Here are links to a couple sermons I recently preached:
- “Pray For Those In Authority (1 Tim 2:1-8)” (6-22-08)
MP3 (48:13) | outline
- “Does God Have Two Wills? Does He Want All People To Be Saved In One Sense And Not Want All People To Be Saved In Another Sense? (1 Tim 2:4)” (6-29-08)
MP3 (45:26) | outline
The first is expositional, the second more theological (and heavily indebted to John Frame’s The Doctrine of God and John Piper’s “Are There Two Wills in God?”).
The latest 9Marks interview by Mark Dever is now available: “Fundamentalism and Separation with Mark Minnick: Pastor and Bob Jones University professor Mark Minnick presents the case for the Fundamentalist doctrine of separation.”
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My pastor, Dr. Mike Bullmore, is currently preaching through 1 Corinthians, and this morning he finished a sensitive, insightful, pastorally wise exposition of chapter 7.
- Marriage in God’s World (April 13, 2008)
- A Oneness That Glorifies God (1 Cor 7:1–7) (April 20, 2008)
- Glorifying God in Challenging Marital Situations (1 Cor 7:8–16, 39–40) (April 27, 2008)
- To Marry or Not to Marry: Singleness and the Glory of God (Part 1) (May 4, 2008)
- To Marry or Not to Marry (Part 2) (May 18, 2008)
Today’s sermon (#5 above) is particularly outstanding. Its target audience is older teenagers and their parents, but it is especially applicable to singles in their 20s, 30s, 40s, etc. Bullmore gives two reminders followed by five statements summarizing biblical priorities in preparing for marriage. Highly recommended!
Mike Bullmore’s preaching is like a combination of John Piper and C. J. Mahaney! More of his MP3s are available here, here, and here.
On April 24, 2008, Dr. Doug Sweeney and Collin Hansen discussed Hansen’s Young, Restless, Reformed: A Journalist’s Journey with the New Calvinists (Wheaton: Crossway, 2008). An MP3 of this discussion, sponsored by the Henry Center, is now available from the Henry Center’s media archive (MP3 | video).
I reviewed Hansen’s book in March for the forthcoming issue of Themelios (more on that later). Highly recommended!
All of the MP3s for the general sessions and panel discussions are now available for free downloads. Brief bios of the speakers are available here.
I’d recommend listening to these in order:
- Ligon Duncan: Sound Doctrine: Essential to Faithful Pastoral Ministry
- Panel Discussion 1: Dever, Duncan, Mahaney, Mohler
- Thabiti Anyabwile: Bearing the Image: Identity, the Work of Christ, and the Church
- Panel Discussion 2: Anyabwile, Dever, Duncan, Mahaney, Mohler
- John MacArthur: The Sinner Neither Able Nor Willing: The Doctrine of Absolute Inability
- Mark Dever: Improving the Gospel: Exercises in Unbiblical Theology
- Panel Discussion 3: Dever, Duncan, MacArthur, Mahaney, Mohler
- R.C. Sproul: The Curse Motif of the Atonement
- Panel Discussion 4: Dever, Duncan, Mahaney, Mohler, Sproul
- Albert Mohler: Why Do They Hate It So? The Doctrine of Substitution
- Panel Discussion 5: Dever, Duncan, Mahaney, Mohler
- John Piper: How the Supremacy of Christ Creates Radical Christian Sacrifice
- Panel Discussion 6: Dever, Duncan, Mahaney, Mohler, Piper
- C.J. Mahaney: Sustaining a Pastor’s Soul
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I thoroughly enjoyed attending T4G 2008 last week (thanks to T4G’s generosity!). It was edifying and God-glorifying.
Here are some highlights and pics:
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The following two (lengthy) MP3s by D. A. Carson are penetrating:
This afternoon I listened to the more recent one (”What is Evangelicalism?”), and I was encouraged by Carson’s 4.5-minute analysis of the current state of fundamentalism. It is not particularly constructive when evangelicals and fundamentalists broad-brush and launch grenades at each other. Contrast Carson’s conciliatory attitude here: listen from 42:10 to 46:30.
Update: A transcript of the 4.5-minute analysis is available here.
Last week I was honored to give the 2008 William R. Rice Lecture Series at Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary on “Keswick Theology: A Survey and Analysis of the Doctrine of Sanctification in the Early Keswick Movement.”
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The manuscript for this lecture series is scheduled for publication in the fall 2008 Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal. It distills my first dissertation (“Keswick Theology: A Historical and Theological Survey and Analysis of the Doctrine of Sanctification in the Early Keswick Movement, 1875–1920,” Ph.D. dissertation, Bob Jones University, 2006; xxiv + 387 pp.) from about 100,000 to 20,000 words.
Detroit Seminary is hosting the following resources from the lecture series:
- Handout (five-page PDF)
- Power Point presentation as a PDF (eighty slides with lots of pictures) [12.1 MB]
- MP3s:
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(photos by Dr. Robert V. McCabe)
D. A. Carson preached a short series on 2 Thessalonians at College Church in Wheaton for the last three Sundays:
- The Supremacy of Christ (2 Thess 1) [March 2, 2008]
- Waiting for the Last Time (2 Thess 2) [March 9, 2008]
- Waiting in the Mean Time (2 Thess 3) [March 16, 2008]
Mark Driscoll was on the TEDS campus on January 29-30 leading the 2008 Chicago Boot Camp for the Acts 29 network, and I attended and profited from the following (sometimes provocative!) sessions he led:
- Preaching the Mission: MP3 | Notes
- Gospel-Centered Families: This is particularly practical. It’s almost entirely Q & A geared for the wives of church planters.
