The Reality of Evil
Welcome to the New Year! Our hearts go out this year to those who lost loved ones in the recent Connecticut massacre. Perhaps you’ve suffered yourself at the hands of great evil and are asking, “Where next?” Matt and Shaun offer hope and realistic answers to the problem that no amount of New Year’s resolutions can conquer.
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Links:
Loss of the Innocents (NYT), Ross Douthat
4 Wrong Answers to the Question “Why Me?”, Tim Keller
Suffering and the Sovereignty of God, John Piper
Suffering
A little late this month due to Hurricane Sandy, but right on topic, namely suffering. Natural disasters aren’t the only cause of suffering, though. There is physical suffering, relational suffering, and even suffering for the truth. The Apostle Paul calls Christians to “follow him in suffering”. What does he mean? How can we do that? Join us this month as we tackle a topic easier to talk about than to live, and so one in which we desperately need God’s grace.
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Links:
The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, Jeremiah Burroughs
Learning to Be Happy (Modern English version of Burroughs)
Contentment, A.W. Pink
Interview with Milton Vincent
We believe the Gospel. But do we live it? With others? Sometimes, as our guest this month suggests, we can be most irritable with our neighbor when we are trying to live the Christian life in our own strength. The Gospel, on the other hand, offers a marvelous freedom to actually enjoy serving God! This is a month not to miss.
Join Matt and Shaun as they talk with Milton Vincent, pastor of Cornerstone Fellowship Bible Church and author of A Gospel Primer.
Interview with Michael Ross
Matt and Shaun are joined by Michael Ross, pastor of Christ Covenant Church in Matthews, NC and author of Preaching for Revitalization.
On Struggling Churches, Part 4
This month, Matt and Shaun talk about some of the work Matt is doing to promote revitalization in the PCA.
Introduction to the Podcast:
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The Kingdom Priority of Revitalization (Originally preached at North City Church, Poway, CA):
On Struggling Churches, Part 3
In which Matt and Shaun continue to discuss the recovery of struggling churches through the ordinary means of grace.
Books we mentioned:
The American Church in Crisis
Transformational Church
On Struggling Churches, Part 2
In which Matt and Shaun continue to discuss the recovery of struggling churches through the ordinary means of grace.
(We apologize for the sound glitch which has Matt talking in the background as well as in the foreground. We find if you pretend there are people milling about behind us, it is moderately tolerable to take.)
On Struggling Churches, Part 1
What do you do when your church has lost its first love? What do you do when no one evangelizes any more? Where can hope be found for struggling churches? Tune in as Matt and Shaun answer all this and more.
Parenting the Ordinary Means, Part 6
This month, Matt and Shaun take you from birth to baptism to the Lord’s Supper (and back).
Parenting the Ordinary Means, Part 5
Continuing to examine how we get God’s works into our kids’ hearts, Matt and Shaun ask the practical question, “How do I teach my child to pray?”
Parenting the Ordinary Means, Part 4
This month Matt and Shaun consider how it is we lay a foundation for prayer in the lives of our children.
Parenting the Ordinary Means, Part 3
This month Matt and Shaun are joined again by Pastor David Milligan as they ruminate over how parenting differs for first and second generation Christians.
Parenting the Ordinary Means, Part 2
This month Matt and Shaun consider how to get the Word of God into the children of God — and whether or not Youth Ministry can play a role in that.
Ordinary Means 