Free Easter Resources for Families: Lifeway is offering two free resources for kids ministry directors and families to use at home to celebrate the Resurrection. One of them is the Gospel Project’s 2020 Family Easter Event found here.
Additional Coronavirus Resources for you and your church: LifeWay is providing free resources like digital giving platforms for churches lacking a method for members to give online, as well as coronavirus ministry training guides, Bible study resources for kids and adults, and prayer guides. Check them all out here.
Podcast Pick of the Week: Collin Hansen interviews John Piper on the Coronavirus and Christ. Rich, biblical insight here.
Kindle Deal: Justification Reconsidered: Rethinking A Pauline Theme by Stephen Westerholm. $1.99.
Seven of the best articles I came across this week:
1. David Mathis – Corona Cannot Prevail Against Her. This is not a word about being the church in the coronavirus age. This is the church’s age, not a virus’s.
2. Jared C. Wilson – The Lord’s Prayer in a Crisis. Jared Wilson applies what the Lord’s Prayer teaches to our present moment of crisis — “a profoundly helpful and even powerful pledge of submission to God in the midst of painful, uncertain times.”
3. Lesley Stahl – Artificial Intelligence is preserving our ability to converse with holocaust survivors even after they die. This is a really remarkable project.
4. Josh King – 4 Priority Shifts Your Church Must Make During COVID-19. “Church leaders who focus on connections, efficiency, strategy, and relationships will not only weather the storm; they’ll come out on the other end poised to tackle challenges that lie ahead.”
5. Glenna Marshall – I Didn’t Know I Loved You Like This. Man, this reflection got to me. “Oh church, I didn’t know I loved you like this. Perhaps that is the gift of our isolation.”
6. Jay Kim – Analog Church in the Digital Age. As we serve and lead in the local church, we must remember that the goal isn’t selling a product or service but discipling our people.
7. Ivan Mesa, Colin Marshall, Tony Payne – The Decade-Old Ministry Book That Envisioned the Pandemic. There is a ministry leadership book from ten years ago that used a pandemic as an analogy for how we’d have to rethink ministry. Here the authors answer questions about the real-life situation we find ourselves in.