D. A. Carson preached a short series on 2 Thessalonians at College Church in Wheaton for the last three Sundays:
Last Thursday evening one of my wife‘s pre-K4 students was tragically killed. On Monday morning Jenni had to inform her students that their little friend would not be coming back to school. Here’s a lightly edited excerpt from a moving letter she sent to parents Monday afternoon.
I just wanted to give you a quick update on this morning and how gracious God was to us and to the children as we discussed KC’s loss.
“If by chance you bear a child, if it is a boy, let it be, if it is a girl, expose it.”
Those chilling words are a husband’s instructions to his wife in a letter dated 1 B.C. (documented below).
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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:
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!
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:
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 is a guest post by my wife, Jenni. She has benefited immensely from Carolyn Mahaney and her daughters on biblical womanhood, and at my request she graciously agreed to summarize her experience for the benefit of others. –ADN]
Last year a close friend began telling me about Girl Talk: Mother-Daughter Conversations on Biblical Womanhood by Carolyn Mahaney (wife of C. J. Mahaney) and Nicole (Mahaney) Whitacre.
My friend had recently given birth to her first child, a baby girl, and was thoroughly enjoying the book’s emphasis on teaching daughters about biblical womanhood. I soon began devouring it! Then I discovered the Girl Talk Blog, MP3’s by Carolyn Mahaney, and two other books written by Carolyn Mahaney:
I began spending hours each day listening to Carolyn on my MP3 player while working in the home. I even bought the three books above and gave them as Christmas presents to my Mom, sister, mother-in-law, and three sisters-in-law!
Throughout these past few months, Carolyn has mentored me in the disciplines of biblical womanhood.
I am so grateful for Carolyn’s mentoring over the last several months. I am thankful that rather than giving fluffy women’s talks, she applies the gospel to all of life—especially to our roles as wives and mothers for the glory of God.
Related:
This semester a couple recent M.Div. graduates from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary entered Trinity’s Ph.D. historical theology program: Owen Strachan (blog) and Mark Rogers (blog). Jenni and I have enjoyed getting to know them and their families, and I’ve already learned a bit more about Southern Seminary. This week I learned that a history of Southern Seminary is available online at Southern’s “Archives and Special Collections.”
“The History of the SBTS“ efficiently organizes over 100 pages worth of fresh, concise, readable, popular, official, fascinating history.
Owen Strachan, who wrote nearly all of the site’s content, worked on this project nonstop for a year and a half, reading books, articles, and dissertations on Southern’s history (cf. the project staff).
“The History of the SBTS” is divided into seven parts:
