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. Gandalf, Job, and the Indignant Love of God: Derek Rishmawy – Rishmawy says, “Easily one of the most bracing passages in Scripture, God’s words to Job are exhilarating in their majestically aggressive grandeur. After 36 chapters of divine silence in the face of Job’s comforters and Job’s passionate self-defense—indeed, his prosecution of God’s justice and character—the Holy One opens his mouth and reduces Job to stunned, repentant silence.”

2. May I Help You Discern Your Calling?: John Piper – Piper notes, “God does not intend for all of his people to take on the specialized calling of learning a new language and culture, and of embedding themselves in an unreached people group to make disciples and plant churches.”

3. Jesus Welcomed REAL Sinners. Do We?: Scott Sauls – Sauls says, “Consider the Apostle Paul. He was not above humbling himself. In Romans 7 he gives us a window into his personal struggle with the sin of coveting—a sin nobody would see unless he told them—and the way that the gospel gave him hope in the face of his coveting. In 1 Timothy Paul identifies himself as the chief of all sinners. If we intend to reflect Jesus in our ministries and our messages, we need to get over our love for reputation and image.”

4. Brand Reformation: A Conversation about Martin Luther with Historian Andrew Pettegree: Albert Mohler – Check out this wonderful discussion between Mohler and Pettegree!

5. The Freedom to Be Happy (For Someone Else): Michael Kelley – Kelley notes, “The gospel frees us from this compulsion. The reason the gospel frees us in this sense is because in the gospel, Paul writes earlier in Romans 12, we find a renewal of our minds. Practically, that means our minds are renewed in the way we view other people.”

Matt Manry is the Assistant Pastor at Life Bible Church in Canton, Georgia. He writes at matthewwmanry.com.