Thursday 2 June 2011

Mount Zion: Beautiful photograph that get's me excited about the New Heavens and New Earth



22 But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, 23 to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, 24 to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
Hebrews 12:22-24

For the Love of God: D.A. Carson's daily Bible reading and devotional comments free!


Don Carson has written two books entitled For the Love of God. They are daily devotional comments for McCheyne's daily reading plan.

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NEXT Conference (Sovereign Grace) Audio 2011









D.A. Carson, R.C. Sproul, Kevin DeYoung, Jeff Purswell, and Scott Oliphint all spoke at this weekend’s Next conference in Orlando. Here’s all the general-session audio, for streaming or download.


Jeff Purswell, “God on the World: The Bible’s Framework for a Christian Worldview”

Jeff Purswell is dean of our Pastors College and a pastor at Covenant Life Church (Gaithersburg, MD).

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Scott Oliphint, “Think or Believe? The Role of Reason in the Life of Faith”

Scott Oliphint is Professor of Apologetics and Systematic Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia.

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D.A. Carson, “The Gospel and the Postmodern Mind”

D.A. Carson is Research Professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

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R.C. Sproul, “The Reality of Truth in a World of Relativism”

R.C. Sproul is the founder and president of Ligonier Ministries, and is the senior minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew’s (Sanford, FL).

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Kevin DeYoung, “Who Am I? Humanity in the Eyes of the World and the Christian”

Kevin DeYoung is senior pastor of University Reformed Church (East Lansing, MI).

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Wednesday 1 June 2011

Mark Driscoll on How to honor your wife

This post is taken from the resurgence website.

How to Honor Your Wife

Mark Driscoll » Marriage Complementarian

This post was adapted from the Marriage & Men sermon and edited by the Mars Hill Blog


Now, my tone is for the men. We speak to men differently than women. Were this a women’s conference, I would not call you all idiots and imbeciles and fools, that you’re a joke, okay? But you men, this is where it needs to go. You’ve been glad-handed and buddied up and positive thinking and you’re a winner and Jesus loves you and you can do better. And I’m telling you, you’re a joke. And the real men in the room know it and they see it. And maybe there’s one woman that you fooled and she doesn’t see it because like Eve, she’s deceived.

Show Honor to Your Wife

Here’s what Peter has to say In 1 Peter 3:7:
    Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayer may not be hindered.
In the previous verse, 1 Peter 3:6, he said that women, when it comes to marriage are prone toward, what? Fear. Fear. And you know what? Those fears that the women have about marriage are legitimate.

Your Wife Trusts You with the Rest of Her Life

If a woman marries a man, she’s trusting him with the rest of her life that he won’t hit her, cheat on her, that he’ll work hard, that he’ll pay the bills, that he’ll love their children, that he’ll finish the race well, that he’ll walk with Jesus until the end, that if she gets sick, he’ll look after her, that if she is dying, he will be faithful to her. Gentlemen, it is a terrifying thing for a woman to trust a sinful man.
Every man who reads this, even the best men among us, has areas of repentance and growth that are required.
As a man, I don’t think I fully understood this until I had daughters, and now I have some understanding of that fear. The thought of taking one of my daughters and walking them down the aisle and handing them to a man and trusting that he will love them and protect them and serve them and care for them and look after them, it causes me fear and grave concern.

Don't Give Women a Reason to Fear

Women have legitimate fears, and what Peter is saying is that men need to be a particular way so those fears are alleviated. And I love his words, “in an understanding way, showing honor.” That’s a man.
Now as I say this, many of you guys will nod your head and say, “Yeah, that’s me.”
No, you’re not. So let me practically unpack this for you. Every man who reads this, even the best men among us, has areas of repentance and growth that are required. And so I want to talk to you men about some things that your woman will fear.

1. Honor Your Wife Maritally

What this means is, gentlemen, you’re not looking for a girlfriend if you are single. You’re not looking for a roommate. You’re not looking for a cohabitation partner. You’re looking for a wife. You must honor her while dating, that is when you're on your best behavior. I don’t care if you apologize, do you repent and lead? Being sorry is not enough; being Christ-like is what is necessary.
Ephesians 5:25 says, “Husbands are to love their wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.” Are you selfless or selfish? Do you give yourself up for her or do you take from her?

