Click here and listedn to the first five minutes of a talk John Piper gave at an American Counselor’s Conference last month. John Piper opens by publicly confessing sins and failures that he has wrestled with over the years and the only response that he receives from the audience is continued laughter. How odd. Perhaps this is only another example of the spiritual state of Christianity in America…

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Andy Naselli, Ben Peays, and Ryan James have performed a tremendous service to the church: they have uploaded to The Gospel Coalition website 443 MP3s of D. A. Carson’s teaching. Many of these were previously available only for a price; others have never been available online. Some are even in French! They are all tagged for easy searching and organization: by title, Scripture text, series, topic, date.

I couldn’t agree more with what Andy writes:

I’d highly recommend that you redeem the time and systematically and thoughtfully listen to these MP3s. I have profited immensely from them. Carson’s manner of speaking is just as articulate, thoughtful, and engaging as his publications. He exalts Christ by exegeting his words, tracing themes through the Bible’s salvation-historical storyline, addressing hot topics with clarity and nuance, and engaging and confronting bad theology as well as the culture.You can access them at Carson’s TGC webpage. You can also browse most of them at his sermons page.

http://faithbyhearing.wordpress.com/

You’re Welcome!

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• Credo: I Believe
• God the Father Almighty
• Maker of Heaven and Earth
• Jesus Christ, His Only Son, Our Lord
• Conceived of the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary
• Suffered Under Pontius Pilate
• Was Crucified, Died, and Was Buried
• The Third Day He Arose Again from the Dead
• He Ascended into Heaven and Sitteth on the Right Hand of God the Father Almighty
• Whence He Shall Come to Judge the Living and the Dead
• The Holy Spirit
• The Holy Catholic Church and the Communion of the Saints
• The Forgiveness of Sins
• The Resurrection of the Body and Life Everlasting

HT: JT

“But this at least all married people should know.  They can do no better work and do nothing more valuable either for God, for Christendom, for all the world, for themselves, and for their children than to bring up their children well.”

“For bringing up their children properly is their shortest road to heaven.  In fact, heaven itself could not be made nearer or achieved more easily than by doing this work.”

“By the same token, hell is no more easily earned than with respect to one’s own children.  You could do no more disastrous work than to spoil the children, let them curse and swear, let them learn profane words and vulgar songs, and just let them do as they please.”

“There is no greater tragedy in Christendom than spoiling children.”

“Therefore, it is of the greatest importance for every married man to pay closer, more thorough, and continuous attention to the health of his child’s soul than to the body which he has begotten, and to regard his child as nothing else but an eternal treasure God has commanded
him to protect, and so prevent the world, the flesh, and the devil from stealing the child away and bringing him to destruction.”

Martin Luther – A Sermon on the Estate of Marriage (1519)