Edwin Judge: The importance of history
The Centre for Public Christianity has made available a number of video clips from a interview with Professor Edwin Judge conducted by John Dickson.
Professor Judge of Macquarie University is a widely known and respected authority on the Roman Empire.
The segment “The importance of history” and related clips are linked on this page.
Preach Christ in all the Scriptures?
Last weekend’s broadcast from the White Horse Inn tackles whether our preaching is actually focussed on Christ – or on felt needs. Graeme Goldsworthy is acknowledged as a great help in thinking through these issues.
“We Preach Not Ourselves” (November 23, 2008) is available – in several formats – at oneplace.com.
National Geographic blows it again
When I was growing up in the 1960s, my mother had a subscription to the National Geographic and I regularly perused its issues. It had a reputation as recently as the 1980s for a high degree of accuracy and the avoidance of sensationalism. Some time between then and this decade something went awry. …
– New Testament scholar Craig Blomberg. (Photo: Denver Seminary.)
Paralysed Speakers and Hearers – John Stott
Even those who no longer see any particular merit in preaching would probably agree that it is not what it was. Many of those who value it would say that it is in a state of steep decline, and to recall a few notable names from the past would appear to confirm this. Of course, styles have changed, the world has changed. But are we not missing out? Are we not in danger of losing a basic ingredient of a living church? …
– John Stott, as published in CrossWay, 1981. Read his brief article, as a PDF file, courtesy of Church Society. (Photo: Langham Partnership.)
What if Starbucks marketed like a church? A parable.
Of course, your church won’t be like this – but this video provides plenty of food for thought. Richard Reising, with a background in marketing, produced it to show how not to welcome visitors.
See the video on YouTube – and read Richard’s comments at his new Beyond Relevance blog.
Verbal Aspect & all that jazz in Biblical Greek
Con Campbell’s new book, Basics of Verbal Aspect in Biblical Greek, is now available.
He recently wrote several blog posts on it at Zondervan’s Koinonia blog: part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 part 5
Here’s a list of scholars endorsing the book.
(Thanks to Justin Taylor.)
Robert Gagnon on Homosexuality and the Bible
In this 28 minute video from Pure Passion, Robert Gagnon answers some common objections about homosexuality and the Bible. Very helpful.
Watch it on Vimeo via Between Two Worlds.
Reason 4 Hope
Video and audio resources courtesy of Audio Advice – at Reason 4 Hope.
(Note: the video files are of the order of 200MB+.)
Gospel Coalition media archive
“The Gospel Coalition has recently revamped its website, and it now holds 8,480 audio files and 842 video files. This archive has very nice topic and speaker indexes, and categories of sermons, Q&A, conference messages and interviews. This is a motherload of materials.”
– Thanks to Faith by Hearing for the tip.
John Calvin – free audiobook
This month’s free audiobook from ChristianAudio is a reading of John Calvin’s “Of Prayer and The Christian Life”.
Use the code NOV2008 at the checkout.
The mp3 files are around 160MB – available free until the end of November.
The most important issues in this election
Where is your trust in this world? Where is your allegiance? John Piper speaks very helpfully on what’s really important as the US elections loom.
It’s a 4 minute video at Desiring God.
Designing for Christmas
Christmas is not far off – how will your church advertise what’s on?
There’s the Create Conference on November 15.
And as well, Phil Campbell at Mitchelton Presbyterian Church in Brisbane, shares his church’s Carols flier – and other good ideas – at Design4Church.
The key doctrine of Justification
Mike Reeves chats with John Piper about the subject of justification – for the UCCF’s Theology Network.
There’s a very helpful stress on the imputation of Christ’s righteousness.
It’s a 17MB mp3 download – from this page.
The Manifesto of the Reformation
The Manifesto of the Reformation
Luther vs. Erasmus on Free Will
The clash between Martin Luther and Desiderius Erasmus over the issue of free will is “one of the most famous exchanges in western intellectual history”…
Read the article by Lee Gatiss (editor of The Theologian) via the PDF file here (direct link).
Reformation Day
It’s Reformation Day, and over at the Sola Panel, Sandy Grant has posted links to some useful resources.
See also our post from earlier this week.
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…