Posts by Daniel Darling
Who Exactly Am I Preaching To?
“Um, so, did someone tell you about Dave’s job?” an anxious member told me, as she shook my hand on the way out of the auditorium one Sunday morning. “Because it seemed like you were talking to us.” I told her this was the first I had heard of their fragile employment situation. The sermon…
Read MoreThe Way Home: Pete Scazzero on healthy spiritual leadership
What does healthy spiritual leadership look like? Why is it that Christian leaders often neglect their inner lives? Pete Scazzero, drawing from his own experiences and from Scripture, trains pastors and leaders to lead well and lead healthy. Show Notes Twitter: @petescazzero Website: emotionallyhealthy.org
Read MoreBoring Church Services Changed My Life
I’ve never really had a moment in my life—39 years—when I wasn’t going to church. My parents got engaged and married in the church. I was born into, raised in, and baptized in church. My parents, first-generation Christians, were devout church-goers. We went every time the doors were open—and many times when they weren’t. My…
Read MoreThe Way Home: Jason Thacker on the gospel and technology
How should Christians think about technology? Should we be afraid of it? Should we wholeheartedly embrace it? What are the deeper questions we should ask? Today my colleague Jason Thacker joins me for a discussion on the gospel and technology. Jason is the creative director at ERLC and the author of several important articles asking…
Read MoreThe Way Home: John Stonestreet on what it means to live on mission for God
How should Christians think and live in an increasingly secularized culture? Should we be shocked by ways in which historic Christian beliefs conflict with other completing worldviews? Should we long for, with nostalgia, a time when things seemed to be different? John Stonestreet, president of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, stops by to discuss what…
Read MoreThe Dad I Want To Be
I wrote a piece on the vulnerability of fathering for In Touch: It’s 7:30 at night, and I’m staring at my iPhone for no apparent reason. There is no crisis in the world that requires me. No organizational issue that demands a response, and no critical communication I must conduct on behalf of my family…
Read MoreThe Way Home: Sam Allberry on engaging a secular culture
A lot of Christians are asking themselves if gathering on Sundays, in church, still matters. Sam Allberry, pastor, author, and apologist says it does. Sam is the author of several books, including his latest, Why bother with church? He also reflects on what it means to engage an increasingly secular culture with the gospel and…
Read MoreThe Way Home: Eric Geiger on faith, failing and starting over
Nobody starts out with the intention of ruining their life. But inevitably Christian leaders see their careers and marriages shipwrecked due to moral failure or financial impropriety. What factors lead to a major fall? Eric Geiger, Vice President of Church Resources at LifeWay Christian Resources, shares insights for leaders from his new book, How to…
Read MoreThe Church’s Next 10,000 Years
It was a slick PowerPoint—presented by a (self-described) cutting-edge ministry practitioner—that sent me over the edge. Carefully presenting cherry-picked research, this ministry leader offered a doomsday scenario for the American church: heresy is rising. Millennials are fleeing. Culture is changing. Of course, this inevitable slouch toward Gomorrah could be prevented, we were told, if we…
Read MoreThe Way Home: Lee Strobel on sharing the gospel in an increasingly secular world
Decades after he published The Case for Christ, apologist Lee Strobel reflects on his journey from atheism to Christianity and why how he shares the gospel in an increasingly secular world. Strobel rejoins the podcast to talk about his new book, The Case for Miracles, about being portrayed on the big screen, and that time…
Read MoreThe Way Home: Jana Magruder on encouraging kids’ faith
What critical factors help create environments for kids’ faith to flourish? A brand-new Lifeway survey of 2,300 Christian kids and parents asks what factors encourage kids to stay in the church. Jana Magruder, LifeWay Director of Kids’ Ministry, joins me to discuss the surprising results and offers hope and encouragement for parents. Show Notes Book:…
Read MoreThe glory we don’t see: Looking harder for glimpses of God at work around us
Every week I met with a drug dealer, a shady business-man, and a serial gambler. Only you wouldn’t know it, because sitting in the pew next to me, they looked just like church people. Middle class. Put together. Churchy. But here they were, trophies of grace, evidence of some strange and mysterious redemption. Glimpses of…
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