D.A. Carson series on the Story of the bible (14 part): Bible Teaching Mp3s

In February 2009, Don Carson presented a 14-part seminar entitled “The God Who Is There” at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis. This series will serve the church well because it simultaneously evangelizes non-Christians and edifies Christians by explaining the Bible’s storyline in a non-reductionistic way. The series is geared toward “seekers” and articulates Christianity in a way that causes hearers either to reject or embrace the gospel. It’s one thing to know the Bible’s storyline, but it’s another to know one’s role in God’s ongoing story of redemption. “The God Who Is There” engages people at the worldview-level.

Full audio and video are now available for free for the
entire 14 part series: Download the mp3s directly here, or follow the links in the 'view media' section below.

Get all 14 MP3s in an RSS Feed Here, or right in iTunes here.
Each MP3 can be downloaded here (video preview links found at original post):

1. The God Who Made Everything | MP3
2. The God Who Does Not Wipe Out Rebels | MP3
3. The God Who Writes His Own Agreements | MP3
4. The God Who Legislates | MP3
5. The God Who Reigns | MP3
6. The God Who Is Unfathomably Wise | MP3
7. The God Who Becomes a Human Being | MP3
8. The God Who Grants New Birth | MP3
9. The God Who Loves | MP3
10. The God Who Dies—and Lives Again | MP3
11. The God Who Declares the Guilty Just | MP3
12. The God Who Gathers and Transforms His People | MP3
13. The God Who Is Very Angry | MP3
14. The God Who Triumphs | MP3

Enjoy.

1. The God Who Made Everything View Media
2. The God Who Does Not Wipe Out Rebels View Media
3. The God Who Writes His Own Agreements View Media
4. The God Who Legislates View Media
5. The God Who Reigns View Media
6. The God Who Is Unfathomably Wise View Media
7. The God Who Becomes a Human Being View Media
8. The God Who Grants New Birth View Media
9. The God Who Loves View Media
10. The God Who Dies—and Lives Again View Media
11. The God Who Declares the Guilty Just View Media
12. The God Who Gathers and Transforms His People View Media
13. The God Who Is Very Angry View Media
14. The God Who Triumphs View Media

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Manhood: Bible Teaching Mp3s

The Image & Glory of God
Matt Chandler (The Village)
6 part series on Manhood. It's really excellent.

Conference Building Strong Families in Your Church
Various speakers inc. John Piper, Daniel Doriani, Wayne Grudem, etc.

Gender in the Home & in the Church Conference (CBMW)
5 part conference on why gender matters and then Gender in the family and the church and raising sons and daughters.

Robert Lewis
Two talks by Robert Lewis about biblical manhood and discipleship of men. They're awesome!
Reclaiming Biblical Manhood in the Home
Teaching Manhood to Men

Matt Chandler 6 part mp3 teachings series on Manhood

Matt Chandler did a Men's Bible Study back in 2008 at the Village Church titled The Image & Glory of God. We thought it's a great series on manhood so we wanted to repost it here as a resource. Find more studies and seminars from the Village Church.

To download, right click the title or study guide and "Save Link As"

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God's Word: Jonathan Leeman (Reverberation author) Bible Teaching Mp3s

(from 9 marks blog) How should we as Christians view God's Word?  How does God's Word give life to a congregation?  Is God's Word really that important in the local church?  Jonathan Leeman (author of Reverberation) recently had the opportunity to encourage and instruct some church members in Graham, Texas by considering these questions and more.  Jonathan spoke at Graham Bible Church, where he gave four talks on God's Word:

Session 1 - The Power of God's Word:  AUDIO | VIDEO
Session 2 - The Preaching of God's Word:  AUDIO | VIDEO
Session 3 - The Content of God's Word:  AUDIO | VIDEO
Session 4 - The Reverberation of God's Word: AUDIO | VIDEO
This is a great resource for both pastors and church members, as it provides a solid vision for the authority and centrality of God's Word.  Our hope is that this resource will equip you to better serve in you church.

