Simon Cox Blog: Weekend Edition

Politics, soccer, leadership, church signs and more!

Politics aren’t Worth Your Friendships—Trillia Newbell

I second this wholeheartedly.

6 Signs You Are an Easily Distracted Leader—Eric Geiger

Pay attention to this and you’ll be a more effective leader.

About those “20 Minutes of Action”: 20 Things We’d Better Tell Our Sons Right Now About Being Real Men—Ann Voskamp

My frustration over this case comes both as a man and as a father of girls. Ann cuts to the core of the issue.

Fearfully and Autistically Made—Valerie Dunham

And a story beautifully told.

4 Things I Learned About Work from a Peewee Soccer Team—Barnabas Piper

Great insights from a good friend and great writer.

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Earlier this week on The Exchange

Amplifying Evangelism—Why Preparation for Evangelism Is More Important than Evangelism

Seeker Comprehensible Preaching...Without Dumbing Down

Pray Together Sunday

3 Church Methods That Need to Change

Saturday is for Seminars—Disaster Relief Conference

"Lord, I Thank Thee That I am not Like Those Evangelical Trump Supporters"

Church Signs

I wonder if they have an outhouse.

For real this sign should be on every Southern Baptist church.

File under: We tried to be culturally relevant and just couldn’t.

Thanks to Daniel Buttram, Peter Walters, and David Erlandson for this week’s church signs. As always you can tweet your church sign pics to @EdStetzer.