Around The Web-January 30, 2015

Why The Prosperity Gospel Is The Worst Pyramid Scheme Ever Nicholas McDonald

Pastors, Please Stop the “Fifty Shades” Sermon-Series by David Norman

Prayer That Starts With God by Daniel Darling

Desiring God is offering 24 free e-books for you to download

Growth In Grace Advances Knowledge of Sin by Ethan Smith

Kevin DeYoung writes about a book called Deviant Calvinism

Apparently Hollywood likes to reboot movies that were made either in the 1980's or a decade ago. Here is a trailer to the rebooted Fantastic Four coming later this year.

Around The Web-October 25, 2013

Mark Driscoll writes an open letter to John MacArthur inviting him to Seattle

Reformation Creeds & Catechisms Now Available on ESVBible.org

Josh Blount reviews Love Into Light: The Gospel, The Homosexual, and the Church

Stuff Christians Should Stop Doing by Jarrid Wilson

Desiring God gives us 15 quotes from Jefferson Bethke's book, Jesus > Religion

Where Did All These Calvinists Come From? by Matt Smethrust

Around The Web-April 26, 2013

Desiring God has a new website that features daily devotions from John Piper

Autopsy of a Deceased Church: 11 Things I Learned by Thom Rainer

Same-Sex Marriage as a Civil Right — Are Wrongs Rights? by Albert Mohler

9 Things You Should Know About Planned Parenthood by Joe Carter

Holy vs. Holier Than Thou by Jared C Wilson

Lust Battles, Facebook Fasts, Twitter Goals, and “Humble Brags”

Tony Reinke:

Over the last two weeks on the Ask Pastor John podcast we talked a lot about social media, about goals for Twitter and fasting from Facebook. Pastor John also addressed creativity in communication, and the meaning and importance of Easter. We talked about the value of Bible commentaries written by women, a practical suggestion for battling lust, and how our works exceed the works of Jesus.

What follows is a list of episodes, along with quotes pulled from each recording. Click on the titles to listen.

Read the rest here.

Messages from the 9 Marks & Desiring God Conferences

9 Marks and Desiring God had conferences going on in the same weekend which for many people they can either attend one of the other. Thankfully, those conferences are available online for all to listen:


Thabiti Anyabwile's blog has all six messages from the 9 Marks conference at Southeastern Seminary.


The Desiring God National Conference had a series of messages on sanctification