Multnomah Publishers (soon to be a part of Random House) has released a DVD series from John Piper ( The Blazing Center–DVDs ). Captured speaking before high school students, Piper summarizes for a young audience the controversial but thoroughly biblical concept that God is the center of the universe, and the only delight that will …
Category Archive: Theology Matters
Aug 05 2006
Desiring God Radio Podcast | John Piper
Podcast Recommendation Today’s featured podcasts comes from Desiring God Ministries in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Desiring God Ministries exists to proclaim this truth: God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him. This daily 30 minute program features God-centered messages and commentary from pastor John Piper. Piper is an engaging theologian and popular …
Aug 02 2006
Reform and Resurge Conference MP3 Downloads
Featured Podcast Audio and video is now available from the Reform and Resurge Conference in Seattle. New downloads are still being posted weekly. If you’re involved in ministry in an urban, young, contemporary setting, or if you are involved in a church plant virtually anywhere, you’ll find these sessions invaluable to you. Speakers include Mark …
Jul 22 2006
Establishing Elder Government in Church Plants
Mark Driscoll has posted the notes from a seminar he teaches on the subject of "Establishing Elder Government in Church Plants." Driscoll articulates, in typical humorous yet dead serious fashion, the biblical mandates and principles as they relate to church government, and the non-negotiable biblical qualifications for those who lead the church. "The key to …
Jul 22 2006
Part Three: Musical Mush
Part two of the commentary initiated by Chuck Colson yesterday, as a followup to controversial comments made about worship in February. During recent decades, many a church has found itself foundering on the rocks when it comes to what kind of music to use in worship. Cultural change, like a fast moving tide, has left …
Jul 11 2006
Guest Author David Naugle | Worldview, Worship, and Way of Life: How Worship Helps Us See the World
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be. World without end. Alleluia, Amen. There are three sets of questions that the title of this talk evokes. Let me try to state them as succinctly as possible. First …
Jul 11 2006
LOST and found: The Missing Stanza of Amazing Grace
4 8 15 16 23 42 LOST: an original stanza of the song Amazing Grace Without a doubt one of the most popular Christian songs of all time, Amazing Grace was written in the late 1700s by John Newton, a slave trader prone to drunkeness, revelry and profane living. After his dramatic conversion to Christ …
Jul 11 2006
John Piper | Don’t Waste Your Life
As we meet tonight on this 29th of December, 2003 the body count of those killed in the earthquake in Bam, Iran stands at about 25,000. That’s a lot of human beings snuffed out in one morning. You feel the personal magnitude of it when you read of a father digging for his family and …
Jul 10 2006
What’s in a Song?
Chuck Colson’s Breakpoint is rerunning a fine article by Campus Pastor Kevin Twit entitled "What’s in a Song?" In recent years, PBS aired a documentary titled The Merchants of Cool. The program revealed how the various media conglomerates shape our understanding of what “cool” is, and then steer the buying taste of our youth in …
Jul 09 2006
Seattle Pastor Mark Driscoll interviewed by Christianity Today
From Christianity Today: Men Are from Mars HillMark Driscoll praises Jesus, blasts mega-churches, and extols Reformed theology. Among the snippets: Traditional churches have either leaned toward being fundamentalist and separated from culture, which has led to legalism and irrelevance; or they have leaned toward being liberally synchronized with culture, which leads to compromise and irrelevance. …
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