These are the Top 5 things I found on the web this week:
It’s easy for us to think of Sunday morning as a snooze-fest. But what if we were to see it from God’s perspective? “How can we overlook Sunday mornings unless we’ve grown dull to the constellation of incomparable beauties that come together in those ninety precious minutes? In some real sense, what we experience in worship together is the closest to heaven we come in this life. No matter how familiar or mundane it may feel in any given week, what happens on Sunday morning is a wonder to anticipate, behold, and enjoy.”
Human Relationships Are Becoming Luxury Goods
“So as wealthy kids are growing up with less screen time, poor kids are growing up with more. How comfortable someone is with human engagement could become a new class marker.”
Again, Joshua Gibbs: “I would like to know what qualities of life make for a legitimate opinion on politics. If a man is a good cook, I take his opinion on restaurants seriously. If a man is a good car mechanic, I take seriously his opinion on what kind of car I should buy. But what qualifies a common man to have his opinion on politics taken seriously?”
A helpful workshop from 9Marks.
I resonated with this helpful article, because I’ve noticed my ability to learn peoples’ names at church has increased exponentially when I took ownership for them as people: “The power of a Name Wizard, I discovered, lies in the commitment to learn and use names. That’s not the same as remembering names. Becoming a Name Wizard, then, is much more about the heart than the brain.”
Mike Phay: One Beggar 