Watch The Gospel Coalition Conference live
The Gospel Coalition‘s 2009 National Conference in Chicago begins tomorrow (Wednesday) morning Australian time – and video of the main sessions will be streamed live on the web.
Chicago is 15 hours behind Sydney, so, for example, John Piper’s address at 4:00pm CDT can be seen live at 7:00am Wednesday in Sydney. To watch Don Carson’s closing address, you’d need to tune in at 2:00am Sydney time on Thursday. (Or hope for a replay!) Details here.
Re-imagining God in the Shack
“It was at a Maundy Thursday service at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan, in 1984, that a four-foot bronze statue of Jesus on the cross was unveiled. But to the shock of the congregation, the image of Christ on the cross was, in fact, an image of Christa. It portrayed Christ as a woman, complete with undraped breasts and rounded hips. …”
– Mary Kassian, well known to Sydney Anglicans from her visits in the 90s, adds her concerns about The Shack. At Girls Gone Wise. (h/t/ Tim Challies)
No cheap grace
John Piper:
“Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a gift to my generation of students. I pray that his costly message will be rediscovered in each generation. …
Bonhoeffer’s book was a massive indictment of the “cheap grace” that he saw in the Christian Church on both sides of the Atlantic. He believed in justification by grace through faith. But he did not believe that the faith that justifies could ever leave people unchanged by the radical Christ they claim to believe. That was a cheap response to the Gospel. …”
– From Chapter 4 of John Piper’s book “Don’t Waste Your Life”.
Available online in PDF format and for the iPhone.
(And, while you’re at it, listen to this challenging message.)
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…