Several days ago, to our surprise, we found out that Wheaton College had invited leftist, Pro-Homosexual Evangelical Jim Wallis to speak and promote his new book.
In the interest of our readers, we have collected several links that are very informative regarding Wallis and his recent visit to Wheaton. We take the same position as many [...]

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The Complete Zoo Adventure: A Field Trip in a Book, spiral bound
By Mary & Gary Parker / Master Books
Get the absolute most out of your zoo adventure-before, during and even after your trip ends! Explore God’s amazing creation with this colorful and photograph-filled evolution-free, pro-Creationist guide to zoo creatures. Seven [...]

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Christians Seeking God’s Will (Original Source)
By Mark Dever
This will be brief. The way many Christians practice seeking God’s will before they make a decision amounts to spiritual and emotional bondage. Christ has died to give us liberty and freedom (Rom. 6; Gal. 5; I Peter 2). We can only know the truth [...]

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Amazon Deal of the Day
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Here are some limited-time specials on theological books that we would encourage you to not pass up:
Spirit Empowered Preaching: Involving the Holy Spirit in Your Ministry by Art Azurdia 50% off - probably the best price you will ever find on this truly helpful book. We want to get as many of [...]

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In Our Sovereign God (p. 34) Roger R. Nicole discusses the Perseverance of the Saints.
Dr. Nicole writes:
The last point [in TULIP] is called “the perseverance of the saints,” and the emphasis is that those who have been won by the grace of God will not lose out but will be preserved by God’s grace to [...]

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Pastor William Farley, in his book, Outrageous Mercy: Rediscover the Radical Nature of Christianity, says the message of the cross matters.
The message of the cross matters to us for at least four reasons.
First, the cross is our message. It is the heart, soul, and center of Christian faith and practice. There is no good news [...]

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Just Released ! The Children of Caeser
Dr. Voddie Baucham knows what most parents are too quick to dismiss: whoever is teaching our children is also discipling them. Voddie persuasively argues that Christian parents need to take the initiative in their children’s education and stop turning them over to the anti-God environment of the government school. [...]

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Lectures to My Students (Hardcover)
Publisher: Banner of Truth
Author: Spurgeon, Charles H.
ISBN-13: 9780851519685
Binding: Hardcover
List Price: $39.00
Westminster Bookstore: $27.30 - 30% Off
The substance of Spurgeon’s regular Friday afternoon addresses to the students of the Pastor’s College (founded by Spurgeon in 1857 to train others for the ministry), this new complete and unabridged Banner edition, newly typeset and [...]

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We are asking the question: Would Jesus Celebrate the “Life-Long” Union of Homosexual Couples?
I think the answer is obvious but this question begs another!
Would someone who trusts in Jesus words, the red letters, celebrate such a union?
Well the second question is kind of a trick question. If you are a real red letter Christian, I [...]

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From Lighthouse Trails (Original Source)
Rick Warren has invited New Age proponent Leonard Sweet to speak at the 2008 Saddleback Small Groups Conference called Wired. 1 The theme of the conference is “Prepare your church for spiritual growth and connectivity.” Unfortunately, spiritual growth and connectivity ala Leonard Sweet could be a panentheistic, mystical dose of [...]

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The Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (Online Source)
… is an ecumenical project, promoting a vital link of communication between the varied Christian traditions of [...]

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Source: Lighthouse Trails

The Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) is a major resource association for Christian schools around the world. According to its website, ACSI serves over 5,300 member schools in approximately 100 countries with an enrollment of nearly 1.2 million [...]

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“I can simply testify that in my experience the help that I derived in my early years in the ministry from reading the sermons of Jonathan Edwards was immeasurable. And, of course not only his sermons, but also his account of that Great Awakening, that great religious Revival that took place in America in the [...]

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This billboard is a telling display of the lack of humility and the hight of arrogance on the part of Dr. Creflo Dollar. It is reported that this one night event featuring Dollar cost half a million dollars. The burden to raise the needed money was placed on the African Pastors in Uganda.

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Stetzer is posting the audio of the Building Bridges Conference available through the LifeWay podcast. Here’s the audio available thus far (this will be updated as more are available). Also, Dr. Nettles’ presentation is also now available (click here).

Calvinism and SBC Leadership (Stetzer) - PDF
The Historical Record (Nettles) - PDF
The Historical Record (Dockery) - PDF
[...]

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From John at Reformation Theology: (Original Source)
The New Birth (.pdf) Essays by William Plumer, Octavius Winslow, Arthur W. Pink, John Gill, James Buchanan, J. C. Ryle, John Owen, Charles H. Spurgeon — These are very helpful essays from the Free Grace Broadcaster’s Winter 2007 edition. Very edifying and crucial to understand if one is to [...]

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With over 1 Million copies sold, John Eldredge’s Wild at Heart is no doubt a force in the phyci of many men today. First released in 2003, Wild at Heart has regrettably made a considerable impact on the Men’s Ministry of many churches. This is yet another indication of how anemic many of our [...]

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In a recent issue of the Baptist Press website (http://www.bpnews.net/) there is an article titled “The Bible and Tongues” by former LifeWay Christian Resources President Jimmy Draper. Given the fact that next week I’m speaking at a conference in Arlington, Texas, on the subject of the Holy Spirit in Baptist life, I perked up when [...]

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A Biblical Understanding of Membership (PDF)
An excerpt from Mark Dever’s book What is a Healthy Church? Courtesy of Crossway Books.

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Josh Moody, in his book, The God-Centered Life: Insights from Jonathan Edwards for Today, provides insight into the the intimate world of Jonathan Edwards.
Page 162-163.
Several personal writings of Jonathan Edwards pull back the curtain a little on this intimate world of the Edwards household. When Jonathan was still single, he wrote this love poem to [...]

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‘Edwards cherished the Calvinist doctrine of the sovereignty of grace. He agreed that Christ died only for the elect and that they alone would experience the supernatural and sovereign “divine influence and operation, by which saving grace is obtained.’
E. Brooks Holifield in ‘Edwards as Theologian’ in The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Edwards, 149.

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Sam Storms, author of Signs of the Spirit: An Interpretation of Jonathan Edwards’s “Religious Affections,” will be on the Converse with Scholars program tonight, January 24, discussing Edwards’s famous work. The program begins at 10pm EST.
UPDATE: The program is now available for download. Click here to stream, or “right-click, save as” to [...]

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In this two part interview, C. J. Mahaney interviews Mark Dever.

Life and Ministry with Mark Dever
Building Healthy Churches

Related Links and Resources:

C. J. Mahaney:

Humility: True Greatness
Cross Centered Life: Keeping the Gospel the Main Thing
Living the Cross Centered Life: Keeping the Gospel the Main Thing

Mark Dever:

Nine Marks of a Healthy Church
Deliberate Church: Building Your Ministry on [...]

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I recently had the opportunity to talk with Michael Gaydosh at Solid Ground Christian Books about some of the great works they are making available to a new generation of readers. There is a resurgence of interest in Reformed Theology and SGCB has made it there goal to provide God-centered, Christ-exalting, Scripture-saturated Reformed and Calvinistic [...]

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