Friday Links

Here are five posts that I enjoyed this week plus a bonus social media post.

1. Graham Singh – Evangelism, Church Planting, and Alpha Course. As both a church planter and the executive director for Church Planting Canada, Graham has solid insight into a some of the factors affecting church planting in the years ahead.

2. Sarah Zylstra – North Korea Gets Competition: The Top 50 Countries Where It’s Hardest to Be a Christian. We must be advocates and ready to minister to the persecuted Christians around the world. CT gives us a rundown using the World Watch List data.

3. Bradly Birzer – The Challenge: How C.S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy Came Into Being. So many know Lewis for The Chronicles of Narnia but have never read his Space Trilogy. Here is a quick recap about how J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis came up with the idea for the book series.

4. Jeff Vanderstelt – 5 Ways Leaders Can Make Discipleship “Normal.” We all want to have discipleship as a normal part of life rather than a program on the church calendar. Jeff offers a few practical and spiritual ways to accomplish it.

5. Nick Cole – ESPN’s Chris Fowler & Alabama’s onside kick. ROLL TIDE! Just wanted to get that out there.

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