What it is to be a one-woman man

When you get married, men, you are to be a one-woman man. That’s the requirement of an elder and that is the example for all men.
  • You’re not the flirt guy
  • You’re not the female buddies guy
  • You’re not the download porn guy
  • You’re not the “I got another gal on the side I always keep in case of emergency” guy
  • You’re not the wandering eye guy
If you are, you’re not honoring marriage and you’re not honoring your wife.

Don't make women fearful of men

I know some complete fools, they like to take their wedding ring off when they go out to the sports bar with the boys. Do you honor your marriage covenant? Do you take responsibility as the head of the marriage covenant, take responsibility for the well-being of the woman?
A woman has great fear. If you don’t honor marriage, she is statistically going to go into poverty upon divorce. She will become yet another single mother. She’ll have to find a way to explain to the children of why they shouldn’t be embittered against you even though you’re a loser. See, these fears are very legitimate. Women have seen this so many times that they’re fearful of men.

2. Honor Her Physically

Peter says that the woman is the “weaker vessel”. What that means is, generally speaking, if a husband and a wife get in a fist-fight, he’ll win. I’ll give you an example. Many of you have seen my wife, Grace. If we get in a fight, it’s not a fair fight. I have an 18-inch neck, she has an 18-inch waist. If someone breaks into our home, I’m not, “Go get ‘em, baby. You’re the tough one here. I’ll pray. II’ll pray imprecatory prayers in the closet.”

You know what, gentlemen? You are stronger than your woman

  • Do you ever hit her?
  • Do you ever shove her?
  • Do you ever push her?
  • Do you ever grab her, restrain her?
  • Do you ever raise a hand and threaten her?
  • Do you ever intimidate her with physical violence? 
  • Do you give her that look, that pierced, glazed, violent, angry, don’t-push-it-now’s-a-good-time-to-shut-up look?
  • Do you tell her, “I’m getting very angry, you should just shut up right now. It’s gonna go bad for you”?
  • Do you get right in her face?
  • Do you intimidate her with your presence?
Shame on you. A man who picks on a woman, what a joke.
Have you ever forced yourself on a woman? You’re a rapist.
You’ll say, “She’s my wife.” You’re a rapist.

Don't hold your wife prisoner

When someone is attacked, we call it abuse. As horrible as that is, what is even worse is torment. Torment is when you’re abused and you can’t get out. This is like prisoners of war and those who are held captive in slavery. For some women, their version of slavery and captivity and torment is called marriage. Their husband is physically intimidating. She’s afraid of him. She can’t leave, at least that’s what she thinks. She feels stuck, particularly if she’s got children. Some of you guys are tormentors and abusers and rapists and husbands and Christians, and that is absolutely inexcusable.

Women, a man who hits you is in sin

Most men don’t walk around thinking about their personal safety. I know a lot of women who do. Does she feel safe with you? Ladies, if you’re dating a guy who has ever been physically violent, run for your life, run for your children’s life, run for your grandchildren’s life. If he’s ever even threatened you with violence, there is something profoundly demonic in that man. There is something sincerely wrong in that man. He will then apologize, tell you he is sorry. He will shed a few tears, say it will never happen again and he will subtly shift the blame to you. “You know when you do that, it just makes me really angry. Don’t do that again.”
“Oh, okay, it must be my fault.” It’s never your fault. It doesn’t matter what you say or do, if a man hits you, harms you, he’s in sin, no excuse.

Head-of-the-house does not mean bully

And there are some guys, some absolute block-headed idiots who think when the Bible says that you’re the head of the home, that it means you get to be the bully. There’s nothing uglier than a guy who then takes this same disposition toward his children, especially his daughters. The grossest, vilest thing is a man who hits a woman, and the man who hits a woman is willing to hit his own daughter. It’s disgusting.

3. Honor Your Wife Emotionally

Some of you say, “I’m not emotional, I don’t connect.” You should. Men and women have the same emotions; they express them in masculine and feminine ways. Your wife needs intimacy. She wants you to know her. She wants to know you. She wants you to open up. She wants you to be passionate and loving and honest, and she wants to know you and she wants to be known by you. And the Bible says that Adam was with his wife, Eve, and he, what?
He knew her.
There are too many guys that turn marriage into a job description. He does his responsibility, she does hers, and there’s no emotional connection whatsoever. Those are guys whose sins are sins of omission. “I didn’t hit her, I didn’t yell at her.” Yeah, but you didn’t love her. You didn’t connect with her. You didn’t encourage her. You didn’t pursue her.
 Ultimately, you failed her.

