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Building the Church with the Gospel: Don Carson
St. Helen’s Bishopsgate Church in London recently hosted the SEGP 2011 Extended Weekend with Don Carson speaking a lengthy series on Building the Church with the Gospel. The messages are:
Only One Life: Why Consider Full Time Gospel Ministry
Only One Life: Q&A
The Rich Man and Lazarus
The Parable of the Talents
Living & Serving in Light of the End
Preserving the Gospel and Gospel Churches
Leaders Who Build Churches Part 1
Leaders Who Build Churches Part 2
I am really looking forward to this series as soon as my current iPod load clears up, and then I will post more about it.
Building the Church with the Gospel >>>
Church 101 for Church Members
9 Marks provides a session on Church 101 for church members. What does it mean to be a member of a church? What should you expect from church, and what are your responsibilities to the church?
Pastors Who No Longer Believe — Get Out!
Al Mohler provides some great advice to the theologically degenerate.
Why We Love The Church
Kevin DeYoung gave 6 sermons surrounding his book ‘Why We Love The Church’ , co-authored with Ted Kluck, at a Family Camp last summer for Harvest Orthodox Presbyterian Church.
2010 Shepherd’s Conference
The Shepherd’s Conference is one of those conferences that seldom disappoints, if ever. While this years conference didn’t have the “bang” of previous years, it was nonetheless edifying and challenging, with the old standbys in the pulpit: MacArthur, Johnson, Holland and Lawson.
Surprising Offense of Gods Love: Church Membership
Are you excited about the subject of church membership? I didn’t think so. Be warned, after you hear this discussion you will probably be eager to buy Jonathan Leeman’s book, The Church and the Surprising Offense of God’s Love.
Jonathan Leeman, Matt Schmucker, John Folmar and Mark Dever gather to talk about this book and the subject of church membership.
The consumeristic mindset, the multiplicity of options, and the worry of buyers remorse, hinders people from making commitments in everything from jobs, to spouses, to restaurants, to houses. Commitment binds us. And in a culture where the maximization of short term pleasure is a premium, binding commitments are threatening. Binding commitments are made to prevent individuals from living by caprice and fancy. They are freedom curtailing. They are pleasure postponing.
Leeman, obviously, is pro church membership, and he, as well as the other participants, makes a very strong case for church membership independent of church polity.
This is one discussion that is perhaps one of 9 Marks best, in my opinion. I’ve ordered the book.
9 Marks Conference
Colin Adams has posted audio from a recent 9 Marks Conference held in Northern Ireland at Colin’s church.
I haven’t listened to the conference yet, but posting this because the audio will only be available for 60 days.
Loving the Church
Ted Kluck joins Christ the Center to discuss his book Why We Love the Church which he coauthored with Kevin DeYoung. Ted offers a lot of helpful insights in thinking about the church, how to handle challenges, when to leave a church and when not to, and how many contemporary church movements have lost the beauty of what the church was designed to be.
This was a very enjoyable conversation.
Nashville Conference on the Church & Theology 2009
John MacArthur and Bruce Ware join Bryon Yawn at the 2009 Nashville Conference.
Right off the bat MacArthur delivers some of the best messages I’ve heard this year. He begins in session one by reflecting over the core convictions of his ministry that he formed early on and have not let go of since. These convictions happen to be Trinitarian: The Glory of God, the Lordship of Jesus Christ, and the work of the Holy Spirit in Scripture.
There is so much to talk about regarding his messages. But perhaps the most needed, is he relates the story of when he met a ministry friend who told him about this incredible book about how IBM was structured, and why pastors needed these lessons. MacArthur asked this man, “Why, is the Word of God deficient somewhere?”
MacArthur also talks about why he does church discipline. Again, early in his ministry other pastors told him he would empty his church. It never happened. If you are a church planter or pastor who buys a lot of contemporary books on how to “do church” you need to listen to a pastor who saw God build His church apart from all the books, programs, polls, and expert opinions. Listening to MacArthur is like a breath of fresh air in a day when the church looks more to Starbucks for it’s ecclesiology than it does the Apostle Paul.
Above Every Name pt. 1, John MacArthur
Above Every Name pt. 2, John MacArthur
Above Every Name pt. 3, John MacArthur
Beholding the God of Merciful Holiness; Transcendence, Immanence & Ministry, Bruce Ware
An Overwhelming Greatness, Bryon Yawn
Beholding the God of Self-Sufficient Fullness; Humility, Satisfaction & Ministry, Bruce Ware
Beholding the God of Sovereign Supremacy; Good, Evil & Ministry, Bruce Ware
Slaves of Christ, John MacArthur
Advance 09
John Piper gathers a group of men who have a heart for the church to talk about various issues facing the church: Bryan Chapell, Matt Chandler, Ed Stetzer, Danny Akin, Tyler Jones and Mark Driscoll.
There were some messages that stood out to me. Piper always is a treat to listen to and learn from.
As much as I have been struggling with Driscoll lately, his message “Mission Idolatry” was good stuff, much of the material drawn from G.K. Beale’s book We Become What We Worship, but applied to church and missions.
Ed Stetzer’s message “Keys to Understanding the Church” and the Kingdom does a good job of examining how many church plants and missional (I’m really getting sick of this term) movements have derailed from the purpose of the church.
