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Title:  John Newton: The Tough Roots of His Habitual Tenderness [MP3]
Speaker:  John Piper
Source:  Desiring God Resource Library (Biographies)
Description:  This time Piper recounts the life and ways of another of my spiritual heroes, John Newton. Once a debauched slave trader, God transformed Newton into a balanced man of God by His grace: tender, yet tough. In this sermon, you'll find a few reasons why I love quoting John Newton.
"It seems to me that we are always falling off the horse on one side or the other in this matter of being tough and tender—wimping out on truth when we ought to be lion-hearted, or wrangling with anger when we ought to be weeping. I know it's a risk to take up this topic and John Newton in a setting like this, where some of you need a good (tender!) kick in the pants to be more courageous, and others of you confuse courage with what William Cowper called 'a furious and abusive zeal.' Oh how rare are the pastors [or, read: 'Christians'] who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel."
"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, favorites, Grace, growth, leadership, mercy and justice, ministry, preaching and teaching, racial harmony, suffering and sacrifice, testimony

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

(Copy the source podcast link into iTunes or another podcast player to add it to the rest of your podcasts, or you can simply download the recordings here. This is not an ongoing podcast. There are no additional recordings.)
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:  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:  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:  Preaching and Teaching Jesus from Scripture [MP3]
Speaker:  Mark Driscoll
Source:  Mars Hill Church Media Library
Description:  "A message originally given to Acts 29 pastors, Pastor Mark Driscoll offers ten cautions and encouragements for preachers, that they may effectively fulfill their call to proclaim the gospel clearly."

Labels: audio, Grace, leadership, ministry, preaching and teaching