Also available from the same conference is Mark Dever’s thoughtful session: Church Planting Evangelism.
This week my wife and I listened to a two-part interview that Grant Layman conducted with C. J. and Carolyn Mahaney and their daughters Nicole and Janelle in 2002 (at least that’s the copyright date). My wife had already listened to it and wanted me to hear it. What an edifying, humbling, enjoyable interview. Highly recommended!
- Part 1: “Grant Layman opens this message on parenting by inviting his audience into the Mahaney’s living room. This session of testimonies from C.J. and Carolyn Mahaney and two of their daughters offer insight into biblical parenting. Grant interviews the Mahaney family on topics including guarding family times together, training godly sons and daughters, faithful confrontation of sin, proper discipline, and building a collection of family memories.”
- Part 2: “Grant Layman continues an insightful and fun-filled interview with C.J. and Carolyn Mahaney. Daughters Nicole and Janelle share what each appreciated most about her upbringing and make a fascinating statement concerning what they wish their parents had done differently. Topics include the challenges faced by parents of teens, and insight on graciously dealing with those challenges according to Scripture. “
Last month I noted that Mark Dever was scheduled to speak on campus at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School on Wednesday, January 30, 2008, for the Scripture and Ministry Lecture sponsored by the Henry Center.
1. His lecture on church membership is now available (MP3 | video). Here’s a description:
- “Re-ordering Friendship, Love, and Enmity: A Biblical Reflection on Church Membership.” Membership should reflect a living commitment to a local church in attendance, giving, prayer and service; otherwise it is meaningless, worthless, and even dangerous. What does the lack of church membership say to the rest of the world about the church? To be a member is knowingly to be traveling together as aliens and strangers in this world as we head to our heavenly home. Dr. Dever will explore church membership from a biblical and historical approach, touching on the most difficult issues, which keep many Americans from committing to church membership.
2. Also available as is a follow-up interview with Mark Dever on church discipline conducted by Steve Farish on January 31, 2008 (MP3 | video).
This week Mount Calvary Baptist Church (where Jenni and I were members prior to moving to Chicago) updated its website, and I correspondingly updated this entry on my “MP3s” resource page:
*Mark Minnick (bio): some of the finest expositional preaching I have ever heard. Dr. Minnick, my former pastor, had a formative influence on my theology and philosophy of ministry. (Most downloads are not free, but some are.)
Some of the sermons that are (temporarily) available for free downloads include the following series by Dr. Minnick:
- 1 Corinthians 13
- Galatians 1–2
- a Christian view of illness
- restoring scripturally defined modesty
- responding to trials
- the deity of Christ
- Mount Calvary’s philosophy of ministry
- assurance of salvation
HT: Daniel Threlfall
On January 14, 2008, Jonathan T. Pennington, assistant professor of New Testament interpretation at SBTS, presented a five-part series entitled “Feasting on the Christ of John’s Gospel.”
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Last summer I published a blog post entitled “Planet Earth: A Theological Documentary.”
Yesterday morning during a painfully freezing (!) early morning run, I was listening to an MP3 from John Piper’s 2007 regional conference on “The Pleasures of God.” In part 2 (MP3 | video), Piper describes the pleasure of God in His creation, and he enthusiastically endorses the above “Planet Earth” DVDs.
In the MP3, start at 38:08 to get the context (“God loves the world that He made”) and listen until 42:43. Here are a few highlights:
- 39:30: “There are many aspects of nature that no human ever sees.” And then some BBC cameraman comes by and captures it!
- 40:54: This is where the “Blue Planet” and “Planet Earth” endorsement begins.
- “My wife and I and little girl have worshipped for eight hours watching these unbelievable works of God! There are all these pagans producing this worship DVD!”
- While they were watching the DVDs, Piper kept saying to his daughter, “That can’t be happening! That can’t be happening!”
- “I hate evolution. It is so worship destroying! I mean that. Secular, atheistic evolution is worship destroying.”
- “I get so much pleasure talking about what God has done in creation. It’s way better than talking about movies, but that’s another story.”
After I became aware of Zondervan’s TNIV audio Bible “The Bible Experience” last June, I promptly pre-ordered the entire OT and NT on MP3 for $70 (now selling for $54.87). (The complete CD set currently sells for $78.74.) I received my copy in October, and since then I have immensely enjoyed listening to nearly half the Bible on my iPod.
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Last weekend D. A. Carson spoke “at the Castle” in Northern Ireland on (1) the gospel and (2) Jeremiah.
Here are the most recent additions to my post entitled “D. A. Carson MP3s“:
Jeremiah
This morning I listened to Jason Janz (Sharper Iron profile) interview Mark J. Farnham, assistant professor of theology and NT as well as chaplain at Calvary Baptist Theological Seminary:
- “Four Historical Stages of Fundamentalism” (32:17 min.)
- “Current Issues Within Fundamentalism” (22:10 min.)
- “Trends in Evangelicalism” (30:07 min.)
The interview is not filled with energy and humor like the recent Mahaney-Dever interview; Farnham, in comparison, is calm and perhaps a bit monotone. I’d take issue with some of his comments here and there, but I realize that it is very challenging to nuance complex historical and theological issues in an interview like this. If you have been exposed only to the worst forms of fundamentalism or to caricatures of such, you may be surprised to listen to a fundamentalist who doesn’t sound like a belligerent anti-intellectual. Check it out.
