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. Union with Christ and Sanctification: By Rick Phillips – Phillips says: “The Bible conceives of union with Christ in terms of a marriage between a bride and her groom, in which both justification and sanctification play essential roles. In our weddings, the bride comes to her husband dressed in the gleaming white of the bridal gown, just as the believer comes to Christ in the spotless radiance of his imputed righteousness, received through faith alone.”

2. Well To Start With, Your Last Theologian Was A Idiot: By Fred Sanders – Sanders notes: “Theologians and pastors, whether in person or in print, ought to bear this in mind when explaining doctrine. Explain sympathetically what previous teachers or traditions were trying to do (hint: they were usually attempting to construe Scripture, so even if they ended up with some wrong answers you can always start there).”

3. Exporting Love: By J.A. Medders – Medders says: “The chief export of a local church should be love. Churches do many things, but the main thing we are to express to God, to one another, and to the world is supernatural love—because God is love. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.”

4. Cultural Disintegration and the Revival of a Moral Imagination: By Joe Rigney – Rigney says: “The centrality of faithfulness in little cannot be overstated. Too often, my concern for the advancement of the gospel in the world turns into an attempt to coordinate heavenly troop movements, to treat the culture war like it’s a game of Risk and I’m perched on a balcony on one of Saturn’s moons.”

5. A Fine Line: By Aimee Byrd – Byrd notes: “My dad isn’t much of a fisherman, but he has his one fishing joke that I’ve heard him say more than once or twice: There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore looking like an idiot. Today I’m thinking of this same principle as it applies to sitting under the preached Word.”

Matt Manry is the Assistant Pastor 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.