Links for the Weekend (2026-05-29)

Each Friday, I’ll post links to 3–5 resources from around the web you may want to check out.

Pray to the Lord of the Harvest

Trevin Wax highlights prayer as an essential evangelistic activity, and he offers three practical suggestions.

A couple years ago, John Dickson and I were giving guest lectures for a course at Wycliffe Hall in Oxford. One of his observations stood out to me: Praying is the most frequently enjoined gospel-promoting activity in the New Testament.

Not preaching. Not giving. Not going. Praying.

I tend to think of prayer as what we do before the real work of evangelism begins, or as a last resort when we run into difficulty. But ever since Dickson made that observation, I keep finding that emphasis on evangelistic prayer everywhere I look in the New Testament.

The Dangerous Days Past Middle Age

Michele Morin writes with some warnings for those in the second half of life. She points out three temptations particular to this age.

I can easily be fooled into mistaking apathy for godly serenity. I might take comfort in the absence of “fiery” sins like lust and anger — yet I may be blind to the pride, selfishness, and slothfulness that have crept into their place. Time can make us lazy, and we’re all subject to its subtle drift. Perhaps the sifting question for the aging Christian is, “Am I killing sin, or have I just traded one destructive path for another?”

I Am Not Enough for My Kids

Amy Medina writes about the determination she needed when going through the adoption process and how she took that same determination into parenting.

But what I discovered is that bringing them home, as challenging as it was, was the easy part. Raising them is much harder. And I’ve slowly, incrementally, had to accept this hard truth: Determination is not enough. I am not enough for my kids. 

I can’t bind up all the wounds. I can’t protect them from all the bad things. I can’t make them love the things I love. I can’t keep the bullies away. I can’t always stop them from being the bully. I can’t force a (sincere) apology. I can’t change DNA. I can’t create motivation. I can’t make this world fair. I can’t keep them safe all the time. I can’t manifest love and security into their hearts. And of course, I can’t always be the kind, patient, and wise mother I imagined I would be. 

On the WPCA Blog This Week

This week on the blog we published an article I wrote called Work: For Legacy or Joy? If you haven’t already seen it, check it out!

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