Primer on Biblical Theology
From the 9Marks at Southeastern Seminary conference, five sessions on biblical theology:
1: Preaching from Genesis through Revelation, Mark Dever unfolds the beautiful plan of God, evident in Scripture from beginning to end.
2: Preaching from Romans 9, Thabiti Anyabwile reminds us how God’s sovereign election demonstrates His glory.
3: Preaching from Isaiah 6, David Platt reminds us of God’s holiness and the scandal of the Gospel.
4: Preaching from Philippians 2, Danny Akin connects the suffering servant in Isaiah 45 and 53 to Paul’s teaching on the incarnation of Christ.
5: Preaching from Revelation 2, Matt Chandler helps us see the danger in losing our passion for Christ, and for His body, the Church.
An Improvement-proof Gospel
Loved this post by Jared Wilson: “If you know and speak the gospel, you are a channel for God’s destroying of strongholds and resurrecting of lives. Every Christian who can articulate the gospel has the launch code and access to the button.”
Marriages are Built or Destroyed Moment by Moment
Paul Tripp at the Crossway.blog: “If you are a sinner married to a sinner, then it is very dangerous to allow yourself to coast as a couple. You simply will not live a day together where no act of thoughtlessness, self-interest, anger, arrogance, self-righteousness, bitterness, or disloyalty will rear its ugly head. Often it will be benign and low-level, but it will still be there.”
How Missionaries Lost Their Chariots of Fire
Wall Street Journal article comments on how it is hip for Christians to go around the world trying to help people—but they are not sharing their faith.
5 Psalms: Don Carson
Don Carson preached on five Psalms 1, 2, 40, 48 & 110 at Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia.
False Messages: A New E-book by Aileen Challies, free for download
Aileen Challies of Grace Fellowship Church (Toronto) has written a free e-book that “…seeks to help women, whether wives or wives-to-be, to understand the purpose and the power of sex and sexuality. It encourages them to put away the false messages they have believed about sex and to reorient themselves around the truth. Since God is the one who created sex, he is the one who must direct it.”
Free E-books from Christian Book Distributors
Speaking of free e-books, Christian Book Distributors (christianbook.com) began offerning free e-book versions available for download with the purchase of the printed format. They are currently offering a few of these e-books FREE—no purchase necessary.