4. Honor Her Verbally

How do you speak to her? Do you have nasty nicknames for her? Do you raise your voice? Do you threaten her? Do you give back-handed comments? Some of you guys would say, “I would never hit a woman.” How about with your tongue?
When you wife is not there and you’re with the boys, how do you speak of her? What do you say about her?

Dont' put your children in the middle

You know what? Your children will pick this up as well.
You start saying horrible things about your wife, and the children will be left in this horrible position of choosing between their mother and father and invariably some of the children will despise their own mother and speak evil of her in an effort to remain loyal to their father.
A division in a marriage includes the children, they’re stuck in the middle. They’re casualties of the war.

If I close my eyes, no one can see me

You men could defuse this and take away this fear by honoring her verbally. Speaking honestly, respectfully, lovingly to her and about her. Some of you guys forget. You say, “Well, Jesus isn’t there. My wife isn’t there. I get to say whatever I want.” No, Jesus is there even when your wife’s not there. God sees everything. God knows everything, and you’re not getting away with anything.

5. Honor Your Wife Financially

“If a man does not provide for the needs of his family, he’s denied the faith and worse than an unbeliever” (1 Timothy 5:8).
In Genesis, the woman’s curse was her children and submitting to her husband. The man’s curse was providing for his family. And what the weakest, most impish, worthless men among us do is, “Oh, my load is heavy. I know yours is heavy, but I need you to carry half of mine too.”  

Men, you have to work

You've got to work hard. You’ve got to out-work the other men if you want to feed your family. That’s your responsibility as a man. If you want any men to respect you, if you want your wife to respect you, if you want your children to respect you, you pay the bills. You make the money, you feed the family.
We live in this day where there are guys telling their wives,
  • “Hey, birth control, abortion”
  • “We can’t have kids”
  • “You make too much money”
  • “I don’t like responsibility.”
Shame on you.

Your wife has a maternal duty to fulfill

There’s nothing sadder than a woman who loves Jesus and wants to be a mom, and the husband keeps saying, “I’m the head of the home, no.” What he’s saying is “I’m in charge and I command you to sin, to deny all of your maternal instincts." Titus 2 says, “The woman should be homeward in her orientation.”
We’re a culture that is working hard to protect women and children, and no one has the common sense to beat on the guys who are the cause of so much of the pain.
And I know that some of you guys are going to say, “Oh, but this is outdated.” Yes, and I would say look at the condition of marriages and families in our culture and ask if it’s working.
The latest statistics indicate 40 percent of all children are born out of wedlock. It is now at the point where women aren’t even pretending they’re going to ever get married.
They go to college, get a good job, get pregnant, have a kid. They’ve lost any hope of ever finding a guy who can actually carry the load, and that’s tragic. We’re a culture that is working hard to protect women and children, and no one has the common sense to beat on the guys who are the cause of so much of the pain.

Be generous with your wife

I know guys as well, they’re not generous. I know one guy, he’s such an idiot. This guy makes decent money and he’s totally chintzy with his wife. She gets no spending money, can’t go out to coffee with the girls because he’s a total control freak and tightwad. Be honoring of your wife financially. I’m not saying you have to live at a lavish and high level. But what I am saying is live within your means, you make a budget, you tithe, spend, save, invest well. I know it’s hard to live on one income. I know it’s particularly difficult in this economic climate, but for some of you boys, it’s a built-in excuse to be irresponsible.

Run the numbers rather assuming you need a second income

Statistically, if you have children, and put them in day care so mom can work, the other costs that are associated: eating out, take-out, dry cleaning, car, second phone, cell phone, things of that nature, plus the increased tax breaks and costs and burdens very rarely contribute anything to the bottom line of the family. The taxes alone eat a huge portion of it.
MSNBC did a big study on this years ago and they brought the data to the mothers who dropped their kids off at the day care. “You’re providing nothing to the income of the family,” and the women are bawling, having a nervous breakdown on television, saying, “Well, then why am I even going to work?”
Because that guy doesn’t know how to run numbers on taxes. He’s not smart enough to find somebody to figure it out for him. He just says, “Put the kids in day care, get a job, shoulder half of my curse. Oh and by the way, I forgot to run the numbers, come to find it’s not really helping.”
Honor her financially.

