The Creatives vs. The Academics
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Some Christian Online Teaching Helps I Have Found Useful
July 26, 2011 Leave a comment
I hope you will indulge me and allow me a break from my note uploading from the CSST Summer school on ‘The Doctrine of God’ and allow me to share some selected Christian helps that have been of benefit for me online and on iTunes.
The local church is unique and it can be easy to get wrapped up in all these big names and big ministries many of which are indeed great and useful. We must never try to find some sort of online church and neglect meeting with our own local church meetings and sitting under the preaching we have from there. You can’t replace real one to one, face to face fellowship with a few online sermons and some big famous preacher interviewing another big famous preacher. However to supplement all that I have found these particularly useful:
Warning!!!! Don’t make the mistake I make, downloading, [trying to] read & listen to everything – it’s not helpful, trust me! Just pick a couple/few, note the rest down & go back later.
Websites
www.desiringgod.org – John Piper’s ministry – including 50 of his books as PDF files
www.ligonier.org- the ministry of RC Sproul
the ministry of Kevin Williams a [good] street preacher and pastor based in Manchester (if you are Mancunian you will have seen him on Market street quite a bit!) Check out his testimony right here
www.heartcrymissionary.com – the ministry of Paul Washer and ministry associates
ebooks – some great e-books from Heartcry ^^
carm.org – great for apologetics (defence of the faith) and answering all those difficult questions that both you and your non-christian friends always ask!
www.cbmw.org – insightful stuff on biblical manhood and womanhood (not used this massively however)
marshill.com – the ministry website of Mark Driscoll from Seattle
Sermons – the teaching website of John MacArthur from California
main.asp – you pastor recommended someone? – This massive website has sermons from thousands of preachers and nearly half a million sermons.
Itunes – if you search for these, copy & paste them exactly as below for easy searching
Podcasts
Desiring God Sermons Audio
ESV Bible – English Standard Bible
I’ll be honest video Podcast
Paul Washer – SermonAudio.com
Renewing Your Mind with R.C. Sproul
Unbelievable?
Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology
World Challenge Audio Sermons – The ministry of Times Square Church, the church founded by the late David Wilkerson author of ‘The Cross and the Switchblade’
iTunes U
Reformed Theological Seminary in the US
Particular courses: ‘History of Christianity 1′ & ‘History of Christianity 2′
Other courses I have downloaded but not listened to yet and so cannot fully recommend:
‘Systematic Theology 1′ & ‘Preaching Christ in a Postmodern world’
YOUTUBE – this one is definitely in order of preference
Dr. Oakley1689 – great for apologetics/other faiths/emergent – this guy is a DON! His ministry website is - www.aomin.org
not your typical negro – you have to take some stuff with a pinch of salt, and not get obsessed but this guy points out some flaws in the Word of faith/hyper charismatic movement, remember to check ALL things with scripture.
My notes on the my time in Cambridge for the Theology summer school ‘The Doctrine of God’ will be back soon
P
Bible reading plans courtesy of ‘DesiringGod.com’
January 27, 2011 Leave a comment
Source: http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/2011-bible-reading-plans
Bible reading plan – Discipleship Journal – option 1
NavPress’s Discipleship Journal plan has been the most used at Bethlehem for years. There are four daily readings (the year starts with Genesis, Psalms, Matthew, and Acts), but it’s only 25 days each month—which leaves some margin for missing here and there when life gets busy.
For Shirkers and Slackers – option 2
If “margin for missing” is what you know you need, then this plan from Ransom Fellowship might be right for you. Maybe you’ve tried the other plans in the past and stalled out again and again. This plan assigns certain genres to certain days of the week and breaks biblical books up into sections you can read in one sitting—so without reading everyday, you can still make measurable headway. Pace yourself well and do some extra reading, and you might even finish long before 2011 is over.
The famous Robert Murray M’Cheyne Bible reading plan – option 3
This is the classic plan, designed by Robert Murray M’Cheyne (1813–1843), the well-remembered Scottish minister who died before his 30th birthday. The plan has readings for every day of the year and will take you once through the Old Testament and twice through the Psalms and the New Testament. (Don Carson’s daily devotionals called For the Love of God are based on the M’Cheyne plan.)
Like the Discipleship Journal plan, the ESV Study Bible plan has you reading in four places: 1) Psalms and wisdom lit, 2) Pentateuch and Israel’s history, 3) Chronicles and prophets, and 4) Gospels and epistles.
With a reading for each day of the year, this plan from Back to the Bible aims to take you through Scripture in chronological order.
This plan was produced by Treasuring Christ Church in Raleigh, NC, and has you read the Old Testament in the Hebrew order (see the front page of the plan to learn why).
Be blessed, keep praying, keep reading the Word!
Cory
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