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(1) True Christianity has always taught the inspiration, sufficiency, and supremacy of Holy Scripture. It has told men that “God’s written Word” is the only trustworthy rule of faith and practice in religion; that God requires nothing to be believed that is not in this Word; and that nothing is right which contradicts it. It has never allowed reason, or the voice of the Church, to be placed above, or on a level with Scripture. It has steadily maintained that, however imperfectly we may understand it, the Old Book is meant to be the only standard of life and doctrine.

(2) True Christianity has always taught fully the sinfulness, guilt and corruption of human nature. It has told men, that they are born in sin, deserve God’s wrath and condemnation, and are naturally inclined to do evil. It has never allowed that men and women are only weak and pitiable creatures, who can become good when they please, and make their own peace with God. On the contrary, it has steadily declared man’s danger and vileness, and his pressing need of a Divine forgiveness and atonement for his sins, a new birth or conversion, and an entire change of heart.

(3) True Christianity has always set before men, the Lord Jesus Christ as the chief object of faith and hope in religion—as the Divine Mediator between God and men, the only source of peace of conscience, and the root of all spiritual life. The main things it has ever insisted on about Christ, are—the atonement for sin He made by His death, His sacrifice on the cross, the complete redemption from guilt and condemnation by His blood, His victory over the grave by His resurrection, His active life of intercession at God’s right hand, and the absolute necessity of simple faith in Him. In short, it has made Christ the Alpha and the Omega in Christian theology.

(4) True Christianity has always honored the Person of God the Holy Spirit, and magnified His work. It has never taught that all professing Christians have the grace of the Spirit in their hearts, as a matter of course—because they are baptized, or because they belong to a Church. It has steadily maintained that the fruits of the Spirit are the only evidence of having the Spirit, and that those fruits must be seen! It has always taught, that we must be born of the Spirit, led by the Spirit, sanctified by the Spirit, and feel the operations of the Spirit—and that a close walk with God in the path of His commandments, a life of holiness, love, self-denial, purity, and zeal to do good—are the only satisfactory marks of the Holy Spirit.

Such is true Christianity. Well would it have been for the world, if there had been more of it during the last nineteen centuries! Too often, and in too many parts of Christendom, there has been so little of it—that Christ’s religion has seemed extinct, and has fallen into utter contempt!

This is the Christianity which, in the days of the Apostles, “turned the world upside down!” It was this which emptied the idol temples of their worshipers, routed the Greek and Roman philosophers, and obliged even heathen writers to confess that the followers of the “new superstition,” as they called it, were people who loved one another, and lived very pure and holy lives!

Let it never be forgotten, that its leading principles are those which are least likely to please the natural man. On the contrary, they are precisely those which are calculated to be unpopular and to give offense. Proud man does not like to be told that he is a weak, guilty sinner—that he cannot save his own soul, and must trust in the work of another—that he must be converted and have a new heart—that he must live a holy, self-denying life, and come out from the world.

Yet, this is the Christianity which is doing good at this day, wherever real good is done. The only religious teaching which can show solid, positive results—is that which gives prominence to the doctrines which I have endeavored to describe. Wherever they are rightly taught, Christianity can point to fruits which are an unanswerable proof of its Divine origin. There are myriads of professing Christians who have no life or reality in their religion—and are only nominal members of Christ’s Church. Except for going to church on Sundays, they give no evidence of true Christianity. If you mark their daily life—they seem neither to think, nor feel, nor care for their souls, or God, or eternity. Men and women who crowd churches on Sundays—and then live worldly selfish lives all the week—are the best and most efficient allies of the devil.

True faith is not a mere “mental assent” to certain theological propositions—but a living, burning, active principle—which works by love, purifies the heart, overcomes the world, and brings forth much fruit of holiness and good works. Let us live as if we really believed every jot and tittle of Scripture—and as if a dying, risen, interceding, and coming Christ, were continually before our eyes!

All of the past sessions and seminars are now free to download.

The MP3s are provided below:

1. Session 1 – Total Depravity
2. Session 2 – Unconditional Election



3. Session 3 – Limited Atonement
4. Session 4 – Irresistible Grace
5. Session 5 – Perserverance of the Saints

Here’s a four-part sermon series from Moo on the book:

1. Part One – Col 1:3-14 — Douglas Moo gives a broad overview of the book of Colossians of how they were trying to fit Christ into the worldview they’d already adopted. He homes on some key thoughts in the book, such as bearing fruit and growing and God’s rescue and redemption, like that in Exodus.



