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May 2008

VIDEO – Tope Koleoso Reports on the Dwell Conference – Mahaney, Driscoll, Keller, Stetzer, Patrick, Masoners

May 12, 2008

My dear friend and the leader of Jubilee Church recently went to New York to the Dwell Conference on building city churches. The conference had Mark Driscoll, Tim Keller,  C. J. Mahaney, Ed Stetzer, Darrin Patrick and Eric Mason as its speakers.  You can read more about the conference on the Acts 29 website, where [...]

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One Reason We Celebrate Mother’s Day

May 11, 2008

For some reason, in the UK we celebrate Mother’s Day in March. Actually, this morning I was surprised to be able to attend a church in the European city I am visiting at the moment. There they celebrated Mother’s Day, as well as Pentecost. The sermon was like a clear trumpet note for the type [...]

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Piper On C. S. Lewis – How Not To Be Bored By People

May 10, 2008

I just ran into a fascinating quote on the importance of people. If there was one man I remember who embodied this, it was Henry Tyler, who was my mentor. He made you feel like you were the most important person in the whole world when you were speaking to him. I had the privilege [...]

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PIPER FRIDAY – John Piper on Being Born Again

May 8, 2008

John 3:7“YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN” I have today decided I want to work through a series of sermons John Piper recently finished giving at his church. I would encourage you to join me. There can be nothing more important than to get ourselves clear about being born again, being regenerated. Are YOU sure that [...]

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INTERVIEW – Hugh Palmer

May 8, 2008

The following interview with Hugh Palmer took place at New Word Alive 2008. I have already published the audio version, which is available here. AdrianI’m here with Hugh Palmer. HughHello! AdrianSo, Hugh, can I just say first of all what a fantastic week this has been—to go from a standing start to . . . [...]

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Edwin Millington Warnock – Founder of a Gospel Dynasty

May 6, 2008

My grandfather, Edwin Warnock, was an evangelistic tent preacher. He was from Scotland, but came down to England, where he married a Londoner but lived in Suffolk. He had six children—five boys and one girl. Sadly, one boy died young. Each of the other boys married and had two boys. In my father’s and one [...]

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Tim Keller on the Effects of the Gospel

May 6, 2008

I found this great quote about what the gospel is meant to do to our opinions of ourselves from Tim Keller on “theocentricview“: “The Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This [...]

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Martyn Lloyd-Jones Monday – A Shortage of Joy

May 5, 2008

I want to share with you today a quote that I first put on this blog back in 2006. It is a quote which came towards the end of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ life. It helps explain why his monumental series of sermons on Romans, which is available in mp3 and book form, stops at Romans [...]

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Three Women Healed in Different Ways

May 3, 2008

I want to share three stories with you. The first happened right here at our home church. A woman who had previously had a melanoma removed was told, following a scan, that her cancer had returned, I believe in three places. I know this lady personally. We prayed. Following that, the doctors were unable to [...]

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PIPER FRIDAY – John Piper Issues a Call to Radical Christian Living

May 2, 2008

I only just managed to get the time to listen to John Piper’s Together for the Gospel conference message. As I discovered when I heard him in Wales, Piper is best experienced in the same room, but something of the anointing or unction came across, even in this recording. Piper’s passion is for his hearers [...]

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VIDEO – Top Ten Books for Christian Students (NWA08)

May 1, 2008

This video was shown at New Word Alive. It is very funny, but I do want to point out to the authors of these books that I had absolutely NOTHING to do with producing this video!

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In Christ’s Blood and Righteousness Alone

May 1, 2008

We need to be reminded again and again that our works are useless when it comes to impressing God. This was something that I was reminded of again at New Word Alive when Terry Virgo preached on grace, as well as in my preparation for a sermon I preached a few days before entitled Work, [...]

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