“Since I wrote Her Hand in Marriage, I have heard more than one courtship horror story. And more than once I have consequently said that the courtship model means that we have six idiots involved instead of two.” (Douglas Wilson, 5 Paths to the Love of Your Life, p. 59).
by Stephen Rodgers
I can get away with that quote because there’s a lot of good material below dealing with both pre-marital and marriage…see for yourself if you don’t believe me. Besides…Austin Duncan was the one who originally quoted it approvingly…blame him. (Speaking tangentially from Austin now…what the heck happened to the SC Media page? It’s practically unusable now…fortunately, the GCC page is still alright).
Alright… we’ve got a ton of material for you today, so we better get started. And when I say a “ton,” I really mean a “metric ton”…because it’s heavier.
- First off, Ligonier ministries has been putting out quality material for a while now, but lately they’ve made huge strides in making it more available and exposed. For example, they now have a page that collects all their teaching series, and another that collects all their conferences. And if you want proof regarding that “quality material” I referenced, check out the new additions to RefNet and the latest edition of Tabletalk.
- Speaking of sermons…Monergism.com also just finished putting together an MP3 archive that includes at least one sermon for every chapter in the Bible.
- Since I alluded to some resources for both pre-maritial and marriage in my introduction, so here they are: Desiring God has recently released both “Preparing for Marriage” and “This Momentary Marriage” as free ebooks. Enjoy!
- And since we’re on the subject of free resources…you’ll want to know that Amazon is giving away a dramatized audio version of the ESV New Testament for a limited time, christianaudio.com’s free resource for this month is How Should Christian’s Vote? by Tony Evans, and Logos’ free resource for this month is The Christian Doctrine of Prayer by James Hastings. And since we’re referring to Logos resources, you might want to know that they’re doing a promotional program where some other resources have been made free for a limited time as well.
- I’m not much of a “sports guy” or a fan of sports in general. That being said, I’m a huge fan of Thomas Lake, and I’m thrilled that a few other folks around the Christian ‘net are taking notice of his work.
- Since the collegians are back with us once again, I thought this would be a good time to point out this excellent article from JP Moreland’s blog on how to have a worthwhile education.
- Anyone who’s followed John Piper’s ministry for any length of time knows that he has tried to write a Christian biography a year for several years now. Well, Crossway is now bundling some of those together in book form, and Justin Taylor was kind enough to draw attention to the original books/talks (which are online for free at the DG resource library), as well as some lectures on church history by Michael Haykin.
- Anyone who’s followed John MacArthur’s ministry for any length of time knows he’s rather indifferent to political issues. However he recently gave a pair of sermons dealing with the issues of abortion and homosexuality that are particularly relevant given the political issues of our time. When asked why he was suddenly getting “political,” his response was that emphatically that Romans 1 is not politics…it’s theology.
Whew! That was a lot! Hopefully you’ll comb through those, and we’ll see you Sunday!
Pro Rege