2011 Desiring God Conference sessions online

You can now access full audio and video from the recent Desiring God Conference, The Powerful Life of the Praying Pastor.

• Joel Beeke — Cultivating Private Prayer as a Pastor

• Paul Miller — Helping Your People Discover the Praying Life

• Francis Chan — Prayer as a Way of Walking in Love, A Personal Journey

• John Piper — He Kissed the Rose and Felt the Thorn: The Living and Dying in the Morning of Life

• Joel Beeke — Leading Family Worship

• Jerry Rankin — Unreached Peoples and the Power of Prayer

• Speaker Panel — Miller, Beeke, Chan, Rankin, and Piper

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Driscoll and Harris probe Francis Chan on his new “calling”

In this interesting interview, Mark Driscoll and Joshua Harris probe Francis Chan on his decision to leave his church because he thinks God has called him into a different kind of ministry. I’d be curious to get your reactions to the discussion that ensues. What do you think about the concerns that Driscoll and Harris raise, and what to you think about Chan’s responses?

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Flotsam and jetsam (6/2)

• Matt Edwards has begun a 9-part review of Douglas Campbell’s The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul. This significant (i.e. long) work has received considerable attention lately for its argument that the traditional understanding of justification is wrong and that Romans 1-4 is actually Paul’s summary of false teaching that he then refutes in Romans 5ff. Beverly Gaventa has a good shorter review here (HT Euangelion).
• In keeping with our recent discussion of Hunter’s To Change the World, here’s a post from InternetMonk on why he is abstaining from the culture wars.
• This month’s free audio book from Christianaudio.com is Francis Chan’s Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit.
• The lectures from last week’s NEXT conference are now available, including lectures by most of the usual Sovereign Grace crew: Joshua Harris, Mark Dever, Kevin DeYoung, C.J. Mahaney, D.A. Carson, and Jeff Purswell. (HT Justin Taylor)
• Allen Yeh offers some thoughts on the Edinburgh 2010 Conference that begins today in honor of the 1910 World Missionary Conference, providing an interesting summary of some key differences between the two conferences.
• And, apparently James Cameron is among our best hopes for fixing the oil spill in the Gulf. That can’t be good.