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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:  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:  The Gospel-Driven Church [MP3]
Speaker:  Dick Kaufmann
Source:  Acts 29 Multimedia
Description:  "The Gospel is out not to reform people but to transform people. Churches that preach for behavioral reformation tend to elevate middle-class values to the level of biblical norm and focus on external change. We resolve to seek transformation at the motivational and character level, not merely behavioral modification."
"The root of all of our problems is that something other than Christ is serving as our functional savior. Therefore we neither tell people: 'You shouldn't act like that—stop it!' nor 'You need to accept yourself as you are!' Rather, we call them to repent of their idols and trust in Christ who through his life and death is the only one who can give them all they are longing for."
Other Media:  Notes (website)

Labels: audio, churchplanting, culture, Grace, idolatry, ministry, preaching and teaching, testimony

Title:  My Gospel Journey [MP3]
Speaker:  Dick Kaufmann
Source:  Acts 29 Multimedia
Description:  Dick Kaufmann tells his own story of ministry, suffering, and God's way of teaching about his grace. A personal and very applicable message about how the Gospel relates to our lives on a daily, practical basis.
Other Media:  Timeline & Notes (website)

Labels: audio, churchplanting, favorites, Grace, growth, idolatry, ministry, suffering and sacrifice, testimony

Title:  Racial Harmony and Interracial Marriage [MP3]
Speaker:  John Piper
Source:  Desiring God Resource Library
Description:  "My aim today is to argue from Scripture and experience that interracial marriage is not only permitted by God but is a positive good in our day. That is, it is not just to be tolerated, but celebrated."
An extremely controversial message, Piper's message is one of clarity and a radical adherence to the Word of the Gospel—very much worth a listen.
Other Media:  Transcript (website)

Labels: audio, culture, idolatry, racial harmony, singleness dating courtship and marriage

Title:  Part 1 Being the Church in Our Culture, Part 2 Preaching the Gospel, Part 3 Doing Justice [MP3]
Speaker:  Tim Keller
Source:  Reform & Resurge Conference 2006
Description:  Keller discusses the role of the church in culture, the importance of cities to the church, preaching against idolatry as a means of exalting Jesus in the Gospel, and the biblical importance of doing justice as a means to a more comprehensive embodiment of Jesus and his Gospel in our culture and the world.
Other Media:  Article (PDF)

Labels: audio, church, churchplanting, culture, evangelism, favorites, Grace, heart, idolatry, mercy and justice, ministry, preaching and teaching, the city

Title:  Part 1 Gospel Realization, Part 2 Gospel Communication, Part 3 Gospel Incarnation [MP3]
Speaker:  Tim Keller
Source:  The Evangelist's Conference
Description:  A masterful explanation of the implications of the story of Jonah to our evangelistic methods. But more than applicable to evangelism, this series of sermons will challenge your personal response to Jesus and the idols in your life.

Labels: audio, evangelism, favorites, Grace, idolatry, jonah

Title:  Following Jesus, Not... (A Look at Some Things Christians Substitute for Jesus) [MP3]
Speaker:  Bruxy Cavey
Event:  Xenos Summer Institute 2005
Source:  Xenos Summer Institute
Description:  Do you substitute anything for Jesus? Do you think it is possible to worship a church? ...a doctrinal statement? ...even... the Bible, rather than Jesus? Whoa! Don't fall asleep during this one!

Labels: audio, favorites, heart, idolatry

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