She and Him – “Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?”
Skimboarding In A Storm
The Sky
Sky from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.
City & Colour – “The Girl”
Maybe one of the most highly sought out sermons from Passion 2010 is Francis Chan’s breakout session. Thankfully, I made it into this session and about Paul and suffering, and it was one of the highlights of the day. This by far was one of the best sessions at Passion 2010 and I highly recommend that you take some time to listen:
You can buy the individual breakout sessions here!
You may be thinking that you do not know who Ben Stuart is so you will just skip this breakout session. However, I highly recommend you listen to this guy and here what he has to say, because not only is he right on but its an encouraging message we all need to hear. Check it out here:
You can buy the individual breakout sessions here!
Many have asked for it and here you can listen to the full breakout session from Passion 2010 of John Piper preaching on “A Sacred Ambition for the Glory of Christ Where He Is Not Yet Named.” The blurb for the session reads,
Do you share the apostle Paul’s sacred ambition to bring the gospel to peoples who otherwise have no access to it? If you are ready to leverage your life for those among the world’s hardest and most unreached peoples then this breakout is for you.
Listen to the breakout session here:
Mumford & Sons, who have become somewhat like the Vampire Weekend of bluegrass/folk, certainly leave their methodical mark on covering Vampire Weekend’s “Cousins”.
God is still graciously sovereign over all things even when disabilities hit home.
Joni Eareckson Tada, who is almost totally paralyzed from a swimming accident, still lifts her arms as high as she can in her braces and shout, “This is the prison where God set me free.”
What she meant was that the pain and limitation and frustration brought on by her disability threw her back on God in such a way that she discovered what true freedom in life is all about—and it is not about arms and legs and skiing and jogging. It’s about forgiveness and hope and love and meaning and eternal life. It’s about knowing that God is for you and not against you even in suffering. That’s how grace becomes visible.
Now Joni runs an incredible ministry, Joni and Friends, that that reaches out to extending the love and message of Christ to people who are affected by disability, whether it is the disabled person, a family member, or friend. Our objective is to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of this group of people in practical ways.
In attempts of spreading their message to the world Joni has been releasing episodes of stories of families who have children with disabilities and the joy it brings to their home.
This morning I just weeped as I watched another episode about families with children with disabilities and how they are a great blessing from the Lord. My favorite moment in the video is when R.C. Sproul Jr. discusses that Jesus says that all children are a blessing and not just healthy ones but ALL CHILDREN.
I highly recommend you take some time to watch the FULL EPISODE HERE!
When Disability Hits Home. It features Charles Colson and RC Sproul, two esteemed Christian leaders who reconcile their faith and theology with the challenging realities of having special needs grandchildren. Here is the trailer for the episode:
David Platt preached last Sunday stating:
Over 4.5 billion who are without Christ are right now heading to an eternity in hell. That is a vast spiritual need. Add to that a vast physical need. 26,000 children will die today because of preventable disease. God has chosen to determine the measure and integrity of faith by our response to the poor. If this book is true, then we do not have time to play games with our lives. We do not have time to play games in the church. I want to call us this morning to forsake hopes, plans, dreams, possessions, and ideas of a nice, comfortable, safe middle-class American life. I want to call you to forsake it all in radical abandonment for Jesus Christ.
What does it look like when the church is a radical, gospel-centered community that is spending herself for the spread of the gospel in the world?
Those most effective in reaching the many are those most passionate about reaching the one. You want to see if Christ is true? Look at the people who follow him, how they love one another, how they serve the needy! This is the mark of the early church.
Do we realize who has saved us? Christ has authority over all things! And we as the church are the fullness of Christ, which means the authority of Christ has been entrusted to the church. We can have great confidence and can rest in the authority of Christ, having been united with Him who has freely given us all things. I encourage you to have confidence in the living and sufficient Word of God.
Faith by itself not accompanied by action is dead. If we are turning a deaf ear to the radical needs around us, we are not the people of God. But it is far easier to feed the poor than to share the gospel. The gospel brings these things in that Christ who was rich became poor so that we who are poor might become rich. Christ alone can produce both of these things.
Gospel-centered community creates a passion to meet the needs of the people around us and a passion to proclaim the gospel which alone can save.
John Piper host a Q&A with Urban Pastors out in Los Angeles, CA at Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church. It was a great blessing and interesting time to hear Pastor Piper answer some difficult questions. Check it out…
Over 18 million black babies have been aborted since Roe vs. Wade. This should bother you!
Southern Seminary President, Al Mohler, informs people about the issue of abortion and a call for us to make a stand now! Here is an excerpt of his post discussing that black people are an endangered species in America and introduces us to Catherine Davis. Read below:
The Director of Minority Outreach for Georgia Right to Life, Davis is taking that message to the public, along with a massive public awareness campaign that has captured national and international attention. Drivers in the metro Atlanta area are seeing billboards that demand attention — and are changing minds.
Her argument is simple and the statistics are irrefutable. She accuses abortion providers in general, and Planned Parenthood in particular, of targeting blacks for abortion. She told The New York Times, “The impact of abortion has become so great that it has begun to impact our fertility rate.”
Consider the chilling facts documented in the data. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 57.4% of the abortions performed in Georgia in 2006 were performed on African-American women, but blacks make up only 30% of Georgia’s population. Nationwide, the pattern is similarly stacked against black babies — black women have approximately 37% of all abortions each year, while blacks make up only 13% of the national population.
You can see why Catherine Davis’ message demands attention. She points also to the fact that, in Georgia, every single abortion clinic is located in areas of black concentration. She argues, quite pointedly, that this amounts to an intentional effort to reduce the black population in the United States.
As she told the Los Angeles Times, “Let me put it this way . . . 18,870,000 black babies have been aborted since Roe v. Wade. If those babies had not been aborted, we would be 59 million strong — over 19% of the population.”
You can read the rest of the article here!