6. Honor Her Practically

With some guys, the house is a wreck. It’s never finished, the furniture’s broken, the car hardly starts, they live far away from community, they don’t have a schedule, they don’t have a budget, they don’t have a plan, the wife doesn’t know what’s going on.
Honor her practically. Do you have a budget? Do you have a schedule? Do you have an integrated plan? Do you have a life?

7. Honor Her Parentally

Gentlemen, your wife wants you to love the kids. She wants you to help raise them. She wants you to love them, to pursue them. She wants you to get guy time with your sons. She wants you to get daddy dates with your daughters. She wants you to do Ephesians 6 and be their pastor. She wants you to read the Bible with them. She wants you to pray with them. And you know what? You should want that too.

Do your job

So many guys who are Christians think “I pay for Christian school, I send the wife and kids to the Christian church. I’ve done my Christian duty.” No, you’ve abdicated your responsibility to others. It’s your job to love your kids. It’s your job to pray with your kids. It’s your job to teach the Bible to your kids. It’s your job to encourage your kids. It’s your job to discipline your kids.
Christian, husband, father, employee. Those are your first four duties; it’ll take most of your life. You’re not going to have a lot of time.
A wife will be so forgiving of so many things if she actually knows her husband desperately loves their children, that he serves them, that he cares for them, that he’s tender with them, that he’s Pastor Dad for them. So few children actually have a father. So few of those actually have a Christian father and how few of those actually have a dad who’s doing his job.
And I’ll tell you what, guys, this is not something you have to do; it’s something you get to do.
This is wonderful. Every night, my daughter Alexie, blond hair, blue eyes and looks like Tinkerbell says, “Poppa Daddy, I need a piggyback ride and a Bible story.” You know what? I do too. I need that as much as Alexie. I weep thinking of the day that I’m not going to be giving her piggyback rides, so I give her as many piggyback rides as I can because it’s a great season and a wonderful opportunity.

Honor your priorities

What this means, gentlemen, is your priorities will be Christian, husband, father, employee. Those are your first four duties; it’ll take most of your life. You’re not gonna have a lot of time. You're probably gonna need to put down your tools, your hobbies, your car, your projects, your golf clubs, your Xbox and probably going to need to put down the remote control, and your laptop, and your iPod to honor your wife parentally. You’re not going to have a lot of time for a lot of other things.  
Gentlemen, your goal is not to stand before God and tell him what level you got to on “World of Warcraft”.


8. Honor Her Spiritually

All of this comes down to this point.
There are between 11 and 13 million more Christian women than men. Many women go to church on their own. They have to drag their husband to church, they drag their children to church. It is your job, men, to lead spiritually. You pray with the family. You read the Bible with the family. You pick a good church, become a member of it, submit to it. You pick the community group or midweek class you will be in. You are the one to lead the family spiritually.

Start with a prayer

Some guys say, “Well, I don’t know what to do.” Just start by praying with your wife. There are women who will read this sermon and deep down in their heart, this is what they want the most, “If my husband would just pray with me.”
There are some of you guys, you pray with all kinds of people, you don’t pray with your wife. Do you pray with your wife? Do you pray with your kids? Do you read the Bible with your wife? Do you talk about Jesus with your wife? Do you talk about Jesus with your kids?
Leading spiritually is the foundation of everything else.

