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. Love the Church More Than Its Health: By Jonathan Leeman– Leeman says: “Yet there’s a temptation I have noticed that you and I are susceptible to: we can love our vision of what a church should be more than we love the people who compose it. We can be like the unmarried man who loves the idea of a wife, but who marries a real woman and finds it harder to love her than the idea of her.”

2. The Shame of the Cross: By Lee Gatiss – Gatiss notes: “But that is to miss something vitally important.  Seeing through the cross to what’s behind it – focusing just on the mechanics of atonement – can be a way of avoiding looking directly at it, in all its weakness, ugliness, powerlessness, and silliness.”

3. How I Almost Lost the Bible: By Gregory Alan Thornbury – Thornbury says: “Nearly one decade after my dark night of the soul, Paul House, C. Ben Mitchell, Richard Bailey, and I wrote Henry at his retirement home in Watertown, Wisconsin, to express our collective appreciation for and indebtedness to his work.”

4. Faith in the Real Jesus: Understanding Him as Prophet, Priest, and King: By Graeme Goldsworthy – Goldsworthy says: “Mature faith is faith that continually grows in understanding and in conformity to the Christ who is revealed in the whole Bible. This faith transcends belief in the Christ of a few favorite texts and rejects any sentimental adherence to the pale shadow of the one whose prophetic, priestly, and kingly roles are revealed in all of Scripture.”

5. 4 Ways to Make Multiplication Less Painful: By Michael Kelley – Kelley says: “Even in being proactive in these ways and others, multiplication is still going to be a bit painful. But through careful planning and preparation, that pain can be swallowed up in the vision of benefit for the kingdom that comes through the multiplication process.”

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.