's attention. She gets an average of 18.4 double takes per day. This is, we are told, "the Summer Effect." She's the new assistant to Vance, who runs a greeting card company. Tom Hansen, one of the card writers, is struck by her presence.
Pastor, Would You Choose Your Church?
Recently, I had lunch with a young pastor. As we talked about his call to ministry, he mentioned how happy he was at his current church. “I attended the church for two years before coming on staff,” he told me. The order was important to him. “I’d never work at a church I wouldn’t choose to attend,” he explained. My immediate reaction to his statement was positive. His motives seemed pure. He was dedicated to being at his church, whether or not he was collecting a paycheck from it.
Drew Dyck: Your Future Self Will Thank You
Your Future Self Will Thank You (Moody Publishers, 2019) WHO: Drew Dyck, an editor at Moody Publishers and the former managing editor of Leadership Journal. HE SAYS: “Ultimately, self-control isn’t about you. It’s about surrendering to God’s purposes for you.” THE BIG IDEA: Cultivating self-control is foundational for freedom and flourishing. THE PROGRESSION: Broken down into nine chapters, this book explores the concept of self-control being the foundation for the soul.
Self-Control, the Leader’s Make-or-Break Virtue
Mark was one of the most talented pastors our church had ever hired. He had two advanced degrees (two more than anyone else on staff), but he was no out-of-touch academic. Gregarious and personable, he was equally confident preaching or leading worship. But preaching is where he excelled. One time, our senior pastor was scheduled to speak at a retirement home in our community, but he came down with bronchitis. He called Mark. Could he fill in?
Spiritual Friendship, Magi-style
In the twelfth century, the English abbot Aelred of Rievaulx wrote the foundational treatise On Spiritual Friendship. Aelred made the case that one of the great practices of the Christian life is being transformed by the presence of a spiritual friend. He taught that through friendship we are sanctified, perfected into Christ.
Congress’s ‘Other’ Christians: The Fastest-Growing Faith on the Hill
At the swearing-in of the 116th United States Congress today, nearly 100 new legislators will take the oath of office, pledging to “well and faithfully discharge” their new duties, “so help me God.” After last year’s campaign and midterm elections, the ceremony represents answered prayers for dozens of incoming evangelical politicians.
Tolkien: Man Behind the Myth
On January 3, 2003, J. R. R. Tolkien would have celebrated his eleventy-first birthday, a most momentous occasion, the same birthday on which Bilbo departed the Shire for Rivendell. What would this venerable Oxford don have thought about his position in Western culture at the age of 111, almost a half-century after he initially published his trilogy? He would have seen reason enough for distress, chilling marks of the modern secular-scientific ideal.
This New Year, Build Character
We make New Year’s resolutions about money, fitness, diets, and technology. But what about personal character? And when choosing virtues to emulate, where should we start? The Bible, Aristotle, and Aquinas aren’t bad places to start, says Jay Wood, a philosophy professor at Wheaton College, who has frequently written about this topic. “What Christians have said about Aristotle is that he gives us good advice for how to flourish in a common human life,” said Wood.
The Top Testimonies of 2018
Christianity Today devotes a premium slot in each print magazine—the back page—to a compelling story of Christian conversion. Dozens have shared their tales of how God brought them to himself. In case you missed any, here are CT’s 2018 testimonies, ranked in reverse order of which ones readers read most.
4 Mistakes That Will Sabotage Your New Year’s Resolutions
I love New Year’s resolutions. Well, I love making New Year’s resolutions. In the waning days of December, I whip out my Moleskine notebook eager to dream up commitments for the year ahead. Exercise five times a week. Stick to the budget. Read my Bible every day. When I finish recording these goals, I’m almost jealous of my future self. He’s going to be so spiritual. And skinny! Then January happens, and I find that making resolutions is much easier than keeping them.
Eugene Peterson Wanted to Know Your Name
Eugene Peterson—who died in October at age 85—is best known, perhaps, as the author of The Message, his vernacular paraphrase of the Bible. But for many pastors and church leaders, Peterson was also a mentor who taught them to be shepherds rather than CEOs—in large part by modeling that approach himself. Drew Dyck, acquisitions editor at Moody Publishers, spoke with Peterson in 2017 as one of his final books (As Kingfishers Catch Fire) was published.
Christian Celebrity is Fleeting
A few years back I interviewed Tim Keller and mentioned it to my parents. I thought they’d be impressed since they were in ministry for 40 years, but they were like “Tim who?” Then they asked me about some of the big leaders in their generation, and I only faintly recognized a few of the names. It was a good reminder that this silly thing we call Christian celebrity rarely extends beyond a generation. Also, your great grandchildren probably won’t even know your name.
Leading Fearlessly in a Changing Culture
Declining denominations, dropping church attendance, rising numbers of people claiming no religion—these recent trends are enough to keep church leaders up at night. Amid the barrage of bad news, Trevin Wax’s latest book, This Is Our Time, might seem oddly sunny. But it’s not because Wax—a blogger and Bible publisher for LifeWay and teaching pastor at Third Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee—is out of touch.
The Op-Ed (Oprah Edited)
Leadership Journal managing editor Drew Dyck drops by today to share his latest efforts as an editorial vigilante. For the record, he's not usually this grumpy . . . must not have had his coffee yet. - Paul I skipped up to the counter to claim my caffeine. But just as I was about take my first sip, I spotted something on the java jacket—a quote from the former Queen of Daytime TV, Oprah Winfrey. I usually like quotes, but this one was bad—a dreadful cliché masquerading as wisdom.
Passion, Revisited: Remembering When I Was Radical for Chr......
What would my 20 year-old self think of me now? Last week, I sat in an arena with 20,000 college students, asking this question. The Passion Conference—simultaneously hosted at three arenas in Atlanta and Houston (with a combined attendance of 40,000 students)—felt like a time machine. It was as big and amazing as 15 years before, when I sat in a similar arena with a similar group of students, praising God and dreaming of a radical life for Christ. Back then, I believed anything was possible.
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