With Calvin in the Theater of God

This past weekend, Desiring God hosted its annual national conference. The topic this year, marking the 500th anniversary of John Calvin’s birth, was “With Calvin in the Theater of God.” All the audio and video has been posted, and you may access it at either Desiring God, or the conference website, Theater of God.

Grab bag

This morning I caught up on some blog reading (I only check them sporadically these days). Here are a variety of links that I found interesting and beneficial: Al Mohler, “The Delay of Marriage and the Decline of Church Attendance” Al Mohler, “The Real Population Threat” “How to Pray for Joni Eareckson Tada” (and many […]

Grab Bag

A list of collected resources, interesting articles, and even an opportunity or two from the last week: Allister Begg’s conference for pastors is always interesting and helpful. I’ve listened to the audio for the last two or three years, and this year one of the speakers is a guy named Piper. Hmmm. I won’t be […]

Recent conference audio

I have recently listened to the majority of the audio from two recent conferences; both of these sets are worth hearing. The Bethlehem conference featured Mark Dever, pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church, addressing the topic of evangelism (which was also the topic of a recent book by Dever). The Sola conference addressed the reformation […]

Reasons for John MacArthur’s enduring ministry

On February 1, Grace Community Church will celebrate the 40th anniversary of John MacArthur’s pastorate there. In what he called a “pre-emptive strike,” he offered three sermons that provided the reasons for the success of this church: “Foundations of Grace, Part 1: The Glory of God” “Foundations of Grace, Part 2: The Lordship of Christ” […]

Free Shepherds’ Conference audio

Not only has the Shepherds’ Fellowship (a resource outgrowth of the Shepherds’ Conference held annually at Grace Community Church in Southern California) redesigned their website, but they have also made available all the audio from 2001 – 2008 for free! In order to access the audio, you will need to create an account, but that […]

A short grab bag of links

Here are a variety of interesting links that I’ve noted over the past couple of weeks, but haven’t been able to work into a blog: Justin Taylor synthesized a detailed response to Newsweek’s recent article, “Our Mutual Joy,” denigrating the Biblical position that opposes homosexual marriage. Al Mohler has also offered a variety of responses […]

MacArthur podcasts

A few weeks ago I noted that Grace to You, the publishing ministry of John MacArthur is making available all the sermons they have archived on their website for free. I noticed a couple days ago that you can also receive MacArthur’s current Sunday sermons and daily radio program by podcast (meaning the sermons will […]

It’s John Calvin’s birthday (almost)

Next year marks the 500th anniversary of John Calvin’s birth. A number of books are being published already as biographical retrospectives of his life. And ChristianAudio is also making available for free one of his books in an audio format. Of Prayer and the Christian Life is actually a portion of his larger work, The […]

Free MacArthur .mp3 audio

I have long appreciated the ministry of Desiring God making all their audio resources and as many of their print resources as possible available for free. Now comes this announcement from Grace to You that beginning on Wednesday, Nov. 5, they will make all of John MacArthur’s audio (including his weekly sermons) similarly available for […]

Are you scared?

I saw it in a headline a few days ago: “Scary economic times teach hard lessons about fiscal responsibility.” I’ve heard and overheard it in multiple ways since then, and even two or three different times today, “I know I shouldn’t be, but I’m afraid of (fill in the blank:) the economy, the presidential race, […]

A small grab bag

Here, in no particular order, and with little comment, are a few articles and blogs that I’ve come across this week that were of varying kinds of interest to me. They all triggered thoughts that warranted more extended discussion, but I just haven’t had the time to think them all through yet… John Ensor, “Magnifying […]

Ten shekels and a shirt — a sermon worth hearing

A couple years ago, a friend sent me a link to a sermon entitled “Ten Shekels and a Shirt,” by a pastor/missionary named Paris Reidhead. I was unfamiliar with the sermon or the pastor, but found the message to be very challenging. This week, I listened to the sermon again, and was challenged afresh over […]

Self-righteousness, judgmentalism, and confronting sin

I’ve been listening to an excellent pair of sermons this week by Dave Harvey, entitled “The Surgeon, the Scalpel, and the Saint in Sin.” Preaching from Luke 6:27-36, Harvey addresses the question of how to confront a sinning believer without becoming self-righteous and judgmental ourselves. His basic premise is: “The manner in which we respond […]

.mp3 audio

I have a small .mp3 player (512 MB) that I keep loaded with sermons only (and one music album for when my daughters are in the car with me). And I listen to several of those sermons (usually 5-8) per week. Even with a short commute (12-15 minutes), with the commute and lunch and various […]