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Tim Keller: On the Mountain – The Terrifying and Beckoning God (The Gospel Coalition National Women’s Conference LiveBlog)
To read the near-transcription from Pastor Keller’s plenary session, just click “Replay” below: Here is a picture of Pastor Keller teaching this session: The actual LiveBlog replay above has over 5,700 words in it, so I won’t even attempt to restate the entirety of this teaching. However, here are just a few points that will hopefully whet your appetite and encourage you to read the entire entry: In general, Gospel Coalition did not bring women to talk and think about women, but to talk and think about God. For many of you, if you admit it, you’re further away from what you wanted God to give you. God seems to be…
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John Piper: The Search for Joy and the Supremacy of God in the Gospel (The Gospel Coalition National Women’s Conference LiveBlog)
To read the near-transcription from Pastor Piper’s pre-conference session, just click “Replay” below: Here is a picture of Pastor Piper teaching this session: The actual LiveBlog replay above has over 5,300 words in it, so I won’t even attempt to restate the entirety of this teaching. However, here are just a few points that will hopefully whet your appetite and encourage you to read the entire entry: The gospel of Jesus is the great work of God through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ in which He removes every obstacle to your full and everlasting and all satisfying enjoyment of his glory and in which he displays the…
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Don Carson: Preserving the Gospel (The Gospel Coalition National Women’s Conference LiveBlog)
To read the near-transcription of Dr. Carson’s Pre-Conference Seminar, just click “Replay” below. The actual LiveBlog replay above has over 3,500 words in it, so I won’t even attempt to restate the entirety of this teaching. However, here are just a few points that will hopefully whet your appetite and encourage you to read the entire entry: The gospel is not merely a corpus of beliefs; it is the news of what God has done; but it is so transformative that people are different; reconciled to God; born anew; born from above; character changes; direction changes. If I’ve learned anything after 40 years of preaching and teaching, it’s that most…
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Tim and Kathy Keller: Marriage in Gospel Focus (The Gospel Coalition National Women’s Conference LiveBlog)
Welcome to The Gospel Coalition National Women’s Conference! Tim and Kathy Keller will take the stage in just over two hours for the first pre-conference session and that’s when this LiveBlog will go on the air. Registration is already hopping and I’m enjoying the sound and video check as I complete my final prep for the LiveBlogs. In just a few minutes, this will no longer be my view: Hope to see you on the LiveBlog! (To learn more about LiveBlogs in general, please visit this page of my website and feel free to contact me on FaceBook or email me directly with any questions. I’ll do my best to serve…
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Pain Does Its Work … And Grace Takes Over
This is such an amazing essay! I have filed it in my read & re-read & re-read area and I look at it often, including this past week. I hope that it truly encourages you all! Yours — t PAIN DOES ITS WORK, AND GRACE TAKES OVER Written by Ajith Fernando while travelling abroad I left home on a trip abroad feeling very discouraged and hurt because of some problems. This is normal in the Christian life, and these are emotions I must not deny. Sorrow and pain must be permitted to do their work. They – deepen our commitment and mould our character, especially teaching us patience; – lead…
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Ahhhhhh … summer!
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Live on WDCX — Lifeline with Kurt Goff
In just a few minutes, I’m going live on WDCX’s program “Lifeline with Kurt Goff.” You can listen in by clicking here. (And if you have even a moment, I’d SO appreciate your prayers because I have to solo the hour-long program due to a scheduling conflict with Cap’n Dave. Yeek! I pray most of all that I lift high the Lord Jesus! And also that I will encourage His people, remain faithful to His Word, and hopefully represent Redeeming Church Conflicts well. Thanks, friends!)
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FREE (older version) Study Guides for the Peacemaking Church Women’s Study: Living the Gospel in Relationships
The leaders at Peacemaker Ministries are SO generous! When I was quite surprised to have study guides for my ORIGINAL video series (4+ years ago!) returned to me, the Peacemaker leaders granted me an exception to my contract with them and now I get to give them away! Hooray! I love giving stuff away. So here’s the deal … the study guides look a little different from the current ones, and they don’t have the really nice letter from Ken Sande at the beginning, but truly, ALL of the substantive content is the same. If you have a ministry idea for ten Peacemaking Church: Living the Gospel in Relationships study…
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Please Consider Planning (even just a brief!) Actual Memorial Day Tomorrow
We’re looking very forward to trying Pastor Dave and Chris Bentz’s famed BBQ recipe tomorrow. Yum! But far, far above our lunchtime munchies, our entire family is looking forward to going to our local Memorial Day ceremony. We have already purchased our red, white, and blue flowers and miniature flags to place on our local gravestones. (Did you know Memorial Day was originally called Decoration Day?) We have been talking for weeks now about standing in the presence of the flag and never allowing a flag to drape on the ground. We will hear stories of courage and be inspired to live for ideals well beyond our personal comfort. We…
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Ten Practical Ways to Love and Serve Your Wife
Really appreciated Challies’ links to this today: Brian Croft: Ten Practical Ways to Love and Serve Your Wife It encouraged me to appreciate all that Fred does to love and serve me, and also challenged me to think: What are the ten most practical ways that I can love and serve my husband?
