Darryl Dash provides the following link to Gordon-Conwell Seminary’s audio recordings of Dr. Timothy Keller’s lecture series Preaching to the Heart on MP3 CD for $25US. I imagine these will be collected in book form these days, but when I’m financial next week I’ll intending to secure a set. With postage to Australia they’ll cost …

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Last week I posted links to articles dealing with issues of gospel preaching, antinomianism and legalism. Since then Michael Bird has provided his thoughts on the issue. In addition, Dane Ortlund provides a gracious summary. John McLean teaches at the Presbyterian Theological Center in Sydney, and this timely essay on what it is to be  …

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Robert Murray McCheyne (or M’Cheyne) is something of a 18th century Presbyterian legend. At the Desiring God Conference John Piper continues his custom of delivering a biographical appreciation of a significant Christian figure from the past by delivering an address on M’Cheyne entitled ‘He Kissed the Rose and Felt the Thorn: Living and Dying in …

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From the Buzzard Blog, a good word for Black Dog Mondays. From as far back as I can remember I’ve been a perfectionist. Most pastors are perfectionists. I’m starting to think that a main reason God called me to be a pastor is to crush my perfectionism and set me increasingly free through the gospel. …

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