2. Part Two – Col 1:15-20 — This section of Colossians celebrates the supremacy of Christ in creation and the new creation. All you could possibly know about God is found in Christ. He is not some “blurry, impressionistic view” of God but the exact image of the Father.
3. Part Three – Col 1:21-23; 2:6-15 — The message of Colossians is that you don’t need to go running after spiritual truth in other places in the “religious marketplace” outside of Christ. What is a life lived in Christ look like? It’s rooted in Him, built up in Him, strengthened in Him, and full in Him.
4. Part Four – Col 2:6-23 — Doug tackles the difficulties surrounding the text concerning baptism and seeks to understand it in its context in the chapter. Baptism is a “last act of conversion” where it is more or less a “sealing” upon our conversion. “Your Christian life needs to be directed by the transforming work of the Spirit within,” he underscores, “creating the mind of Christ in you, leading you to live a life that pleases Him and honors Him.

1. Child Training
2. (Biblical Family) Biblical Manhood – Part 1
3. (Biblical Family) Biblical Manhood – Part 2
4. (Biblical Family) Biblical Womanhood – Part 1
5. (Biblical Family) Biblical Womanhood – Part 2
6. (Biblical Family) Biblical Womanhood – Part 3
7. Q & A — Paul Washer & Dr. Voddie Baucham – Part 1
8. Q & A — Paul Washer & Dr. Voddie Baucham – Part 2
9. Q & A — Paul Washer & Dr. Voddie Baucham – Part 3
10. Q & A — Paul Washer & Dr. Voddie Baucham – Part 4

Download the sessions here:

1. Reforming our understanding of God
2. Reforming our understanding of Evangelism
3. Reforming our understanding of Justification
4. Reforming our understanding of Holiness
5. Q & A

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1. A Journey into the Heart of God
2. God’s Immanence and Immensity
3. God’s Goodness
4. The Justice of God
5. The Mercy of God
6. The Grace of God
7. God’s Omnipresence
8. God’s Omnipresence and Immanence
9. The Holiness of God
10. The Perfection of God

1. Introduction to 1st Peter
2. God’s Abundant Mercy
3. Begotten Again unto a Living Hope
4. The Christians Inheritance
5. The Defiled World and Our Undefiled Inheritance
6. Rejoice…Though Now…Ye Are in Heaviness
7. The Appearing of Jesus Christ
8. Whom Having Not Seen, Ye Love
9. Heart Knowledge vs. Head Knowledge



10. Grand Mystery of the Bible (Salvation)
11. Wherefore, Gird Up Your Minds and be Sober
12. As Obedient Children
13. On Fashioning Ourselves as Christians
14. Be Ye Holy, For I am Holy
15. The Precious Blood, Our Only Hope
16. Christ…Foreordained, Manifest
17. Seeing Ye Have Purified Your Souls
18. On Laying Aside Certain Things
19. The Chief Cornerstone and Us Cornerstones
20. Ye Are A Chosen Generation



21. As Strangers & Pilgrims, Abstain From Fleshly Lusts
22. Our Walk in the Presence of the Unsaved
23. The Christians Relation to Government
24. Venerate All God’s Creation
25. On Wives and Their Place in Family Life
26. Be Ye All of One Mind
27. Who is He That Will Harm you?
28. After Conversion, the Remainder of Your Life Should Be Different
29. False Teaching On Obscure Teaching
30. Suffering In God’s Will and Out
31. Christian’s Trial and His Committal
32. On God’s Sheep and Their Needs
33. Humble Yourselves Under the Mighty Hand of God
34. Casting All Your Cares Upon Him

Audio is now available from New Attitude 2008:

1. Ripping, Burning, Eating: A Right Response to God’s Word | Josh Harris | Saturday, May 24
2. The Authority of Scripture | Mark Dever | Sunday, May 25
3. Bible Q&A | Al Mohler | Sunday, May 25
4. The Troubled Soul: God’s Word and Our Feelings | C.J. Mahaney | Sunday, May 25
5. What’s the Point?: Growing in Vision for Diligent Study | Eric Simmons | Monday, May 26
6. William Tyndale: A Life Transformed By God’s Word | John Piper | Monday, May 26
7. Fighting for Faith with God’s Word | John Piper | Monday, May 26
8. God as Father: Understanding the Doctrine of Adoption in God’s Word | C.J. Mahaney | Tuesday, May 27

Martin Luther: In His Own Words (Unabridged) by Martin Luther
Most all Christians know the name Martin Luther. Less familiar, however, are his words. This compilation of many of Luther’s most important writings serves as an excellent introduction to those new to Luther. It also provides a fresh medium for people familiar with his writing. 2 Hrs. 45 Mins.

