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Unbreakable Missions

Missions as Means of Unfolding the Promise of God

A missions sermon
delivered @ BBTC
South Africa, 2010
by A.B. Seal

The Making of a Champion

 

Check out this excellent video testimony of several people on the Seattle Seahawks team.

Suffering Brings Seeing

Driscoll: Jesus Shoots the Wolves

I had the opportunity to be present when this message was delivered at a DG National Conference.  It is one of the most memorable and most powerful messages I have ever heard.  The entire message is available for free on audio and video.

Metaxas on the Church and the State

The Church's responsibility to the State

A Day in the Life of a MSP Recruit

This is a trailer for an upcoming documentary of the Michigan State Police Training Academy. This film crew has been filming the current MSP recruits since they began their five month training at the MSP Academy in December of 2010.

Death in His Grave

Death In His Grave (Performance Video) from john mark mcmillan on Vimeo.

Lyrics:

Though the Earth cried out for blood
Satisfied her hunger was
Her billows calmed on raging seas
for the souls on men she craved

Sun and moon from balcony
Turned their head in disbelief
Their precious Love would taste the sting
disfigured and disdained

On Friday a thief
On Sunday a King
Laid down in grief
But awoke with keys
Of Hell on that day
The first born of the slain
The Man Jesus Christ
Laid death in his grave

So three days in darkness slept
The Morning Sun of righteousness
But rose to shame the throes of death
And over turn his rule

Now daughters and the sons of men
Would pay not their dues again
The debt of blood they owed was rent
When the day rolled a new

On Friday a thief
On Sunday a King
Laid down in grief
But awoke holding keys
To Hell on that day
The first born of the slain
The Man Jesus Christ
Laid death in his grave

On Friday a thief
On Sunday a King
Laid down in grief
But awoke with keys
Of Hell on that day
The first born of the slain
The Man Jesus Christ
Laid death in his grave

He has cheated
Hell and seated
Us above the fall
In desperate places
He paid our wages
One time once and for all


HT:JT
  

Don't Waste Your Life Sentence

How He Loves: The Story Behind The Song

In case you didn't already know, John Mark McMillan wrote the song "How He Loves" which was made famous by the David Crowder Band. Here is the story behind that incredible song:

It's a Beautiful Day!

Was Jesus' message different than Paul's?

T4G 2010 -- Session 6 -- John Piper from Together for the Gospel (T4G) on Vimeo.

Abandon Kansas: Close Your Eyes

What a great line: "Close your eyes and then we'll start to see."

The Me Monster

Brian Regan makes a great and humorous point.
But don't miss the main point:
There is a Me Monster living inside of every one of us.

It is a peculiar thing that humans are so obsessively mindful of themselves.  How could we think so highly of ourselves especially when we consider that:

• We are only individuals on a planet full of about 6.5 billion other individuals
• We did not chose to be born
• We did not chose where we were born, nor into which family
• We did not chose to be born blessed with eyes and ears that work
• Every heart beat is a gift which we did not earn
• Every breath of fresh air is enjoyed by lungs which we did not make
• One day we will all die and dissolve into dust
• One day almost everything we cherish will also dissolve into dust

This list could go on and on.  I wonder what you might add to the list?

It all reminds me of an intensely humbling verse of Scripture:
"What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?"
- 1 Cor. 4:7b

Man Pool vs. God Pool

HT:DG

Fernando Ortega: Sing to Jesus

I first heard this song at the recent DG conference. I was so moved by it that I made a note to myself to post it here.

Suffering & Sanctification

"Joy should not be situational."
- Eric Mason

Eric Mason delivered this powerful message on the relationship between suffering and sanctification at the recent DG conference:

Driscoll in Haiti

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HT:DG

A Sweet & Bitter Providence