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Aaron Armstrong / April 3, 2018

Links I like (4/3)

Links I like (2018 edition)

Podcast: On the latest episode of The Hero of the Story, Brian and I discuss what it means to be united in the gospel. Check it out on iTunes or at The Gospel Project blog.


Free audiobook: Reset by David Murray

This was one of the best books I read all last year, and it just so happens to be free for the month of April at Christian Audio.

My Sermon Preparation Process

I love posts like this. Thankful for Matt sharing it.

The Gospel-Shaped Pastor

Jared Wilson:

Pastors are a motley bunch of souls. We represent different personalities and tribes, different methodologies and styles, not to mention denominations, traditions, and theologies. But I’ve learned over the years that there is something many of us all have in common—a profound sense of insecurity for which the only antidote is the gospel.

It’s easy to succumb to the temptation to compare one’s ministry to that of another pastor, or give in to the need to impress others and be liked.

How We Do Greater Things Than Jesus

Don Carson:

The person who has true faith in Jesus is promised that she will do greater things than Jesus’s works. But what does “greater” mean? Shall Christians perform more sensational acts? It’s difficult to imagine miracles more sensational than those of Jesus; “greater” surely doesn’t mean that.

The Final Call of John Perkins

Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra:

At 87 years old, John Perkins is ready for his eighth career.

After being a janitor, welder, equipment designer, Bible teacher, civil-rights activist, community developer, and author, Perkins wants to “devote the rest of my life to biblical reconciliation.”

It would be hard to find someone better qualified.

Special Needs Kids Don’t Need Special Parents

Diane Dokko Kim:

Well-intended friends must have shared the same uninformed understanding because they attempted to encourage with, “It takes a special person to raise a special needs child.” Only I didn’t volunteer for this—I had been drafted. The likes of me would never sign up for such a gig, much less qualify. Perhaps that was the point. God was surely playing some cosmic joke with this epic mismatch of child to parent. It seemed a cruel irony to pair a vulnerable, delicate child with a reckless mother like me. I wasn’t comfortable around disabled people. I avoided making eye contact. I’m irresponsible and lack empathy. I’m shallow, self-centered, and lazy. “You’ve got the wrong person,” I thought. “Lord, please pick someone else.”


He will hear us

A favorite from the archives:

There are few moments I love more than coming home after work and having my son rush at me, leap into the air and give me a giant hug. Or when my middle daughter surprises me with kisses on the cheek. Or when my oldest looks at me quizzically and says, “Grown-ups… are strange.” (More correctly, her dad is.) Or when Emily and I sit on the couch, doing our own thing or chatting, and she touches me with her feet just so there’s a physical connection.

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Aaron Armstrong / April 2, 2018

S3, Ep. 8: When good books become bad movies

Reading Writers

Reading Writers is back in the studio this week with a new episode. On this episode, Dave and I talk about a subject near and dear to Dave’s heart: movies! That’s right, we’re talking movies on the podcast about reading. But it’s cool because we’re talking about what happens when good (and even kind of okay) books become really bad movies. Listen in as we discuss:

  • What makes for a bad adaptation
  • What happens when studios make movies
  • How Aaron really feels about Justice League
  • Dave admits to watching Twilight and says something about being on someone’s team

Among the many books and movies we discuss

  • A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
  • Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
  • Dune by Frank Herbert
  • How to Ruin Your Life by Eric Geiger
  • Devotional Doctrine by some guy
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Aaron Armstrong / March 31, 2018

Weekend reading (3/31)

Weekend Reading

Is there beauty in death?

An adapted post from Devotional Doctrine, my new book written for The Gospel Project.

Good Friday, Billy Graham, and the Transcendent Gospel

Ed Stetzer:

Rev. Graham dedicated his life to the importance of this day: an encounter with the crucified Christ changes everything. When Jesus bore the burden of our sins on the cross he paved the way for us to accept his free gift of forgiveness and ultimately be reunited with him.

Like a shepherd gathering his sheep, there isn’t a distance our heavenly father wouldn’t have ventured—no wilderness He wouldn’t have braved—to bring us back to himself.

What Really Happened in the Garden of Gethsemane

JD Greear:

When I was younger, I always thought that what made Jesus’ death so bad were the physical horrors. And they were, by all accounts, terrible. But that is not what made Jesus stagger in Gethsemane. Jesus staggered because he faced abandonment by God. Thatwas the horror of the cross for him. That’s why the Gospel writers don’t focus much on the physiological aspects of the crucifixion. The physical suffering, as bad as it was, wasn’t the essence of Calvary. The essence of Calvary was abandonment by God.

A Letter to “Raised-in-a-Good-Church” Kids About How to Become a Christian

Bryan Elliff writes an important letter to good church kids.

6 Ways to Survive the Grief of Childlessness

Chelsea Sobolik:

Even though I have experienced only one of the forms that childlessness can take, I’m well acquainted with the grief of being unable to have a biological child. For women like me who want to be mothers, childlessness contradicts what we know about the created order of the world. We have godly desires to parent. Our physical composition tells of this truth. We have breasts to feed a newborn; we have a uterus to grow a fetus. Our bodies were intentionally designed to fulfill God’s mandate to “be fruitful and multiply.”

The Bible’s Call to Imitate the Prostitute

David McLemore:

The Bible includes a fascinating cast of characters, if you want to call them that. They’re not “characters” in the novel sense. They’re real people, with real lives and real sins, who experienced real grace or real judgment. So let’s call them people, for that’s what they are. These people come in all shapes and sizes, they’re of every profession. Some are of no profession at all—nomads following God through the world. And there are, of course, legitimate professions and illegitimate professions. Prostitution falls in the illegitimate column. That’s why it’s a surprise that the Bible presents a prostitute as a model of faith.


10 words that will completely shatter your self-image (and that’s a good thing!)

A favorite from the archives:

Let’s just admit it right now: we think far too highly of ourselves.

And no, those aren’t the ten words I’m talking about (and not just because there are 13 words in that sentence).

We westerners have an obsession with autonomy. We are self-made people who are motivated to actualize our potential to live our best lives now so that every day can be a Friday after we’ve worked a four-hour work week (which gives us more time to work out at the gym and experiment with fad diets, y’know).

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