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Title:  Part 1 The Essence of the Unwasted Life, Part 2 The Origin of the Unwasted Life, Part 3a The Appearance of the Unwasted Life, Part 3b The Appearance of the Unwasted Life [MP3]
Speaker:  John Piper
Source:  Desiring God Resource Library
Description:  From the Don't Waste Your Life Regional Conference Spring 2008. A phenomenal set of messages on the unwasted life! Piper answers the questions: "What is the ultimate aim of the life that truly counts?", "What must happen for such a life to be lived?", and "What does this life look like?"
Other Media:  Transcript Part 1, Part 2, Part 3a, Part 3b (website)

Labels: audio, christian hedonism, faith, favorites, foreign missions, God's will, idolatry, sovereignty, suffering and sacrifice, the unwasted life

Title:  Oh, That I May Never Loiter on My Heavenly Journey! (Reflections on the Life and Ministry of David Brainerd) [MP3]
Speaker:  John Piper
Source:  Desiring God Resource Library (Biographies)
Description:  Despite his almost constant, debilitating pain and depression, David Brainerd persevered to take the Gospel of Jesus to the unreached Indians of the early American frontier. Brainerd only lived 29 years. But (owing mostly to his biography by Jonathan Edwards) his life has been used to incalculable effect for the Kingdom of God. He didn't waste his life.
"The list of missionaries who testify to the inspiration of Brainerd’s Life through the work of Jonathan Edwards is longer than any of us knows: Francis Asbury, Thomas Coke, William Carey, Henry Martyn, Robert Morrison, Samuel Mills, Fredrick Schwartz, Robert M’Cheyne, David Livingstone, Andrew Murray. And a few days before he died, Jim Elliot, who was martyred by the Aucas, entered in his diary, 'Confession of pride—suggested by David Brainerd’s Diary yesterday—must become an hourly thing with me.'"
"There are a few Indians—perhaps several hundreds—who owe their everlasting life to the direct love and ministry of David Brainerd.... If we live 29 years or if we live 99 years, would not any hardships be worth the saving of one person from the eternal torments of hell for the everlasting enjoyment of the glory of God?"
"Remember your leaders who have spoken God's word to you. As you carefully observe the outcome of their lives, imitate their faith." (Hebrews 13:7)
Other Media:  Transcript (website)

Labels: audio, christian hedonism, faith, favorites, foreign missions, Grace, ministry, sovereignty, suffering and sacrifice, testimony, the unwasted life

Title:  How Few There Are Who Die So Hard! (Suffering and Success in the Life of Adoniram Judson: The Cost of Bringing Christ to Burma) [MP3]
Speaker:  John Piper
Source:  Desiring God Resource Library (Biographies)
Description:  John Piper tells the story of one of my spiritual heroes, Adoniram Judson.
"Our Lord Jesus said to us in very solemn words, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit' (John 12:24). Then he adds this: 'Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life' (John 12:25). In other words, a fruitful life and an eternal life come from this: dying like a seed and hating your life in this world. What overwhelms me, as I ponder this and trace the life of Adoniram Judson, America's first foreign missionary, is how strategic it was that he died so many times and in so many ways."
"Remember your leaders who have spoken God's word to you. As you carefully observe the outcome of their lives, imitate their faith." (Hebrews 13:7)
Other Media:  Transcript (website)

Labels: audio, churchplanting, faith, favorites, foreign missions, ministry, suffering and sacrifice, testimony, the unwasted life

Title:  Church Planting Movements parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 [MP3]
Speaker:  David Garrison
Source:  "Church Planting Movements - Dr. David Garrison" podcast
Description:  "These are days of great harvest, and nowhere on earth is the harvest greater than in the growing number of Church Planting Movements God is stirring around the world."
"In 2001 a newly emerging Church Planting Movement yields 48,000 new believers and 1,700 new churches in one year." —A church planting movement is no fad. It is something real and spectacular that God is doing among many people groups all over the world. "Look at the nations and watch—and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told." (Habakkuk 1:5)

Titles:
01 Intro to CPMs
02 Why CPMs are Important
03 Reverse Engineering
04 CPMs around the World
05 Ten Universal Elements in a CPM
06 CPMs and Non-Literates
07 Leadership Development
08 Fruit that Lasts
09 What is a Church?
10 In Most CPMs
11 Contextualization and CPMs
12 How to kill a CPM
13 FAQs about CPMs
14 Baptism and CPMs
15 POUCH Churches
16 Discipleship in CPMs
17 Muslim Background CPMs
18 10 CPM Commandments
19 Prayer Requests
20 Prayer of Thanksgiving

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Other Media:  Booklet (PDF), Book (website)

Labels: audio, churchplanting, community, CPMs, favorites, first-century thinking, foreign missions, ministry, preaching and teaching, simple church, small groups, testimony

Title:  The Right Use of the Law [MP3]
Speaker:  Paris Reidhead
Description:  Paris talks to us about the use of the Law in New Covenant times. He shows how we have, without defining sin by the use of the Law, unwittingly stripped the Spirit in our evangelism and teaching of "the only tool He has ever used to prepare men for Grace."

