November 16, 2008 - AM Service
1 John 5:1-5 - Results of Being Born of God
Pastor Kevin — Higgins Lake Baptist Church

I have a new resource of challenge and encouragement for pastors to share with you — C.J. Mahaney, Jeff Purswell, and Joshua Harris have begun a new podcast. Go check out the Leadership Interview Series and subscribe to the RSS feed to get updates. The first podcast is on the topic of The Pastor and His Reading - find the show notes here and get the mp3 here.

Update: Here’s the piece on the T4G blog that refers to John Stott’s time allotments for reading and study apart from study for sermon preparation.

• Christianaudio.com has available for free download during November the unabridged audio book Religious Affections by Jonathan Edwards — free registration required, use coupon code NOV2007 (see free audio page each month for a free download)
• Preaching Points Podcast is a fairly new and brief podcast from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, that seeks to encourage preachers toward preaching excellence — Haddon Robbinson is one of the participants (via UW)
• At Pulpit Magazine, Seizing Opportunities for Evangelism
• At The Baptist Bulletin, an update on a completely normal family — home of the McCaughey septuplets

Desiring God Radio has announced that they will be leaving the airwaves soon–Radio Without Radio? Why Desiring God Will No Longer Air on Radio Stations–but they aren’t done broadcasting. They’ll be focusing their energy on making their radio programs available on the internet instead of pushing the program through Christian radio stations.

Their announcment notes these interesting statistics…

“The folks at OnePlace.com tell us that Desiring God is among their most requested programs (50,000 to 70,000 requests per month). And our iTunes podcast consistently ranks in the top ten most requested programs in the “Religion & Spirituality” category (total subscribers currently unavailable). We frequently hear from online listeners. In fact, 85-90% of responses we receive from people who listen to our program come from those who listen online. But we’re not seeing growth in responses from radio station listeners, even though new stations were added this year.”