Christianity Explored Website - Introducing people to Christianity

This website is designed to help people explore christianity in their own time. You can access it here.

There are a lot of videos on the site which should be helpful for people in our generation. There's a six minute video on the gospel, then there's a section of videos on Tough Questions with videos from Vaughan Roberts and Tim Keller, and also a section of videos with Real Life Stories from Christians. Finally you can also find a course near you.

Beautiful Photographs from the Hebrides from National Geographic

You can see the whole gallery here.

Zoomable Satellite Photographs of Japan Before & After the tsunami

To see the gallery of zoomable satellite images of Japan before and after the tsunami go here.

World's Largest Cave in Vietnam: National Geographic Photos

There’s a jungle inside Vietnam’s mammoth cavern. A skyscraper could fit too. Hear author Mark Jenkins and National Geographic's Boyd Matson talk about what could be considered the largest cave in the world, the 2.5-mile Hang Son Doong, or “mountain river cave,” along the Vietnam-Laos border. 

See the gallery of photos on the National Geographic website here. Or take a look at a selection of the pictures below.

Beautiful Plains Milky Way timelapse sequence to music: Video

I've posted timelapse videos from this guy before. They're really amazing.


Plains Milky Way from Randy Halverson on Vimeo.

Photographs with moving elements

otThese photos all have one part of the photo that moves. It's interesting. They're taken from this website.

Moving Pictures: Stunning Photographs Brought to Life

By Delana in Architecture & Design, Gadgets & Geek Art, Urban Images

The world has been entranced by photographs since their invention well over a century ago. When video came along, however, that was even better. Somewhere along the way, we have learned to love both still and moving images. Now, well into the 21st century, a team of artists is combining them in a fantastically unusual way.



Photographer Jamie Beck and her partner Kevin Burg, who has a background in video and motion graphics, take beautiful photographs and turn them into something that rests comfortably between photography and video.


Their creations are called cinemagraphs: still photos with small elements of movement. They retain all of the exquisite composure of still photographs but add a surprising bit of motion that is absolutely mesmerizing.


The effect can be just the tiniest bit creepy when you aren’t expecting it: the eyes of a model moving suddenly or a reflection whizzing by in a storefront window are disconcerting at first. However, these cinemagraphs are exceptionally beautiful once you move past the initial startle reflex.


According to Beck and Burg, their work is just a little more than photographs and a bit less than video. Many of the movements are so subtle that you don’t notice them at first. The bigger movements tend to look almost like video, but it is these subtle movements that make these photos so intriguing.

Creating this movement effect is a rather painstaking process, taking from several hours to an entire day to complete for each photograph. The finished photographs are GIFs, which many of us remember as those annoying animations from the early days of the Internet. Beck and Burg’s artistry, however, have taken GIFs from a distraction to an art form.


Photographer Jamie Beck says of her work: “There’s something magical about a still photograph – a captured moment in time – that can simultaneously exist outside the fraction of a second the shutter captures.”

(all images used with permission of Jamie Beck. Thanks, Jamie!)

Photographs showing the level of the crisis in Yemen

These photos show the level of the crisis in Yemen. Photos are taken from the excellent In Focus press photo website. Be careful, some of the images here are really disturbing showing those killed in the crisis. How do we pray about this? Our Father, may Your kingdom come. May the gospel go out in Yemen bringing many people to Jesus and new life. May Your rule come in the lives of Your children in Yemen bringing peace and love. May Your kingdom come in its fullness when all the spears will be bent into plowshears.