Use the coupon code MAY2008 to redeem this download. You can listen to sample audio here. Here is a list of the contents:
The Small Catechism

• 95 Theses
• On Faith and Coming to Christ
• On Confession and the Lord’s Supper
• Of the Office of Preaching
• Excerpt from Luther’s Tower Experience
• The Last Written Words of Luther

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Storms presented five messages on Jonathan Edwards at Grace Church, Chapel Hill, NC.

1. Jonathan Edwards #1
2. Jonathan Edwards #2
3. Jonathan Edwards #3
4. Jonathan Edwards #4
5. Jonathan Edwards #5

You may want to consider Sam Storms wonderfull book Signs of the Spirit: An Interpretation of Jonathan Edwards’ “Religious Affections”.

You may download the MP3s here:

1. Bleating Wolves: Evangelicals & Catholics Together, John Robbins
2. The Structure of the Roman Church-State, Richard Bennett
3. A Brief History of Roman Persecution, Richard Bennett
4. The Roman Church-State Doctrine of Authority, Robert Zins
5. Justification and the Roman Catholic Doctrine of Salvation, Richard Bennett
6. The Occult and Roman Superstitions, Timothy Kauffman
7. The Political Thought of the Roman Church-State, John Robbins
8. The Economic Thought of the Roman Church-State, John Robbins
9. Romanism and the Westminster Confession, James Bordwine

Disclaimer: I have not personally listened to all 9 lectures.

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Related: The quotes were taken from this sermon.

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Anyone interested in seeing a church become spiritually healthy must aim at seeing that body increasingly become everything that God’s Word calls a church to be. Mark Dever has helpfully defined a healthy church as one that “increasingly reflects God’s character as his character has been revealed in his Word.” The most important thing a local church can do is to fulfill its calling to be the church.

Read the complete post here.

Related link: Restoring Health to an Unhealthy Church: Why Attempt It?

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This is a powerful plea to see the biblical precedent to raise godly homes in our day. Voddie Baucham (author of Family Driven Faith) preaches to a group of more than 1,000 pastors and church leaders gathered for the Southern Baptists of Texas State Evangelism Conference in the Dallas Metroplex. No one was ready for what happened next.

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A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections stands as Edwards’s most penetrating interpretation of the awakenings of his time, not to mention one of the most penetrating of any time. As in Some Thoughts, he argued against the extremes of emotionalism on the one hand and intellectualism on the other. Affections were essential to true religion, but they had to be tested. First, Edwards lays out his religious psychology of affections, which encompassed both understanding and will and involved the total range of human faculties. Answering critics of the revival, Edwards then discusses at length a series of “negative” signs, or unreliable criteria for judging the graciousness of affections. Finally, and most famously, he provided twelve “positive” signs for self-examination. The twelfth sign, which Edwards gave the fullest treatment, was the importance of Christian practice as evidence of the state of the heart. Here, for Edwards, was the ultimate standard for visible sainthood.

Sermon Cloud

Disclaimer: I have not listened to every session.

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John Piper is at Wheaton College this week doing a series of messages on “Treasuring Christ and the Call to Suffer.” He began this morning, exhorting the students that “if you are making it your life ambition to avoid suffering, you will perish and suffer forever.”

1. Listen to “Treasuring Christ and the Call to Suffer, Part 1.” (MP3)
2. Listen to “Treasuring Christ and the Call to Suffer, Part 2.” (MP3)
3. Listen to “Treasuring Christ and the Call to Suffer, Part 3.” (MP3)
4. Listen to “Treasuring Christ and the Call to Suffer, Part 3. Q&A.” (MP3)
5. Listen to “Treasuring Christ and the Call to Suffer, Part 4.” (MP3)

The Desiring God blog has a roundup of Piper’s messages during his time in Wheaton.

Disclaimer: I have listened to these MP3’s myself at the writing of this post.

Free MP3 available for download here.