Random links: June 21, 2017

4 Promising Opportunities in University Evangelism
 By Tim Keller & Michael Keller
Excerpt: 
" We hope realism concerning the challenges of university evangelism doesn’t give the impression we think the prospects for university missions and evangelism are bleak. Not at all. The current climate, for all its challenges, also provides promising opportunities..." image

Podcast: Five Big Problems for Small Churches
Highlights include:

Small churches are not a problem, virtue, or excuse.

Just because your church is small does not mean you can’t do good ministry.

There’s not a single command to the New Testament church that can’t be accomplished by a small church.

The sooner you can assess a Sunday service or church event the better.

Churches should purposefully and intentionally equip members for ministry.

It is a pastor’s job (according to the New Testament) to equip others to do the work of ministry.

How to Remember the Bible Verses You Memorize
The discipline of memorizing Bible verses pays great dividends in the life of a Christian. Having Scripture stored up in our hearts helps us to remember God’s promises in tough times, flee from sin in moments of temptation, possess greater confidence in sharing the Gospel, and give fresh words of encouragement to struggling Christians. The problem for us is that while memorizing a verse presents a challenge, remembering it in three months is a great difficulty. We often find ourselves wanting to quote something that we spent two days memorizing but cannot remember the exact wording of the verse or the precise reference to save our lives. How can we remember the Bible verses that we memorized a week, a month, or a year ago?...