No Mr. President
John Piper provides a thoughtful and firm response to the cloudy, contradictory, and killing view that most of our culture, including our President, holds . . . for now that is.
Husband, Father, Lazers, Bible Exegesis, Christian Hedonism, Bible Arcing, Hip-Hip, Home Schooling, you know the usual stuff
Free Music at Re:Sound
The Resurgence is launching a new music branch named Re:Sound. Part of me doesn't understand why, because all of Mars Hills excellent music is already available for free on their site. But hey, maybe in the future they'll help get some music from some other local churches on folks radar. I'd love that.
Re:Sound will be launching on June 11th and until then they are giving away a free sampler with tracks from Joe Days Northern Conspiracy, Joel Browns Red Letter and Tim Smiths Ex Nihilo - All Mars Hill bands. They've also included all the chord sheets for the songs which I am guessing is great if you know how to read music and play an instrument.
Here's a few of my favorite tracks:
Red Letter - forthcoming release - Author and Perfector
[audio:ReSound/05 Author and Perfecter (from forthcoming Red Letter release).mp3]
Northern Conspiracy - forthcoming release - What Have We Done
[audio:ReSound/08 What Have We Done (from forthcoming The Northern Conspiracy release).mp3]
Ex Nihilo - Rain City Hymnal - I Sing the Mighty Power
[audio:ReSound/02 I Sing the Mighty Power (from Rain City Hymnal).mp3]
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The Masculinity of the Greatest Generation
I know I have not been writing about my personal life lately. I've been posting links to content and such. I've been too busy to write, but I have been wrestling and growing. When I started the series on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood I said
But that’s not really what interests me the most. You see, both of these views on gender within the church do not simply address the questions of “how do a husband and wife relate?” and “can women be pastors?” Both views offer answers to much, much deeper questions that are relevant to any man or woman whether or not they are married or desiring to be a pastor. Piper has asked before, “What do you tell your little boy when he asks you, ‘Daddy, what does it mean to grow up and be a man and not a woman?’ or ‘Mommy, what does it mean to grow up and be a woman and not a man?’” Piper has said that if all you can respond with is an anatomical answer, then you are setting your children up for disaster.Mark and I have taken a bit of a break from reviewing the book and, yes, we need to get back on track, but let me give you an update of where I am at. I am still uncomfortable with drawing lines in stone of what manhood and womanhood is without strong Biblical warrant. I still am not sure how exactly God describes manhood in Scripture or even if he does with the precision that I want, but I am more convinced then ever that it, manhood, masculinity is real. I can't quite put my finger on what it is, but while reading the article bellow I was fighting back tears. There is a depth of character and honor that the article describes that I long for and by Gods grace I believe I will understand more and posses more. While the article is not purposefully christocentric by any means (oh and I wish it was!), I could not help but feeling the weight of His glory hidden behind it.
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Foxes Book of Martyrs
Christian Audio dot com offers a different free audio book each month. This months selection is another amazing classic:
Beginning with the story of Stephen from the book of Acts, considered the first Christian martyr, the drama builds to the passion of the early Church's persecution under the Roman Empire. The hardy and radical faith of those first believers spawned medieval missionary movements that spread the gospel across Europe and into England, Scotland, and Ireland.If you prefer actual books you can grab the book on Amazon too. Excerpt from the Foxes Book of Martyrs [audio:Foxes Book of Martyrs SAMPLE.mp3]
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Keller & Clowney: Preaching Christ to a Postmodern World
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Isn't the God of Christianity an angry Judge?
Before writing his book Reason for God Timothy Keller gave a number of talks on common objections to Christianity. All of them are wonderfully winsome talks which show that the power of these objections weakens the closer you look at them, the more you wrestle with them. Bellow I've embedded one of the talks which is on Hell.
After hearing these talks, I'm going to buy this book. You can check out all of the talks for free.
Timothy Keller - Hell: Isn't the God of Christianity an angry Judge?
[audio:Hell_Isnt_the_God_of_Christianity.mp3]
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The Grand Demythologizer: The Gospel and Idolatry
Tim Keller spoke at the 2009 National Conference for the Gospel Coalition. In his talk Keller reveals the truth about present day idol worship in the world and in the Church and while these conference talks are often directed towards pastors and preachers in particular, I believe that this talk will benefit anyone, believer or otherwise.
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Soul Idolatry Excludes Men out of Heaven
David Clarkson (1621-1686)
"You can be sure that no immoral, impure, or covetous person will inherit the Kingdom of Christ and of God. For a such a person is really an idolater who worships the things of this world." Ephesians 5:5
A covetous man is an idolater. Not only the covetous, but the immoral, are idolaters. For the apostle, who here makes covetousness to be idolatry, considers voluptuous people to be idolaters also, where he speaks of some who make their belly their God (Phil. 3:19). Indeed, every reigning lust is an idol—and every person in whom it reigns is an idolater. "The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life." Pleasures, and riches, and honors are the carnal man's trinity. These are the three great idols of worldly men, to which they prostrate their souls! And giving that to them which is due only to God, they hereby become guilty of idolatry. That this may be more evident—that covetousness, immorality, and other lusts are idolatry—let us consider what it is and the several kinds of it.
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How I Came to be Both Reformed and Charismatic
If you were like me, you were a Calvinist who never imagined simultaneously embracing the charismatic/continuationist position. Or perhaps you were a charismatic, Pentecostal-type who never imagined embracing simultaneously the doctrines of grace. Would anyone care to share their experiences with coming to the Reformed Charismatic position?I don't exactly fit either of those two categories (reformed first and then also charismatic vs charismatic first and then also reformed.) I was first charismatic, then not charismatic, then reformed and finally later also charismatic again! I shared my story in brief on the site:
I was raised Lutheran though I never came to a saving knowledge of Christ as a child. I was 19 years old when I visited a word of faith church. During the beginning of the service, we were singing some song about Jesus shedding his blood for our sins and, well, I rather abruptly believed! My girlfriend and I married shortly there after and continued to attend that church.
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The Gospel Coalition Network from The City NOW OPEN
I can exclusively announce that the all-new and FREE Gospel Coalition Network website opened just a few minutes ago. The kind people running it have offered blog readers like you the chance to be first in line to join. If you already know what this is all about, then feel free to head straight over to one of the following links depending on what continent you are from, since this is a genuinely global offer. Don't worry, you will have access to the whole community no matter where you live. Then, do feel free to mention this on your own blog, or view my profile and add me to your contacts to follow my updates.
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