Labels: audio, Commandments, evangelism, false conversion, foreign missions, Grace, idolatry, Law, preaching and teaching, testimony

Title:  Camels in the Road [MP3]
Speaker:  Floyd McClung
Source:  All Nations: Floyd and Sally McClung Media
Description:  "Floyd tells an amazing story about the night he almost ran over a camel while driving in Afghanistan. He draws one of the 'five most important messages of my life' from the story."

Labels: audio, christian hedonism, favorites, foreign missions, God's will, suffering and sacrifice, the unwasted life

Title:  Single in Christ (A Name Better than Sons and Daughters) [MP3]
Speaker:  John Piper
Source:  Desiring God Resource Library
Description:  John Piper gives a solidly biblical reminder to Christians in our Modern, Western culture that the Bible holds a special place for people who choose to worship God in a lifetime of singleness, celibacy, and service for Jesus. He explains how both marriage and singleness have their benefits and drawbacks, but that singleness is uniquely positioned for ministry, and discipling, in particular. Singles and married people should all listen to this sermon. Piper helps put natural family relationships in perspective to the potential of giving birth to an exponential spiritual family in the Spirit of Christ.
Other Media:  Transcript (website)

Labels: audio, christian hedonism, discipling, favorites, foreign missions, ministry, singleness dating courtship and marriage, suffering and sacrifice, the unwasted life

Title:  How to Know God's Will [MP3]
Speaker:  Floyd McClung
Source:  All Nations: Floyd and Sally McClung Media
Description:  "When followers of Jesus face important decisions, how do they discern the will of God? Floyd explains the process of hearing and knowing the voice of God. He gives the listener 'handles' to hold onto as they walk through the decision making process. Sharing intimate and sometimes humorous experiences from his own life, he illustrates important Biblical principles for making the 'big' decisions." (Also available at SermonCloud.com)

Labels: audio, favorites, foreign missions, God's will, the unwasted life

Title:  Arm Yourself to Be Aimed in the Right Direction [MP3]
Speaker:  Floyd McClung
Source:  All Nations: Floyd and Sally McClung Media
Description:  "Floyd shares his conviction that every believer will suffer, the question is whether we will suffer for the right things. Mixing humor with straight talk, Floyd shares why he believes we should embrace suffering rather than run from it." (Also available at SermonCloud.com)

Labels: audio, christian hedonism, favorites, foreign missions, God's will, mercy and justice, suffering and sacrifice, the unwasted life

Title:  Don't Waste Your Life [MP3]
Speaker:  John Piper
Source:  Don't Waste Your Life
Description:  A powerful message warning us not to waste our lives, nor to waste our deaths... to not just—as Adrian Rogers once put it—"draw a breath and draw a salary."
Other Media:  Transcript (website), Full Book (PDF)

Labels: audio, christian hedonism, favorites, foreign missions, God's will, suffering and sacrifice, the unwasted life

Title:  World Missions and the End of History [MP3]
Speaker:  John Piper
Source:  Desiring God Resource Library
Description:  "God is most glorified in us when we are so satisfied in him that we accept suffering and death for his sake in order to extend our joy to the unreached peoples of the earth."
Piper explains the difference and relationship between domestic ministries and frontier missions to the world's unreached people groups.
Other Media:  Transcript (website)

Labels: audio, christian hedonism, evangelism, favorites, foreign missions, God's will, sovereignty, suffering and sacrifice

Title:  Doing Missions When Dying Is Gain [MP3]
Speaker:  John Piper
Source:  Desiring God Resource Library
Description:  "Is Christ so valuable to you that no loss you experience for his sake will feel like losing in the end?" One of my absolute favorite sermons! Very highly recommended.

Labels: audio, christian hedonism, favorites, foreign missions, God's will, sovereignty, suffering and sacrifice, the unwasted life

Title:  Ten Shekels and a Shirt [MP3]
Speaker:  Paris Reidhead
Source:  SermonIndex
Description:  Do you seek and save the lost primarily to improve upon the justice of God? Or, so that "the Lamb that was slain [may] receive the reward of His suffering"? The most downloaded sermon of all time on SermonIndex.net, "Ten Shekels and a Shirt" will challenge your thinking!
"In Judges 17, the prophet, Micah hires a Levite as his personal priest. The price for the Levite's services was ten shekels (of silver) and a shirt. The real point of this sermon is an indictment of individuals and organizations practising humanism behind a mask of Christianity! 'This sermon should be preached on a regular basis in every church in America!'.... Listen to this life-changing message TODAY!"
Other Media:  Transcript (PDF), History (website)

Labels: audio, christian hedonism, evangelism, favorites, foreign missions, heart, idolatry, Law, testimony