Sovereign Grace Audio Now Free

The folks at Sovereign Grace have now made all their sermon audio available for FREE.

This means, among other things, that the Together for the Gospel sermons are now free. Everyone in ministry or training for ministry should listen to these sermons.

All the sermons can be searched by speaker, event, topic, etc. Enjoy!

David, Reigning and Ruined

My sermons on 2 Samuel 4-13 (with the exception of ch. 7, with which we had technical difficulties) have been made available online here.

May the Lord prosper his word!

SALVIATI, Cecchino del
Bathsheba Goes to King David
1552-54
Fresco
Palazzo Sacchetti, Rome

New Dean’s Class Website

The web site for Dr. Russ Moore’s Sunday School class has received a major overhaul, and it is now up and running. They’ve included quite a few features that, if you have a moment, you might want to check out, from recommended resources to a video of Dr. Moore explaining the gospel to all the audio of Dr. Moore’s teaching.

This is a creative and stimulating site, and I hope that many churches will take a cue from this clean, innovative approach to getting the word out. May this site bring glory to King Jesus by advancing his Kingdom!

Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation

Last night I spoke on Thomas Cranmer at the John Bunyan Theology and Church History Conference hosted by Grace Reformed Baptist Church in Kingwood, Texas.

Virtually everything I said was informed by Diarmaid MacCulloch’s biography of Cranmer, with a little help from Foxe’s Book of Martyrs.

In God’s providence, yesterday was Cranmer’s 518th birthday. He was born July 2, 1489. If you’d like to hear the talk, you can visit the sermon audio page where it’s posted.

Enjoy!

The Fall of Saul and the Rise of David

My sermons on 1 Samuel 31 through 2 Samuel 3, preached June 3, 10, and 17, are available here.

In the past we have had some trouble with the audio, but a new sound system and the faithful labors of the saints have fixed the problem.

New Blog from Juan Sanchez

I mentioned meeting new friends at the Southern Baptist Convention last week, and one of them, whom I met only briefly, was Juan Sanchez, who gives his own thoughts on the SBC meeting here. Juan is the pastor of High Pointe Baptist Church in Austin, TX. High Pointe has a fascinating history, is a Southern Baptist Church, holds to the New Hampshire confession, and is led by a plurality of elders.

If I were in Austin, I would check out HPBC, but for those of us not in Austin, we can listen to or watch sermons here, and there’s even a sermon from Greg Wills on the History of the SBC. In the service that I watched, Pastor Juan began by bringing all the kids in the service up to the front, then he started catechizing them! Teaching the parents what to do with their kids and plugging the Catechism for Boys and Girls. Good stuff.

Keep an eye on Juan’s blog.

Image Conference This Weekend

If you’re in the DFW area, perhaps you’ll be interested in this conference taking place this weekend.

I’ll be leading a breakout session on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood on Friday night, and I’m the unlisted preacher for the Saturday morning general worship session.

May the Lord use this conference mightily for his glory!

All Hail King Jesus: Revelation 19:11-21

On October 4, 2005, I preached on Revelation 19:11-21. I just found the sermon online here.

May the Lord prosper his word!

Romania, Paris, Copper Mountain

If you check this blog regularly, you’ll have noticed that there were no posts through the middle of March. That’s because I was in Romania, then Paris, then Colorado.

My friend Gabriel Ianculovici has posted a video of me preaching at a church plant in Romania with his brother, Chris, translating my English into Romanian. This encouraging church plant has seen 120 people come to faith since the church was planted in the early 1990’s. I also taught at the Baptist Theological Seminary in Bucharest and was heartily encouraged by the brothers there.

Romania is a country that was long abused by communism, but the Lord preserved his people there. We should pray for the Word of God to continue to prosper in Romania.

After Romania, I visited some folks in Paris who are seeking to reach North Africans in that post-Christian place. On the subway in Paris, I listened to this interview with Thabiti Anyabwile on Islam and Muslims. If you know as little about Islam and Muslims as I do, you should avail yourself of this great conversation.

Upon my return to the States, I was blessed by some people obeying 1 Timothy 6:17-19. I won’t steal their reward by revealing their identity, but they blessed my sweet wife and me with an all expense paid ski vacation in Copper Mountain, Colorado. The Lord’s mercy and love through these folks is indescribable.

Calvin to a Fellow Pastor, and some good sermons on 1 Timothy

When John Calvin was exiled from Geneva in 1538, he wrote back to another Pastor still preaching in Geneva:

Above all, do you seriously consider that you are engaged in the discharge of an office, which, as it excels every other, so it is the most dangerous of all, if you do apply yourself with the utmost diligence and intensity to the duties belonging to it. If you care for my approval, I would forewarn you of this one thing, that I require no more of you than that you devote yourself sincerely and faithfully to the Lord.

From Lester De Koster’s Light for the City: Calvin’s Preaching, Source of Life and Liberty, 14.

1 Timothy has much to say about the church and its pastors, and I commend to you the sermons that Travis Cardwell has preached on Paul’s first letter to Timothy. You can find them here.