Crisis in Yemen

Jun 3, 2011 | 4

Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh was reportedly wounded today in a rocket attack on his compound in Sanaa. Yemeni government troops have been engaged in street fights with tribal groups loyal to Sheikh Sadeq al-Ahmar for nearly two weeks now, after al-Ahmar sided with thousands of Yemeni protesters who have been peacefully demonstrating and calling for President Saleh's ouster for nearly four months now. Government forces have opened fire on protesters many times over those months, killing and wounding dozens. Adding further complications, Islamist militants, possibly tied to Al Qaeda, are now taking advantage of the chaos and instability, and have seized control of several towns in along Yemen's south coast. Collected here are images from the past several weeks of troubled Yemen, a country that may soon be mired in a civil war. [36 photos]

An anti-government protester flashes the victory sign through a gap in his national flag raised by other demonstrators during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, on Saturday, March 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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A view of the old city of Sanaa, Yemen, is seen on Sunday, May 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed) #

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Tens of thousands of Yemenis take to the streets on March 31, 2011 in the town of Ibb, 190 km southwest of Sanaa, calling for the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. (AFP/Getty Images) #

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Anti-government protesters attend a demonstration demanding the resignation of President Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, on Friday, May 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Mohammed Hamoud) #

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An anti-government protester holds up a scarf reading, in Arabic, "My country, I love you my country", during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, on Sunday, May 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) #

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An anti-government protester, center, wearing a red scarf, looks up while praying with other women during a demonstration demanding the resignation of President Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, on Wednesday, April 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) #

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An effigy of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh hangs from a street lamp, placed by a protester in Sanaa, on May 17, 2011. (Reuters/Ahmed Jadallah) #

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Anti-government protesters are carried by a bulldozer during a demonstration to demand the ouster of Yemen's President Saleh in Damt town of the southern Dhalea province, on May 20, 2011. (Reuters/Stringer) #

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In this photo taken through a window, armored vehicles of Yemeni security forces, take position in a street next to the house of Sheik Sadeq al-Ahmar, the head of the powerful Hashid tribe, during clashes with tribesmen loyal to him, in Sanaa, on Tuesday, May 31, 2011. Heavy fighting resumed Tuesday in Yemen's capital between government troops and followers of the country's most powerful tribal leader, ending a brief cease-fire and again raising the prospect that Yemen's political crisis could veer into civil war. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed) #

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Men loyal to tribal leader Sadiq al-Ahmar, stand near a fragment from a projectile fired during clashes this week, in Sanaa, on May 28, 2011. (Reuters/Khaled Abdullah) #

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Police use water cannons to disperse anti-government protesters during clashes with police in the southern Yemeni city of Taiz, on May 29, 2011. Yemeni security forces opened fire on protesters in the southern city of Taiz on Sunday, killing four and wounding 90, hospital sources said. (Reuters/Khaled Abdullah) #

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Smoke rises during clashes between police forces and armed tribesmen loyal to tribal leader Shiekh Sadiq al-Ahmar near his house in Sanaa, on May 24, 2011. (Reuters/Stringer) #

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A protester walks past a burning vehicle during a protest strike paralyzing the southern Yemeni city of Aden, on April 9, 2011, as protesters kept up the heat on President Saleh to step down. (AFP/Getty Images) #

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Anti-government protesters raise their hands while chanting slogans demanding the resignation of President Saleh, in Sanaa, on Friday, May 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed) #

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Yemeni protesters perform Friday noon prayers during a rally against President Saleh in the streets of Ibb, on May 13, 2011, 190 km southwest of Sanaa, before the elite Republican Guards opened fire on the anti-regime protesters killing at least three people. (AFP/Getty Images) #

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A Yemeni boy, center, holding his national flag, stands between anti-government protesters attending Friday prayers during a demonstration demanding the resignation of President Saleh, in Sanaa, on March 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) #

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Yemeni anti-government protesters tear apart and devour a loaf of bread as others shout slogans during a demonstration demanding the resignation of President Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, on on April 2, 2011. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images) #

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An anti-government protestor flashes the victory sign while chanting slogans during a demonstration demanding the resignation of President Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, on Tuesday, March 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) #

