These all are familiar, though 2, 4, 6 and 10 resonate with me particularly at the moment. Kevin DeYoung via Justin Taylor (where there’s a long video about these) Beware of preaching all your battles from seminary. Be careful with offhanded comments. Be yourself. Remember there are different kinds of people listening. Don’t let personal …

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Mikey Lynch reflects on a recent training event and works through the question of whether culture or strategy is more important in leadership. Though the two aspects can’t be separated, they can be distinguished, and Mikey posits that whichever is your starting point it has to move intentionally to embrace the other as integral to …

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Jay Adams writes about the skill of picturing truth in sermons, and why contemporary congregations need more help in this regard than their predecessors. …let me stress the importance of working harder than ever at learning how to picture truth. In biblical times, the listeners’ imaginations were much more highly trained than the average listener’s …

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