Now available as a 17-page PDF:
D. A. Carson. “The Scholar as Pastor.” A lightly edited manuscript that is the second part of a two-part address by John Piper and D. A. Carson entitled The Pastor as Scholar and the Scholar as Pastor. April 23, 2009 at Park Community Church in Chicago.
My friend A. J. Gibson is a missionary in Monterrey, Mexico. Why?
A. J. explains in a comment he posted re Chris Anderson’s perceptive “Advice for My Angst-Ridden, Non-Calvinistic Friends” (which weighs in on the issue I raised in “An Example of a Fundamentalism Not Worth Saving“):
Excellent comments, Chris. I’m a missionary for several reasons.
- Because I believe with all my heart that God has a chosen people in Latin America and that he’s given me the privilege to help call them out from the nations for his name.
- Because my theology tells me that God’s glory is the chief end of all his eternal decrees and that the greatest thing I can do in this life is live to that end.
- Because many years ago I tearfully and brokenly read Piper’s Let the Nations Be Glad and my man- (and self-) centered worldview was devastated by the beauty and greatness of the God I found there. Never in all my years growing up in fundamentalism had I heard or read such words. I decided that I had to tell others about Him.
Soli Deo Gloria
(BTW, in the interests of historical accuracy, those Latin words were the battle cry of a group of flamboyant Calvinist leaders whose ministries continue to bear fruit 500 years later.)
My buddy Ian McConnell, pastor for preaching and vision for Grace Bible Church in Philadelphia and executive director of Urban Imperative, is joining the Sovereign Grace family of churches. C. J. Mahaney has the story here along with a 14-minute testimony by Ian.
I just listened to seven short sermons by Tim Keller on Luke 15, which convey the message of his book The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith 
(audio). Thoughtful. Stimulating. Convicting.
The first sermon is from Sept. 2005, and the latter six are from fall 2008:
Update: Cf. my brief review.
Danny Sweatt‘s sermon entitled “Young and Restless” (preached on April 7, 2009 at a regional FBF meeting in North Carolina)
A good friend asked me to listen to it last week, so I did (with my wife) early on Sunday morning. Not a good start to Mother’s Day.
Cf. Bob Bixby’s thoughts.
(The title of this post is a play on Kevin Bauder’s thoughtful paper.)
Update:
A good word from Kevin DeYoung:
Here are the two most important things you need to know about the rise of the New Calvinism: it’s not new and it’s not about Calvin. . . . “Please God, don’t let the young, restless, and reformed movement be another historically ignorant, self-absorbed, cooler-than-thou fad.”
Cf. my review of Collin Hansen’s Young, Restless, Reformed: A Journalist’s Journey with the New Calvinists.
First Mary Ann Glendon. Now some students:
John Frame offers extremely high praise for John Barber’s The Road from Eden: Studies in Christianity and Culture (Palo Alto, CA: Academic Press, 2009). (Also available from Amazon.com.)