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People gather in a street of Taiz, south of Yemen's capital Sanaa, on April 4, 2011 after Yemeni security forces shot dead 17 anti-regime demonstrators and wounded scores more, on the second day of lethal clashes in the city. (AFP/Getty Images) #

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Anti-government protesters block the road during clashes with Yemeni security forces in Taiz, Yemen, Monday, May 9, 2011. Witnesses and medics said Yemeni security forces opened fire on protesters in a flashpoint city in the country's south in a bid to break up a day-old sit-in, killing two protesters. (AP Photo/Yemen Lens) #

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Anti-government protesters carry a boy shot in the head during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, March 18, 2011. Yemeni security forces fired from rooftops toward demonstrators as tens of thousands of anti-government demonstrators gathered in central Sanaa, killing at least 31. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) #

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Backdropped by a Yemeni flag, a female anti-government protester, during a demonstration demanding the resignation of of President Saleh, in Sanaa, on Sunday, April 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) #

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Yemeni security forces arrest a man during anti-regime demonstrations in Taiz, the second most-populated city of Yemen, south of Sanaa, on April 20, 2011, as the Yemeni opposition called for mass protests after deadly confrontations with police. (AFP/Getty Images) #

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Anti-government protesters run after soldiers opened fire to disperse them as they began gathering for a demonstration to demand the ouster of Yemen's President Saleh in the southern city of Taiz, on May 31, 2011. (Reuters/Khaled Abdullah) #

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Belongings of a dead anti-government protestor are left on his body in a mosque, during clashes with security forces in Sanaa, Yemen, on Friday, March 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) #

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People ride a vehicle with their belongings as they flee clashes in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, on May 29, 2011. (Reuters/Khaled Abdullah) #

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A relative of Ahmad Saleh, who was wounded last Wednesday in clashes with Yemeni security forces and died of his wounds on Saturday, reacts during his funeral procession at the site of a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Saleh, in Sanaa, on Sunday, May 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) #

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Tribesmen take positions next to the house of Sheik Sadeq al-Ahmar, the head of the powerful Hashid tribe, during clashes with Yemeni security forces in Sanaa, on Tuesday, May 24, 2011. Fighters for Yemen's largest tribe sealed off key government buildings and barricaded streets in the heart of the capital Tuesday as the revolt against President Ali Abdullah Saleh sharply escalated after militiamen turned their guns against government forces. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed) #

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A wounded man lying in a hospital bed is checked by a nurse after being injured in clashes with Yemeni security forces in Sanaa, on Monday, May 23, 2011. Buildings in Sanaa were blasted and government offices set on fire in an eruption of violence after President Ali Abdullah Saleh refused to sign an agreement calling on him to step down. (AP Photo) #

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Anti-government protesters raise their hands during a rally to demand the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa May 6, 2011. Tens of thousands of Yemenis took to the streets both for and against Saleh on Friday, a day after Gulf efforts to revive a plan for him to leave power were stymied by conditions attached by his party. (Reuters/Khaled Abdullah) #

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Defecting army soldiers shout slogans as they take part in a rally to demand the ouster of Yemen's President Saleh in Sanaa, on May 27, 2011. (Reuters/Ammar Awad) #

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A boy shouts slogans during a rally to demand the ouster of Yemen's President Saleh in Sanaa, on May 24, 2011. (Reuters/Khaled Abdullah) #

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A Yemeni army soldier is lifted by anti-government protesters during a demonstration demanding the resignation of President Saleh, in Sanaa, on Friday, May 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed) #

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A tribesman loyal to Sheik Sadeq al-Ahmar, the head of the powerful Hashid tribe, stands next to a wall damaged following clashes with Yemeni security forces, next to al-Ahmar's house, in Sanaa, on Saturday, May 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed) #

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Fire and smoke erupts during clashes between tribesmen loyal to Sheik Sadeq al-Ahmar, the head of the powerful Hashid tribe, and Yemeni security forces in Sanaa, Yemen, late Thursday, June 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Mohammed Hamoud) #