A Happy Independence Day to our U.S. readers and a one-day belated Happy Canada Day to readers in the land north of the 49th. On with the linkage ...

• I'm not sure what the major story is here: That Eric Metaxas has finished a new book—Miracles—or that veteran talk show host Dick Cavett is guest-hosting the next Socrates in the City event.
• What's in a sermon series title? Reading this short devotional, I wondered what would happen if Andy Stanley's popular series Guardrails had been called Rumble Strips.
• For preachers, there is a difference between messages that exhort and messages that evoke.
• Here are some questions to ask as you're sitting around the campfire: Can we sin in heaven? Also, Doesn't God need to have had a creator? Or, you could just go in the cabin and play Dutch Blitz.
• David Fitch says you can't be missional and be multi-site.
• Quotation of the Week? "... Prayer is like a shot of WD-40 into my brain. It unsticks things. It loosens things up. I run more smoothly after I pray." How I learned to pray like a Catholic.