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John Newton on Responding to Criticism
John Newton, author of the song Amazing Grace, advises a minister with regard to delivering and responding to criticism....
Louie Giglio, John Piper, and Passion 2010 in Atlanta
Passion 2010 is just weeks away at the World Congress Center in Atlanta. Listen in to a telephone discussion between Passion founder Louie Giglio and Passion speaker John Piper as they discuss Twitter, Passion, theology, God, sin, suffering, sex, pa...
A Call to a Life of Intentional Worship
God’s will for my life is... well, just what, exactly? Don’t we all want to know what God’s intent and will for our life is, and what our purpose is for being left on this earth? Is there a specific path God wants each of us to follow? The Bi...
Please Be Unfashionable
From Tullian Tchividjian: I wrote the book Unfashionable to make the point that Christians make a difference in this world by being different from this world; they don’t make a difference by being the same. My deep concern (which prompted me to wri...
Halloween Questions From Don\'t Waste Your Life
Are you a flesh loving zombie, mindlessly wandering a bleak world craving fleshly things? Eph 2:1-3, 4:18-19/Titus 3:3 Are you the lustful simpleton following the hot girl into the house overlooking the fact that it is haunted? Prov 7:24-27...
Don't Let The Beanbag Get You
Josh Harris provides a memorable illustration on the deception of sin amidst the absence of Godliness....
Why Moralism Is Not the Gospel — And Why So Many Christians Think It Is
From Al Mohler, President of Southern Baptist Seminary, on the tendency of evangelicals to reduce the gospel to moralism: We sin against Christ and we misrepresent the Gospel when we suggest to sinners that what God demands of them is moral improveme...
Heaven, Hell, and Pleasure
John Piper reflects on C.S. Lewis's view that the the devil has never invented a pleasure, but merely distorts God's pleasures: This is an astonishing view of pleasure. Hell has never been able to produce one! It can only misuse the ones that God cre...
Discovering God’s Deep, Dark, Mysterious Will
From The Blazing Center: God’s will isn’t a deep, dark mystery we have to solve. He isn’t playing hide and seek or throwing out red herrings to throw us off the track. “Aha!” we can almost hear him saying, “You thought I was calling you t...
Afraid of Losing
24 “Then the servant with the one bag of silver came and said, ‘Master, I knew you were a harsh man, harvesting crops you didn’t plant and gathering crops you didn’t cultivate. 25 I was afraid I would lose your money, so I hid it in the earth...
Free MP3 Messages from NEXT
An incredible amount of Christ-centered messages available online from Next. Next 2009 Conference MP3The Preeminence of Christ Joshua Harris MP3Christ's Incarnation D.A. Carson MP3Christ's Life Kevin DeYoung MP3Christ's Death C.J. Mahaney MP3Christ's...
Three Directions of Lifestyle Worship
From Dwayne Moore: At some point in your life, you may have been as I was (and so many in our pews still are!). Anytime you heard the word worship, you assumed that word mostly referred to singing, clapping, and talking to God. However, worship is no...
Is Following Jesus Overrated?
1 Large crowds followed Jesus as he came down the mountainside. 2 Suddenly, a man with leprosy approached him and knelt before him. “Lord,” the man said, “if you are willing, you can heal me and make me clean.” - Mt 8 The crowds followed Jesu...
Live Backwards
From Jonathan Dodson: Are you driven by work, family, success? Are you more concerned with managing conflict than being sanctified by conflict? How can you begin to care less about results of vocation and more about discipleship through vocation? If ...
Tullian Tchividjian: Making a Difference By Being Different
Tullian Tchividjian, Billy Graham's prodigal grandson turned megachurch pastor, is the guest on this episode of Steve Brown Etc. Join us as we talk about making it big and making a difference in the world by being different. In 2003, Tullian Tchividj...
The Best Things in Life Happen on the Way to Something Else
20 Early in the morning David left the flock with a shepherd, loaded up and set out, as Jesse had directed. He reached the camp as the army was going out to its battle positions, shouting the war cry. 21 Israel and the Philistines were drawing up the...
Just Do Something: Finding God's Will For Your Life
Kevin DeYoung offers wise counsel to those wondering how to figure out what God wants to do with ther lives. What to major in? Who to date? Who to marry? Where to minister? Where to work? Kevin helps us understand it's not as mystical as many try to ...
What's That Sucking Sound? Dealing With Approval Addiction
At the root of idolatry is misplaced worship. And when we find rest only when we have the validation and approval of other people, we are not worshiping God, but idols. Matt Ballard explains in this MP3 entitled What's That Sucking Sound? Dealing Wit...
Anger is Good
When Saul heard their words, the Spirit of God came upon him in power, and he burned with anger. - I sam 11 The spirit brought anger. God made Paul angry. Doesn't it seem like we are taught to avoid anger? A Christian always has a mild temperament. H...
A Decision To Make
You and I have a decision to make. Do we want to move out into the depths of all that God has for us? Do we want to venture out into the depths of fresh worship where the Holy Spirit is leading? Are we tired enough of the "same old, same old" to the ...
Living Lives That Show Worship
Worship names what matters most: the way human beings are created to reflect God's glory by embodying God's character in lives that seek righteousness and do justice. Such comprehensive worship redefines all we call ordianry. Worship turns out to be ...
Should Pastors (and Christians) Use Coarse Language?
The Differences Between Religion And The Gospel
On Earth as it is in Heaven » The Differences Between Religion And The Gospel. From Tullian Tchividjian : A very insightful comparison between “religion” and “the gospel” drawn from the sermons of Tim Keller (Senior Pastor of Redeemer Presby...
Go Get It
1 Now that the land was under Israelite control, the entire community of Israel gathered at Shiloh and set up the Tabernacle.[a] 2 But there remained seven tribes who had not yet been allotted their grants of land. 3 Then Joshua asked them, “How lo...
Growing In Grace
You cannot grow in grace to any high degree while you are conformed to the world. The life of separation may be a path of sorrow, but it is the highway of safety; and though the separated life may be painful and make every day a battle, yet it is a h...
How to Make a Decision
23So they put forward two men, Joseph called Barsabbas (who was also called Justus), and Matthias. 24And they prayed and said, "You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two You have chosen 25to occupy this ministry and apost...
What Matters
59 As they stoned him, Stephen prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” 60 He fell to his knees, shouting, “Lord, don’t charge them with this sin!” And with that, he died. - Acts 7 Stephen hung with the disciples but was never recognized un...
Reflections on Lent + Free Lent Song
Lent is so much more than just giving up chocolate! At his baptism, Jesus is filled with the Spirit, and the Father speaks over him "this is my Son, with whom I am well pleased". We might expect that he would launch from this high point straight into...
Lumberjack
6Then he told this parable: "A man had a fig tree, planted in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it, but did not find any. 7So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, 'For three years now I've been coming to look for fruit on th...
Climb
Jesus entered Jericho and made his way through the town. 2 There was a man there named Zacchaeus. He was the chief tax collector in the region, and he had become very rich. 3 He tried to get a look at Jesus, but he was too short to see over the crowd...
