Mark Dever, author of The Gospel and Personal Evangelism, will be speaking at the 2009 Desiring God Pastors Conference. The theme will be Commending Christ: The Pastor, the Church, and the Perishing.
Below Mark discusses the importance of creating a culture of evangelism:
Hear more about the 2009 DG Pastors Conference from Mark Dever and John Piper.
Lincoln’s 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation
Taken from the collection of Lincoln’s papers in the Library of America series, Vol. II, pp. 520-521.
The year that is drawing towards its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source [...]
Cathy Lynn Grossman of USA Today just posted an interesting article about how evangelicals are “adopting — and adapting” traditional Advent rituals. The piece, called “Evangelicals Adopting Advent,” features an interview with Crossway author Nancy Guthrie about Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus, her new book of Advent reflections. Grossman writes:
Bible teacher and writer Nancy Guthrie has [...]
Does it ever seem surprising to you that God made the Israelites wander in the wilderness for forty years because they grumbled? My kids may have spent thirty minutes in their rooms for griping, but forty years? What a severe discipline! Ouch, it seems harsh.
God clearly is not pleased with grumbling. It doesn’t make Him [...]
Tim Challies, author of The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment, gives ten tips for reading more and reading better:
Read
Read Widely
Read Deliberately
Read Interactively
Read with Discernment
Read Heavy Books
Read Light Books
Read New Books
Read Old Books
Read What Your Heroes Read
Visit Challies.com for Tim’s explanation on these ten tips.
On November 19, Dr. Bruce Ware was named president of the Evangelical Theological Society at the annual meeting in Providence, Rhode Island. According to the CBMW (Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood) blog:
Ware was elected vice president of ETS by a unanimous vote of fellow scholars at the 58th annual ETS meeting in Washington, D.C. [...]
Earlier this year, Crossway released D. A. Carson’s Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor: The Life and Reflections of Tom Carson. In this book, Carson tells the largely unknown story of religious persecution in French Canada in the 1940’s and 50’s—persecution that ultimately set the stage for growth and revival in the 1970s.
Supplementing his father’s journals [...]
Many Crossway authors and staff members are attending the ETS meeting mentioned in the previous post. We always look forward to this annual opportunity to gather with and learn from evangelicalism’s best scholars, and we can’t help but thank God for the contributions that Crossway authors are making in this forum. [...]
If you missed Together for the Gospel (T4G) this year—or if you’d just like to experience it all again—be sure to tune in to Ligonier’s website in the coming weeks.
Starting today, Ligonier will be broadcasting the eight messages and six panel discussions on their website. Broadcasts will run through December 5.
If you aren’t familiar [...]
The 60th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) will be held this week at the Rhode Island Convention Center. ETS is a professional society of Biblical scholars, teachers, pastors, and others involved in evangelical scholarship in order to serve Christ and his church.
This year’s featured speaker at the Crossway Annual Lecture will be [...]
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