John Piper's Top 10 Christian Biographies

Another Incentive to Read Christian Biography

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For starters, here are ten of my favorites:
Perhaps, Hebrews 11 is still the most compelling biblical mandate for reading Christian biography. Together with Hebrews 13:7 all those biographical lessons in faith seem like an overwhelming summons to keep finding such stories and “considering” them.
Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.” (Hebrews 13:7).
But Philippians 3:17, together with 1 Corinthians 11:1, add something remarkable to the motivation. Paul says, “Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ” (1 Corinthians 11:1). And then in Philippians 3:17 he takes this out three generations beyond Christ.
“Brothers, join in imitating me, and fix your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us.” (Philippians 3:17).
Notice the sequence:
  1. Jesus lives the perfect life for imitation.
  2. Paul imitates Jesus.
  3. Others “walk according to the example they have in us.”
  4. Finally, we fix our eyes on those who follow Paul’s example.
What makes this so remarkable is that Paul says it is spiritually wise to consider not just Jesus’ life, and not just the lives of those who follow him, but also the lives of those who follow those who follow him.
This seems to imply that the line of inspiration and imitation goes on and on.
Indeed it does. And the centuries are laden with the lives of saved sinners whose failures and triumphs of grace are meant to inspire and strengthen and guide the rest of us.
So among all the other things you do to grow in the knowledge and grace of Christ (2 Peter 3:18), follow Paul’s summons to “fix your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us.”
For starters, here are ten of my favorites:

Frontier Missions: DVD highlights from missions DVDs

This post is taken from Justin Taylor's excellent blog. View the whole post here.

A Front-Row Seat for Frontier Missions
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I cannot recommend too highly these DVDs from the ministry Dispatches from the Front. Who knows what might happen if churches and small groups and families were to watch these videos together, open to God’s leading for going and sending? It is a risk to watch them. But the motivation is gospel grace, not guilt.

Below are some trailers and excerpts. I hope many churches in particular will choose to motivate and encourage their people with these excellent films.






Some endorsements:
“Are you afraid to open your eyes and see death and destruction in the world? Dispatches from the Front will open your eyes to the great needs of the lost, enflame your heart to go to the nations, and give you the courage to carry on the ministry of the Gospel of Jesus Christ for the glory of God. This is a bold call to action.”


—Burk Parsons, pastor, author, editor of Tabletalk magazine
Dispatches offers a potent reminder that in the darkest places, the gospel shines brightest. It should come with a warning label. Danger: Graphic scenes of mission reality that will disrupt your comfort and ignite your heart for God’s work on the frontlines. Pray, watch and act!”

—Dave Harvey, Sovereign Grace Ministries – Church Planting & Missiology
Frontline Missions is perhaps too modestly named. Its ministry often reaches behind the frontlines to those areas and peoples that are in greatest need of hearing the soul-saving gospel of Christ and receiving the compassionate assistance of God’s people. These ministries aren’t carried on in ‘hit and run’ fashion. Care is taken to train Christian leaders and to raise up and nourish responsible churches that will carry the work forward into the otherwise uncertain future of unreached and unbelieving peoples all around the world.”


—Dr. David J. Hesselgrave, Emeritus Professor of Missions, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, co-founder and past president, The Evangelical Missiological Society
“Paul tells us that the gospel comes to people (Colossians 1:5-6). The gospel, in a manner of speaking, searches people groups out in every corner of the world, and when it comes to them, it wonderfully bears fruit and grows among them (v. 6). Dispatches from the Front provides us with an inside look at the gospel doing its life-changing work in the forgotten places of the world. If you want to expand your vision of what God is doing in the world through the gospel, Dispatches from the Front will serve you, your family, and your church family extremely well.”

—Dan Cruver, Director of Together for Adoption


Tuesday 31 May 2011

Conferences


(John Piper)
Every year John Piper organises a National Conference and a Pastor's Conference.


Bi-Yearly mega-conference. Excellent stuff! Usually the reformed camp speakers like Tim Keller, Mark Dever, D.A.Carson, Driscoll, Piper, etc.
2011 Conference 
2009 Conference
2007 Conference





(Terry Virgo)
Newfrontiers is a Reformed Charismatic movement of churches who are passionate about planting churches worldwide. They organise a yearly conference.





Together for the Gospel
Ligon Duncan, Mark Dever, Albert Mohler, and C. J. Mahaney orginally set this up. They have organised a conference every 2 years beginning 2006


Reformed, Charismatic, Missional
Conference organised by NFI USA including sessions by Jeff Vanderstelt, Terry Virgo, Elliot Grudem.

Gospel Coalition 2011 Conference Audio (Plenary Sessions & Workshops): Bible Teaching Mp3s

Links to the Mp3s of the Gospel Coalition Conference 2011. Just right click and save the files to download.




