The Early Bird Gets The Link is a daily roundup of interesting and thought provoking articles, videos, or audio clips.

How Can Your Church Serve Unemployed Men?

Worth the read. “Here I was, newly married and a seminary student, with no work. Every month, until I was back on my feet, a check would arrive from my home church, from an anonymous donor, sending me money.”

From Flight to Fight

But as Christians, our retreating from sin is not a retreating from war. Our flight from sin is as purposeful as it is active — like Tolkien’s depiction of Helm’s Deep in The Two Towers.

The Source and Sufficiency of Scripture

We can’t expect to turn God’s Word into a personal flashlight for our own chosen path. We must walk God’s path and there alone we will have the assurance of the enlightened way. 

Saved People Love to Sing

There are many ways Christians are a peculiar people. One of them is that we almost always sing when we’re together.

5 Ways to Live the God-Centered Life

How can we live the God-centered life in this contemporary age? You could answer this question in a way that’s understandable to a child, as well as in a way that would strike a Harvard professor as intellectually credible.

What Is the Longest Book in the Bible? (Hint: It’s Not the Psalms)

Very interesting