Proclamation Trust Preachers Weekend 2011

The Proclamation Trust has made available videos from its 2011 Preachers Weekend.

Vaughan Roberts and Adrian Reynolds taught and modelled preaching. See the talks at Vimeo.

A Prayer for Japan

John Piper has posted ‘A Prayer for Japan’ at the Desiring God blog.

(General prayer resources for Japan at Operation World.)

Do you treasure God’s Word?

This ten minute video is a wonderful challenge to the apathy of many western Christians towards reading the Bible.

(h/t Justin Taylor and many others.)

R C Sproul — free audiobook March 2011

This month’s free audiobook from ChristianAudio is R C Sproul’s The Holiness of God. (180MB for the mp3 version, 95MB for the M4B version.)

Last year Tim Challies promoted the book in his ‘Reading Classics Together’ series.

Preaching Christ from the Old Testament

Justin Taylor draws attention to a project to draw together resources relating to preaching Christ in the Old Testament.

On the Gospel Coalition website, it includes featured resources from David Jackman, John Woodhouse, Tim Keller and Sinclair Ferguson.

Don Carson on the Church — at YEMA

Don Carson spoke at the 2011 Yorkshire Evangelical Ministry Assembly two weeks ago. His topic? The Church.

The Yorkshire Gospel Partnership has graciously made the audio files available on their website. (h/t Unashamed Workman.)

2011 DG Conference for Pastors

Audio and video from the 2011 Desiring God Conference for Pastors is now available on the Desiring God website.

This year’s theme: The Powerful Life of the Praying Pastor.

Adopted for Life — free audiobook

This month’s free audiobook from ChristianAudio is Adopted for Life, by Russell Moore at the Southern Baptist Seminary.

Free during February 2011.

Mary Kassian on Girls Gone Wise

We’ve mentioned Mary Kassian’s book Girls Gone Wise before (1, 2). Earlier this month she was interviewed on a Canadian Christian TV programme about the cultural pressures facing young women today. Watch it here.

Ask Phillip

“Ask Phillip includes short and pithy answers from Phillip Jensen to all your questions about Christianity.” – a terrific resource from reasonforhope.tv.

Several of these videos are featured at phillipjensen.com, including “Is A Minister A Priest?”

Since the videos are hosted at Vimeo, they could be embedded on church websites or downloaded for use as discussion-starters in small groups.

Excited all over again by the Reformation

Mark Thompson:

“This is a book to share with the family as you encourage them to look at the Christian family album and rejoice in those who have proclaimed and defended the gospel before us, often at great cost. In an age when the Reformation is sidelined by some in the interests of Christian reunification, this is a must read. …

I cannot recommend the book highly enough. Every Christian home should have a copy.”

– high praise indeed for Andrew Atherstone’s just-published book, The Reformation: Faith and Flames. Read why here.

(From Moore Books, locally, or further afield.)

For a recent article by Andrew Atherstone, see here.

Expositions for Expositors — John Woodhouse on 1 Timothy

Moore College Principal Dr John Woodhouse has been preaching on 1 Timothy in the College chapel.

He expounds the letter with a view to helping preachers think about how they might do the same. Very helpful and refreshing.

The video files are on Vimeo, with thanks to Audio Advice. (h/t SydneyAnglicans.net)

Links to each talk below: Read more

Taking Christ’s church seriously – a tonic for the confused and disenchanted

“Talk about refreshing! I was recently encouraged to read the relatively recent book by Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck, Why We Love the Church: In Praise of Institutions and Organized Religion (Chicago: Moody Press, 2009). It helped that the person recommending the book was my principal, John Woodhouse. He said I’d like it. And he was right.

Book endorsements, in my experience, seem to be getting more and more out of touch with reality. They make grand claims which just aren’t met when you shell out the money and buy the book. But on this occasion the endorsements by J. I. Packer — ‘As I read, I wanted to stand up and cheer’, by Mark Dever — the authors are ‘theologically faithful, fresh, and insightful’, and Al Mohler — ‘a powerful word of correction, offering compelling arguments and a vision of church life that is not only convincing, but inspirational’ all hold up. I was genuinely excited by what I read. …”

– Mark Thompson hopes you will read the book and stand up and cheer with Jim Packer.

(Best prices here.)

2010 Reform National Conference

Continuing our links to resources you may find helpful, the 2010 Reform National Conference was held at the High Leigh Conference Centre in Hertfordshire last October. The theme was ‘The counter-cultural church’.

Talks and other downloads are available from Reform.

Pastoral moves — latest 9Marks eJournal

Looking for a new minister?

Ministers, are you thinking of moving? Or wondering about staying?

The latest eJournal from 9Marks addresses these questions and gives some wise counsel.

Pastors Going
Leave Your Church Well
Prepare the Church for the Next Guy
Book Review: Handle That New Call With Care

Pastors Coming
What’s Wrong With Search Committees?
What’s Right About Elders?
What Not to do when You’re the New Guy
You Might Have the Wrong Candidate If…

Tips for an Interim Pastor
Pastors Staying
Staying to the Glory of God: One Preacher’s Death Wish
Staying for the Glory of God: The Sibbes, Simeon and Stott Model

All this and more at 9Marks.

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