Credo’s Cache

Each week we will be highlighting important resources. Check back each Friday to see what we have dug up for you. From this week’s cache:

1. The Speech that Launched the Crusades: By Dan Doriani – Doriani notes: “The challenge is clear. We need to ask ourselves, ‘What cultural values do we baptize? Which of our culture’s universally accepted values are actually at odds with the character, word, and will of God?'”

2. Internet Hate and the Gospel: By Ryan Williams – Williams notes: “As I mentioned, I have been guilty of rock-throwing and criticizing from a distance. Gossip like this is something all of us can slip into, even if only in private conversation. It’s a lesson we all need to learn and an area where many of us need to repent.”

3. The Cool Pastor: An Oxymoron or Just a Regular Moron?: By Matthew Everhard – Everhard notes: ” The unbelieving world will always do ‘cool’ better than the Church. When the Church adopts coolness and relevance as its corporate values, it slavishly agrees to follow, lagging always one step behind the world.”

4. 20 Ways to Pray for the Seminaries: By Justin Taylor – Taylor says: “I recently heard Al Mohler, president of Southern Seminary, explain that he will often ask older supporters of the seminary whom they want pastoring their grandchildren some day. The answer, for good or for ill, is found in our seminaries. But I wonder how many of us ever stop to pray for them?”

5. Wholly Bible: Preaching Parables: By Steven Smith – Smith notes: “In the end this is what we are after—reanimating the parables of Christ so that they have the same effect on the listener that they had on the original listeners. Really this is what text-driven preaching is all about: re-presenting the idea that is imbedded in the text.”

Matt Manry is the Director of Discipleship at Life Bible Church in Canton, Georgia. He is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Religion at Reformed Theological Seminary and a Masters of Arts in Christian and Classical Studies from Knox Theological Seminary. He blogs regularly at gospelglory.net.