Here are some more short biographies of people from the Reformation:
Thomas Becon: The Monday Morning Protestant – Brian Hanson (DG)
William Tyndale: The Underground Translator – John Piper (DG)
Martin Bucer: The Protestant Melting Pot – Marshall Segal (DG)
Marie Dentière: The First Lady in France – Adrien Segal (DG)
Johannes Oecolampadius: The Monastery’s Lost Houselamp – Douglas Wilson (DG)
Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:
Souls Need Songs: How God Shapes Us Through Singing – Hayden Nesbit (DG)
God made our souls for song. Scripture brims with God’s call for his people to sing his praises. Something about singing refreshes and reorients our souls
8 Ways to Measure Your Love for the Bible – Tim Challies
Here are a few ways to measure whether or not you truly love the Word.
Diagnosing & Mortifying the Sin of Complaining – Geoffrey R. Kirkland
Complaining isn’t, however, the real issue. Complaining is the outward manifestation of other heart-sins taking place in that moment. Let’s diagnose complaining. When we complain, we manifest three heart-sins that are all taking place together.
Worshiping a Golden Calf on Sunday Morning is Deceptively Easy – Jared Wilson
On Sundays, our sanctuaries fill with people seeking worship, and not one person comes in set to neutral. We must take great care, then, not to assume that even in our religious environments, where we put the Scriptures under so many noses, that it is Jesus the exalted Christ who is being worshiped.
Hope you have a great Lord’s Day!
Here are some more good and short biographies of people from the Reformation:
Philip Melanchthon: The Gentle Lutheran – David Mathis (DG)
Wibrandis Rosenblatt: The Bride of the Reformation – Noel Piper (DG)
Wolfgang Capito: The Protestant Peacemaker – Rick Shenk (DG)
Menno Simons: The Fearless Pacifist – Ryan Griffith (DG)
Peter Martyr Vermigli: The Phoenix of Florence – Chris Castaldo (DG)
Here are some more good posts on the Reformation:
The Reformation & the Rediscovery of Christian Assurance – Eric Davis (Cripplegate)
Tetzel on 7 Years in Purgatory for Every Sin – Gene Veith
Protestant and Catholic: What’s the Difference? – Kevin DeYoung
10 Things You Should Know about the Reformation – Tim Chester (Crossway)
There are a lot of great posts out there as we celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. I’ll be linking to many over next few weeks. Here is the first batch – short biographies of four pre-Reformation reformers you should know:
John Wycliffe: The Morning Star of the Reformation – Stephen Nichols (DG)
Peter Waldo: The First Tremor – Jon Bloom (DG)
Jan Hus: The Goosefather – Greg Morse (DG)
Girolamo Savonarola: The Florentine Forerunner – Zach Howard (DG)
Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:
Practical Suggestions for Cultivating Communion with God – Kelly Kapic (Crossway)
Communion with God is a deep need for every human, whether we acknowledge the need or not. Communion with God is how we were made to function, and it is ultimately about a loving and very present relationship with the triune Creator.
Two Gifts You Give To Others in Your Sanctification – Tim Challies
Your sanctification is a gift to others. Your continual growth in holiness is not something you emphasize merely for your own benefit or your own assurance, but something you pursue for the benefit of others.
One Man’s Dream Destroyed Millions – Jon Bloom (DG)
We must confront our own wicked proneness to objectify others and resolve all the more to war against it. We humans have a horrible, sinful tendency to view others as roles — too often expendable “extras” — in the epic moving picture of our story, not souls in the real epic of God’s story. The fallen human nature, unhinged from God’s reality, seeks to construct its own preferred reality. And it uses other people to do it.
Are You a Healthy Church Member? – Thabiti Anyabwile (Crossway)
A healthy church member is someone that, in one sense, shares all the sensibilities of a good pastor. They’re going to have a concern for the spiritual growth of others, they’re going to have a concern for the right teaching of God’s Word, and they will have a concern for the church’s witness to the community, for reaching their neighbors and friends.
Hope you have a great Lord’s Day with your local church!
Here are some good posts for Pastor Appreciation Month:
The Cheap Way to Bless Your Pastor – Kevin DeYoung
3 Reasons Your Pastor Desperately Needs Prayer And Encouragement – Stephen Altrogge
How to Pray for Your Pastor – Melton Duncan (Ligonier)
8 Prayers You Should Regularly Pray For Your Pastor – Stephen Altrogge
Here are some good posts on small town church ministry:
Why I Love the Rural Church – Brandon Pearce (FTC)
3 Challenges of Small-Town Ministry – Donnie Griggs (TGC)
Are Small Churches Less Fruitful? – John Piper (DG)
Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:
Be Patient with Your Slow Growth – Jon Bloom (DG)
Godliness is not your Personality – David Murray
Don’t Speak Up: On the Spiritual Discipline of Silence – Mark Dever (9 Marks)
Sunday is End-Times Warfare – Peyton Hill (FTC)
Hope you have a great Lord’s Day worshiping your great God with your local church!
The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood recently released the Nashville Statement. The statement declares the Biblical teaching on human gender and sexuality. It is helpful summary for the church today living in the midst of our culture’s confusion about these issues – confusion that has invaded the church. You can read the statement here. And then follow up with several insightful posts on why it is needed and why different people signed it:
CBMW Releases Coalition Statement on Biblical Sexuality – Matt Damico
Why the Nashville Statement now, and what about article 10? – Denny Burk
Rosaria Butterfield: “Why I Signed the Nashville Statement” – Rosaria Butterfield
When Calling Yourself a “Christian” Isn’t Enough – Adam Parker
Why I, Peter Jones, signed the Nashville Statement on Sexuality – Peter Jones
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