Audio: Ken Silva on Rob Bell and contemplative spirituality

Here’s a link to the Fighting for the Faith podcast featuring Silva:

“[Host Chris] Rosebrough and Silva discuss the way Bell makes a big mess in his sermon as he attempts to exegete — Watch out for those dogs, those men who do evil, those mutilators of the flesh. On this program they show you how Bell ends up doing the exact things he says these ‘dogs’ do. And in doing so Bell thereby actually ends up identifying himself as one of those ‘dogs.’”

Audio, video: Mars Hill parenting conference with Tedd Tripp

Available here (HT: Worship.com)

Tedd Tripp is the author of Shepherding a Child’s Heart.

Audio: “Paul’s Dark Night of the Soul”

Colin Adams shares a link to a recent sermon he preached with this title.

“Last Sunday, an unusually large number of people seemed to have been helped by my sermon. My introduction highlights who it is for:

‘Have you ever felt like this:

• your prayers seem ineffective
• your doubts feel paralysing
• your love for other Christians has waned
• your passion for evangelism has faded
• and if you’re honest, you have almost a complete lack of assurance and joy in Jesus’”

Eye-opening: “What if Starbucks marketed like a church?”

(HT: Jonathan Ignacio)

Thoughts:

• This makes several good points – but …
• Would it not be equally troubling if the church marketed just like Starbucks? What would that look like?
• It’s Americano, not ‘Americana‘ (FYI, if you want more bang for your buck, the Americano is the way to go: it’s cheaper than the latté but has an extra shot of espresso [100mg caffeine])

- HC

Apologetics audio files aplenty

… can be found at Apologetics 315 (HT: Jason Engwer at Triablogue).

Audio: Changes at Emergent Village

A conversation between Tony Jones, Brian McLaren, Mark Ostreicher, and Ivy Beckwith. Jones introduces the podcast thus:

“We’re making some significant changes in the structure and organization of Emergent Village. … We’re really moving toward a flattening … or making Emergent Village more of an egalitarian, social networking organization.”

See also this letter dated 10/30 from the EV board.

Four ways to hear the Bible on your iPod

Posted by the foolish galatian:

• The Daily Audio Bible- Read through the Bible in a year with Brian using several different translations
• Daily Audio Bible Devotional- A one minute devotional with Max McLean
• Today’s Proverb- Get a proverb every day from Max McLean
• The ESV Bible Reading Schedule- Pick from several plans to listen to the Bible in a year featuring the voice of David Cochran

Steve Green sings Luther’s Mighty Fortress

Happy Reformation Day … (HT: Cal.vini.st)

Wikipedia page on this song.

An election prayer and an election message

A prayer by John A. Hardon, a Jesuit priest (HT: WDTPRS?):

“Lord Jesus Christ, You told us to give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and to God what belongs to God. Enlighten the minds of our people [in] America. May we choose a President of the United States, and other government officials, according to Your Divine Will. Give our citizens the courage to choose leaders of our nation who respect the sanctity of unborn human life, the sanctity of marriage, the sanctity of marital relations, the sanctity of the family, and the sanctity of the aging. Grant us the wisdom to give You, what belongs to You, our God. If we do this, as a nation, we are confident You will give us an abundance of Your blessings through our elected leaders. Amen.”

Ligonier Ministries has made available this sermon by R. C. Sproul on voting.

Audio: “Why study church history?”

‘Ian the Ruminator’ gave a lecture on this topic, and shares a link to the mp3 at his blog.

Audio: recent lectures on dispensationalism

Delivered at the recent Darby Day Conference. Posted at the blog of the Trinity Millennialism Project:

• Dr Thomas Ice - “J. N. Darby and the Irvingites.”
• Dr Paul Wilkinson - “Can these bones live? - J. N. Darby and the Return of Israel’s King.”
• Dr Mark Sweetnam - “Two Peoples, Two Destinies, Two Bibles? - J. N. Darby’s Differential Hermeneutic.”

(HT: Allen Mickle)

FYI (from the TMP site):
John Nelson Darby, a Trinity graduate and Gold Medallist (1819), is arguably one of the most important but least well known of Irish thinkers. Darby was a principal architect of ‘dispensational premillennialism,’ an evangelical end-of-the-world-view to which an estimated 100 million Americans subscribe and which underpins Left Behind, the best-selling series of novels in American literary history, and, arguably, a series of presidential administrations. The Trinity Millennialism Project aims to emphasise the importance of Darby’s Irish context in a series of key events and publications, including a significant digitization project and the first intellectual biography of Darby.

Classic jazz album for $1.99

Trumpeter Lee Morgan’s The Sidewinder (mp3) from Amazon (HT: Zach Nielsen). From Wikipedia:

“The title track was one of the defining recordings of the soul jazz genre, becoming a jazz standard. An edited version was released as a single. The album was to become a huge seller, and highly influential - many subsequent Lee Morgan albums, and other Blue Note discs, would duplicate (or approximate) this album’s format, by following a long, funky opening blues with a handful of conventional hard bop tunes.”

Hear the title track …

Another perspective on poverty

Do U.S. government relief programs cause poverty? Watch this video from the Acton Institute: “How Not to Help the Poor” (HT: Justin Taylor):

Video: How did Christian slave owners justify slavery?

From the Acton Powerblog, number 8 in the Birth of Freedom Shorts series (’shorts’ is a fitting description — this one is just 1:45).

Susan Wise Bauer’s homepage.

Ligonier Pastors Conference 2008

… begins today, October 20, and runs to Oct. 23, in Lake Mary, Florida. Its theme is “Encouraging pastors to keep God at the center of ministry”.

Official site here. A bilingual webcast can be accessed here.

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