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Gospel Coalition LiveBlog #3: Paige Benton Brown – Fearing God in a Fallen World (Nehemiah 5-6)
Welcome to the “Replay” mode of Paige Benton Brown’s TGCW14 LiveBlog. In it, you can read not only her teaching content, but also her introductory interview comments (ball pit!), the Gettys’ corporate worship lyrics, and easily access links to all of the resources she mentioned throughout the session. I hope that it is a blessing to you and to your loved ones at home who could not be with us here in Orlando! The LiveBlogs are particularly helpful if you need to fill in a citation that she mentioned quickly or you were wishing you could have captured a certain teaching illustration for your notes, say, for example, “The Lighthouse vs.…
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Gospel Coalition LiveBlog #2: Tim Keller – Laboring for a God Who Fights For Us (Nehemiah 3-4)
Welcome to the Tim Keller Plenary Session LiveBlog! If you have any questions about LiveBlogging, please feel free to visit this page of my website and/or to contact me directly and I will try my very best to assist you. If you would like to read the other Gospel Coalition Women’s Conference LiveBlogs (on air today or in replay mode at any time), this page of my website will bring you to both the 2014 and 2012 Conference LiveBlogs. I hope the LiveBlogs are a blessing to you! Many thanks to Collin Hansen and Josh Matthew for allowing me the great privilege of serving in this way. Your sister in Christ, Tara Barthel
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Gospel Coalition LiveBlog #1: Kathy Keller – Taking Action in Light of God’s Word (Nehemiah 1-2)
Welcome to the Kathy Keller Plenary Session LiveBlog! If you have any questions about LiveBlogging, please feel free to visit this page of my website and/or to contact me directly and I will try my very best to assist you. If you would like to read the other Gospel Coalition Women’s Conference LiveBlogs (on air today or in replay mode at any time), this page of my website will bring you to both the 2014 and 2012 Conference LiveBlogs. I hope the LiveBlogs are a blessing to you! Many thanks to Collin Hansen and Josh Matthew for allowing me the great privilege of serving in this way. Your sister in Christ, Tara Barthel
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Pre-Conference LiveBlogs for The 2014 Gospel Coalition Women’s Conference
I decided to go ahead and try out some new features in my LiveBlogging software (Coveritlive) by creating a super quick pre-conference LiveBlog for today’s Gospel Coalition Women’s Conference. We’ll see if I can work the kinks out before my real LiveBlogging starts at 4:00PM (Eastern) when we will launch the first general session: Kathy Keller: “Taking Action in Light of God’s Word” (Nehemiah 1-2). Please feel free to stop by and say hi on the LiveBlog! (Your “hello” can stay just private to me if you prefer. Just let me know. 🙂 ! ) Blessings and joy, Tara B. PS If you have no idea what a LiveBlog even is, you…
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Gospel Coalition Live Blogs ON AIR June 27-29!
I’m SO enjoying seeing all of you on the automatic email reminder lists that are starting to be generated for my upcoming Gospel Coalition Women’s Conference LiveBlogs. Paige Benton Brown’s teaching on Nehemiah 5-6 (“Fearing God in a Fallen World”) is leading the pack with the greatest number of e-reminders, but all of the general sessions are enjoying a wonderful number of pre-conference hits. I can’t wait to serve you on the LiveBlogs! If you’re at the conference, please be sure to stop by and say hello in person. And if you’re lurking away online, don’t forget that you can say a PRIVATE hello to just me if you’d like. My…
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ESV Women’s Devotional Bible
I recently had the joy of reading a pre-release copy of The ESV Women’s Devotional Bible for potential endorsement and I thought you might enjoy hearing what I shared with its publishers at Crossway … Having spent the last few weeks steeped in hours of lectures and hundreds of pages of seminary material on the doctrines of grace, I was particularly honored to be asked to serve in this way. Oh, how grateful I am for Sola Scriptura! (And Sola Gratia, Sola fide, Solus Christus too of course. All for God’s glory alone.) I will be doing another Barthel family WIN FREE (BIBLICAL & PRACTICAL) STUFF (No Risk of SPAM!) GIVEAWAY when…
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Let your tiredness be an occasion to increase your joy in the Lord!
When preparing for our summer women’s study on disordered affections this week, I came across this classic essay by our family’s dear friend, Ajith Fernando. If you are feeling weary tonight (as I am!), I hope it is a blessing and help to you as it has been to me. G’nite, Tara B. **** COMBATING WEARINESS WITH ALTERNATE FORMS OF EXERCISE (Written after a short visit to Ukraine when I preached 13 times in four days) by Ajith Fernando A few decades ago the cricket-loving world was shocked when a popular and brilliant English cricketer said that the pressure of having to perform according to people’s expectations and the resulting stress often…
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It is naive to deny that professing Christians are quite capable of gossip, innuendo, spin and outright lies when engaged in conflict …
Many thanks to our friend, Dr. Tim Lane (formerly of Westminster/CCEF, currently serving as President of the Institute for Pastoral Care) for his insights and endorsements of Redeeming Church Conflicts: Redeeming Group Conflicts I particularly appreciated this note: “It goes without saying that Christians are quite capable of gossip, innuendo, spin and outright lies when engaged in conflict. To deny that professing Christians are capable of this is naive. When you combine group conflict with perceived hurt, character scrutiny or doctrinal rectitude, the terrain can be challenging to navigate …” Amen, brother. And thanks again! Tara B. PS If you’re not yet familiar with Tim Lane, I hope you will click through to his website…
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Why do adults throw tantrums over seemingly trivial provocations?
There is an excellent article by my friend, spiritual father, and co-author, Dave Edling, over on our Redeeming Church Conflicts blog: What Rules Govern Your Interactions with Others? (Especially in Your Church Conflict) In it, he cites some (perfectly fine) ideas from a Wall Street Journal article about business communication. But then he goes further—just as the gospel calls us to do. Let me tempt you with just a brief excerpt … “If your goal is to simply not feel so bad about yourself following your behavior the researchers have some good coping tips for you: Picture a scenario that is likely to trigger your anger, and imagine a calm…
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Specific Resources for Teaching Children Logic
In response to a question on Facebook (Hi, EH! 🙂 !), I was trying to think through exactly what resources I have used for teaching logic to children. For my 5th and 6th graders this year, I was basically winging it (creating handouts and outlines based on where our discussions took us each week and based on old logic textbooks that a college professor gave me in the late 1980’s—does that make me sound ancient or what?!). But we were also helped by: This (wonderful! free!) “Thou Shalt Not Commit Logical Fallacies” poster. (The creator of which contacted me this spring because he is doing a TED Talk on teaching…