Plenary Sessions
Tuesday, April 12
2:00 PM Session 1: R. Albert Mohler, Jr.: "Studying the Scriptures and Finding Jesus" (John 5:31-47)
4:00 PM Session 2: Tim Keller: "Getting Out" (Exodus 14)
7:00 PM Session 3: Alistair Begg: "From a Foreigner to King Jesus" (Ruth)
8:00 PM Session 4: Panel Discussion: Preaching from the Old TestamentPanel: Tim Keller, John Piper, Crawford Loritts, Don Carson, Bryan Chapell
Wednesday, April 13
9:30 AM Session 5: James MacDonald: "Not According to Our Sins" (Psalm 25)
7:00 PM Session 6: Conrad Mbewe: “The Righteous Branch” (Jeremiah 23:1-8)
8:30 PM Session 7: Matt Chandler: "Youth" (Ecclesiastes 11:7-12:14)
Thursday, April 14
9:30 AM Session 8: Mike Bullmore: "God's Great Heart of Love Toward His Own" (Zephaniah)
11:00 AM Session 9: Don Carson: "Getting Excited about Melchizedek" (Psalm 110)

Workshops

2011 Gospel Coalition Workshops (MP3s)

The following files are in MP3 formats. To download, right click and save to your hard drive.
Training the Next Generation of Pastors and Other Christian Leaders
R. Albert Mohler, Jr. Mark Driscoll, David Helm, Don Carson, and Ligon Duncan
The Pastor’s Counseling Ministry
David Powlison
The Gospel for Muslims
Thabiti Anyabwile
Is Your Church a Safe Place for Sad People? Learning to Walk with Each Other Through Loss
Nancy Guthrie
Old Testament Narrative: Letting the Literature Speak
Kathleen B. Nielson
Women Teaching Women the Bible: A Suggested Model
Jenny Salt
Justification Versus Self-Justification
Ray Ortlund Jr.
Preaching a Christ to Whom We Can Come
Colin Smith
Orphans and Adoption
Russell Moore and Voddie Baucham
Power Through Weakness
Tim Savage
Signs of Grace in Inner-City Church Planting
Eric Mason
Gospel Faithfulness and Business Leadership in Tumultuous Times
Bob Doll

What Should a Local Church Look Like?

Tim Keller, Crawford Loritts, and Mark Dever
Pastoring with Discernment: Applying the Gospel to the Hearts of Those You Serve
C. J. Mahaney
Asian American Christian Thought and Theological History: Pastoral Implications for Diversity and Innovation in a Multiracial Church
Stephen Um and Julius Kim
An Invitation to Hispanic Pastors and Would-Be Pastors
Juan Sanchez
Humble Orthodoxy
Josh Harris
Gospel-Centered Pastoral Leadership
Sandy Willson
The Feminist Mistake
Mary Kassian
Literary Beauty and Gospel Truth: Celebrating the Biblical Union
Kathleen B. Nielson
Pure Desire: Gospel-Centered Morality in a Sex-Saturated Society
Gary Inrig
Mixing Whites and Colors Without Making Them Run: Building Gospel-Centered, Intentionally Multicultural Churches
John Mahaffey
‘They All Look Alike To Me’: The Implications of a Christ-Centered Identity on the Issue of Racial Reconciliation in the Church
K. Edward Copeland
Writing Corporate Worship Music
Keith and Kristyn Getty
The Spirit-Filled Missional Ministry of Jesus
Mark Driscoll
Trellis and Vine
Tony Payne and Colin Marshall
Fostering a Praying Church
Scotty Smith
The Genesis of Gender
Mary Kassian
When Despair Invades Gospel Work: Learning from Elijah
Paige Benton Brown
One-on-One Discipleship: Grass-Roots Church Growth
Jenny Salt
Biblical Theology: What It Is and Why It Matters
Stephen Um and Richard Lints
Substitutes for the Gospel: A Modest Critique of Modern Evangelicalism
Erwin Lutzer
The Mission of the Church
Kevin DeYoung and Greg Gilbert
Questioning Evangelism
Randy Newman
The Heart of the Expositor
Kent Hughes
Leading Corporate Worship Music
Keith Getty
Seizing Global Gospel Opportunities: Why and How You and Your Church Can Get Involved
Michael Oh

Monday 30 May 2011