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Check out the new Jonathan Edwards Center website at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

• Outline of John Owen’s Mortification of Sin at TheResurgence
• Did He Get Married Too Young? at AlbertMohler.com
• Christianity and McLarenism (part 1) from Kevin DeYoung
• Christianity and McLarenism (part 2) from Kevin DeYoung

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• Justin Taylor shares an Outline of Biblical History from Graeme Goldsworthy’s book According to Plan: The Unfolding Revelation of God in the Bible
• Justin also points to the ESV Bible reading plans and the six ways to read them as well as instructions on getting your Bible reading plan by podcast.
• Don Whitney proposes Ten Questions (plus some) for the New Year
• ChurchCrunch.com shares 5 Reasons Why Your Ministry Should Use Dropbox — not only is Dropbox great for ministries but anyone with a computer needs it. It’s a super easy way to keep files backed up and a quick way to share large files or photos and much more with anyone. Get Dropbox using this link and you and I get extra storage space for free.

Photo by Carolyn Pierpont

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Two free Christmas Songs from Sojourn Music

Two free Christmas Songs from Red Mountain Music

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• Kevin DeYoung shares his concerns with Rob Bell from the recent interview I pointed to here last week: This is Not Good
• As Noel Piper is cleaning her study and “digging out of the chaos” she shares quite a few lies she’s told herself over the years — maybe you, like me, can identify: Digging out of Chaos — LIES! Check out the before and after post too.
• Daryl Wingerd’s article on Discipline of Children: Lessons from Proverbs should be very helpful to fathers (and mothers).
• For those who’d like to know what it takes to prepare a sermon Colin Adams points to this helpful series of posts: 8 Steps To Preparing A Sermon

• Two posts from Kevin DeYoung on the importance of church membership: Why Membership Matters and A Few More Thoughts on Church Membership.
• For those wondering about Rob Bell, Phil Johnson cuts it straight about Bell’s swift departure from the truth as he weighs in on his Boston Globe interview.
• Marvin Olasky on the growing shift of higher education options moving online: Class Without Rooms: Online Higher Education
• Free MP3 audio book download: Wasted Faith by Jim Elliff “was written to help those who claim to be Christians know for sure they are in God’s family. It is sober look at the nature of authentic faith and its various counterfeits.”
• At GotQuestions.org — What is the English Standard Version (ESV)?

• I really enjoy Daily Light on the Daily Path at the ESV Bible Online website. It’s a daily collection of passages with a morning and evening reading each based on one theme.
• I’m a dork — and I’m raising kids who are dorks: Raising Dorks
• A catchy title and an article you need to read: Making the Best of an Ugly Wife

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Once again, West Cannon Baptist Church is hosting a conference for Pastors and ministry leaders that I’d highly recommend you squeeze into your busy schedule on Tuesday, September 22, 2009.

Don’t Stop Loving the Church – Bible Conference for Pastors and Ministry Leaders at West Cannon Baptist Church

Speakers
Kevin DeYoung
Ted Kluck
Mike Wittmer

Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck’s latest book is also recommended reading; Why We Love the Church: In Praise of Institutions and Organized Religion

The GARBC has been holding it’s 2009 Annual Conference this week at First Baptist Church, Elyria, Ohio.

Here’s the audio from the conference that’s been shared from the Baptist Bulletin website.

Monday, June 22, 2009
Every People and Every Nation – Dr. Kevin Bauder
Regular Baptist History, Part 1 – Dr. Kevin Bauder

Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Cutting Straight, Part 1 – Dr. Renald Showers
Regular Baptist History, Part 2 – Dr. Kevin Bauder
A People for His Name – Dr. Kevin Bauder

Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Cutting Straight, Part 2 – Dr. Renald Showers
Regular Baptist History, Part 3 – Dr. Kevin Bauder
The New Humanity – Dr. Kevin Bauder

Thursday, June 25, 2009
Cutting Straight, Part 3 – Dr. Renald Showers
Thursday Night Introductions John Greening, national representative of the GARBC, introduces Aaron Blumer, pastor of Grace Baptist Church (Boyceville, Wis.) and publisher of the SharperIron.org website
Regular Baptist History, Part 4 – Dr. Kevin Bauder
The Eternal People – Dr. Kevin Bauder

Friday, June 26, 2009
John Greening’s Closing Sermon

Here’s a good article on Twitter from Al Mohler — Adventures Among the Twitterati — Why Use Twitter? He notes,

Twitter has changed my prayer life. More than any development in years, Twitter helps me to know what is going on in the lives of many friends and people far beyond. I have known how to pray in many specific ways. I have rejoiced with friends and have grieved with others. Priceless.

He also spoke about Twitter on his radio program today — you should be able to get the podcast of that here soon.

Follow me on Twitter if you like.

Eighteen years ago today we were celebrating the birth of our first child. Kevin was only a few days old in this photo. Things have changed — he’s much bigger now — and I look much older. We are so blessed by God’s gift to us in our eldest son.

March 22, 2009 – AM Service
Not Ashamed – 2 Timothy 1:8-12
Pastor Kevin
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Thanks to Justin Taylor reminding us to pray for the family and church of Pastor Fred Winters who was shot and killed while preaching yesterday morning.

More information from Justin Taylor:

This morning a gunman opened fire during the church service of First Baptist Church of Maryville, IL (about 20 minutes from downtown St. Louis), killing the senior pastor, Fred Winter. Rev. Dr. Winters was in the pulpit at the time. He sought to shield the bullets with his Bible, but died from a gunshot wound to his chest. The shooter’s gun jammed, and he stabbed himself with a knife. Others were injured in an attempt to restrain him. At this time only one death has been reported.

Dr. Winters had been their Senior Pastor since 1987, the same year that he was married to his wife Cindy Lee. He received a BA from Southwest Baptist University (1986), an MA in Systematic Theology and Church History from Wheaton (1986), an MDiv from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (1991), and a PhD from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He was the former president of the Illinois Baptist State Association and an adjunct professor at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

He is survived by his wife and two children, Alysia Grace and Cassidy Hope.

Please pray for his family, for this family of brothers and sisters in Christ, and for the unnamed gunman.

Our baby.

I ripped this off from my wife.

I’m pleased to announce that I’ve recently completed a small project assisting Maynard Belt by setting up a site for him to share the Barnabas File articles. It’s appropriately named BarnabasFile.com.

Maynard sends out the Barnabas File and other news on a regular basis. Head on over and subscribe. The Barnabas File will be especially helpful for those in pastoral ministry.