Here is a great post from Kirk Miller Blog.  It is absolutly a Biblical need to have a  Biblical undersrtanding of how later revelation is built on previous revelation.   I am amaized at how many Christians have a flat view of the Bible that allows for no organic expansion of the meaning of a text due to fuller and more complete revelation.   This is what the concept and doctrine of “Progressive Revelation” is all about.  Read below and be blessed to learn how we should read the Scriptures better and more accurately.   The Old Testament (OT) anticipates Christ and

Enjoy 27 Free John Piper Kindle Books from DesiringGod.org To download files, click through the links below to Desiring God’s website and click on the “mobi” option on the right. A Tribute to My Father and Other Writings The Marks of a Spiritual Leader Take Care How You Listen: Three Sermons by John Piper on Receiving the Word Still Not Professionals: Ten Pleas for Today’s Pastors Sanctification in the Everyday Preparing for Marriage: Help for Christian Couples Love to the Uttermost: Devotional Readings for Holy Week A Holy Ambition: To Preach Where Christ Has Not Been Named Good News of Great

The goal of this post to honor a man who has inspired and encouraged many—and pointed to some great books to grow their faith and faithfulness in ministry. This post lists Mark Dever’s recommended books on ministry, church history, theology, apologetics, ecclesiology, evangelism, missions, theology, biography, and more. Scroll to the bottom for helpful audio/video resources […] The post Mark Dever’s Recommended Books on Ministry, Church History, & Theology appeared first on Cross-Points eBooks and Resources. Read on »

I love to reach about Christians who make resolutions to following and grow in their committment to Christ.  Many of us know that Jonathan Edwards made many resolutions that he kept because we are all live by the resolutions we are constantly making.  You can read about Jonathan Edwards and his resolutions here, here, and here.    You can also read more about the process of making resolutions (promises to yourself) here, here, here, and here.  I wanted to find out principally what people today do that keep and follow through on their commitments and resolutions to themselves and others.  Here

I know that at any given time and at at ever moment everybody is seeking something.  For me I want that something to be God.  Because God’s Word (the Bible) tells us that Jesus Christ is God, the Son and reveals God, the Father as the exact image of him (Colossians 1), I desire ever year to read what God has revealed about himself in the only book that reveals what is totally true and trustworthy about who God is and what he has and is doing in this world –  And That Book is that Bible – a book

Here is great motivation to read the Bible with the right goal in mind: “…to think God’s thoughts after him, to love what he loves, to cherish what he cherishes, to hate what he hates.  It is to shae the whole mind and heart.” — D.A. Carson  

by Jeff Robinson I vividly recall two conversations with pastors shortly after I surrendered to pastoral ministry in the late-1990s. The conversations were pivotal because in them I was exposed to two divergent approaches to ministry, and the Lord used them to convince me that I must saturate my mind with Scripture. In one conversation I asked a longtime pastor how many times he’d read the Bible in its entirety from Genesis to Revelation. “Never, but I hope to someday,” he replied. I was stunned. I thought, “Then how do you know what you believe?” Soon after I encountered another longtime shepherd of

Merry Christmas from the Glenn, Ann, Jonathan, & Andrew Leatherman “All the Christmas presents in the world are worth nothing without the presence of Christ.” “If we could condense all the truths of Christmas into only three words, these would be the words: ‘God with us.’ We tend to focus our attention at Christmas on the infancy of Christ. The greater truth of the holiday is His deity. More astonishing than a baby in the manger is the truth that this promised baby is the omnipotent Creator of the heavens and the earth!”