On the Links

• Pastor Blog: Should I start a new ministry?
  On his blog Pastor Trevor Lund gives some tips on when and how to launch a new ministry.
• Free Gospel Presentation iPhone App from My316.com
  Sharing the gospel? My316 is a step-by-step audio visual presentation of the gospel, using John 3:16, that helps you share the Good News wherever and whenever you have your device. Watch video resources directly from the app and share them with your friends on Twitter and Facebook with ease.
• What should I read next?
  This very simple site provides ideas of what you can read next after you simply enter the title (or ISBN) of what you’re reading now.
• Three ways to build community in your ministry staff
  As you probably know, ministry staffs can have as much trouble with unity as secular ones. Tom Pounder gives some tips on how to develop better relationships within your team.
• Pastor Blog: Know your influencers or die a slow death!
  On this brief blog post, Pastor Artie Davis helps you communicate your vision through key influencers. 
• Complete Bible Genealogy
  Site for finding to whom biblical characters are related.
• Historic church brings New Mexico village together
  People from a New Mexico village build community through an annual tradition of working on its famous adobe church building.
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Belief In Action
  In Hitler's Germany, a Lutheran pastor chooses resistance and pays with his life.

Book Look

• Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream
  by David Platt
  Platt, the popular young pastor of The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Ala., is using his expanding national platform to urge Christians to rethink the "American dream," their faith -- and whether the two can co-exist. Erich Bridges

Bible Bytes

• We are confident of all this because of our great trust in God through Christ.

  It is not that we think we are qualified to do anything on our own. Our qualification comes from God. He has enabled us to be ministers of his new covenant. This is a covenant not of written laws, but of the Spirit. The old written covenant ends in death; but under the new covenant, the Spirit gives life.
  
  2 Corinthians 3:4-6 (NLT)

Notes & Quotes

• “… There is no power on earth like unconditional love. And I think that if you offered that to your child, I mean, you’re 90 percent of the way home. There may be days when you don’t feel like it — it’s not uncritical love; that’s a different animal — but to know you can always come back, that is huge in life. That takes you a long, long way. And I would say that every parent out there that can extend that to their child at an early age, it’s going to make for a better human being." – Warren Buffett, Yahoo! News and The Huffington Post (July 8, 2010)
• "The Bible was written in tears, and to tears it yields its best treasures." -- A.W. Tozer
• “Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.”  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Only 54 percent of cancer patients in a U.S. National Cancer Institute study said they were told they had cancer in a doctor’s office. Eighteen percent said they were told over the phone. Thirty-nine percent said no one was with them when the news was given. (Source: USA Today, July 9, 2010)