“To be a good leader, you’ve got to know how to follow first. If you want others to submit to your leadership, you’ve got to learn how to submit to the authorities in your life…Biblically great people don’t want to draw attention to themselves, but want to lay down their own lives for other people. You should be willing to serve other people because you should really believe they’re more significant than you.” (Dan Dumas, Live Smart: Preparing for the Future God Wants for You)

by Cesar Vigil-Ruiz

Feliz Friday! With Thanksgiving a week away, there’s already much to be thankful for, including this week’s links! Here they are!

• The ’10 things you should know’ series continues, this time about physician assisted suicide.
• Tim Challies gives a clear tactic in handling conflicts biblically: asking two specific questions that gets to the heart of forgiveness. For the sake of the unity of the church body, read this!
• TMS Professor Dr. Greg Harris is coming out with a new book, The Bible Expositor’s Handbook sometime next year, but has made available of the first two chapters here. Enjoy!
• ACBC has made available one of their sessions from this year’s annual conference. This one is titled, “The Doctrine of the Church and Biblical Counseling” by Steve Viars. Praise God for His faithfulness to His people in the care of souls!
• Colleen Chao invites us into her life (and Joseph) to see the hand of God in bringing a proud person to compassion. Heath Lambert gives counsel on the Truth in Love podcast on how to break through to the heart of a prideful person.
• Challies mentions and challenges three parenting myths we are all tempted to believe.
• Professor David Murray, with assistance of his students in counseling, has created a counselor’s checklist, based on Paul Tripp’s Love-Know-Speak-Do structure, to gauge how one is doing in providing biblical counsel. I hope this is of help to everyone who offers counsel from the Scriptures.
• What’s at stake in the creation-evolution debate? Center for Science and Culture associate director John West reports on a new study that quantifies the effects of evolutionary ideas on faith and ethics of the general public. There’s some valuable information, so take a look!
• Pastor Jeremy Yong explains why grace seems hard for him as an Asian-American. Very appreciative of his perspective!

That’s all for this week! Please keep the youth and collegians in prayer, as they meet tonight. Hope to see you all on Sunday!

Soli Deo Gloria