![]() There’s a purpose to that: without God’s grace and the empowerment of the Holy Spirit, relying on your own efforts, you are a failure as a parent. I thought I was a fairly decent parent until I sat under Paul Tripp’s teaching, but I get the feeling he can make pretty much any parent feel like a failure. They made “doctrinally sound smart” look beautiful. Lovable eggheads both, they showcased the fact that Believers don’t have to gullibly check their intellects at the door of Christianity and that academicians don’t have to be godless liberals. White and Kruger presented a joint session on the canon of Scripture. My dear friend, Darlene (left), with her hero of Biblical Counseling and women’s Bible study, Martha Peace.ĭrs. Now it’s my pleasure to commend her to you, having personally heard her speak. I’ve recommended Martha before, based largely on others recommending her to me. ![]() It was a blessing to see her breakout sessions full of younger women who want that kind of biblical teaching and example from a Titus 2 woman. We need far more mature sisters like that to look up to. She looks and acts like your average, older, wiser sister at church. She doesn’t have the perfect figure or the trendiest clothes. She’s older, mature, and sedate, yet still fun to be around. Unlike so many of today’s “divangelistas” Martha is not a young, silly, hyper Barbie doll. He is passionate about preaching and the Scriptures to such an extent you begin to sense that, if he could, he’d grab you by the shoulders and physically stuff you with Scripture and a proper understanding of it. Some essentials from home: king cake and crawfish :0) Justin’s a Louisiana expat in the Northwest, so I brought him What a joy to see Christians getting informed so they can protect themselves and their churches! I have recommended Justin here and have linked to several of his resources. ![]() Justin taught two breakout sessions on the New Apostolic Reformation, and I am overjoyed to report to you that there was standing room only (and there were many standing) for both sessions. Calm, kind, graceful, knowledgeable, and with a quick wit, Justin cares deeply about sound doctrine and calling out false teachers because he has a heart for people to be saved and know the truth of the gospel. If you’ve ever wondered what biblical meekness looks like, you need to get to know Justin Peters. David reminded me of older, small church pastors I have known who are so good at loving and caring for their sheep. Due to degenerative muscular atrophy, David uses a wheelchair and had to memorize his entire sermon including the lengthy Scripture passages he cited, which was very encouraging to me for my own Scripture memory. Kindness and grace personified, David has a way about him of speaking hard truths in gentleness. ![]() Tim’s is one of the handful of blogs I follow regularly. He not only serves his church well, but is intent on learning from his church in order to serve it better. Tim is someone who has figured out his ministry context and is flourishing in it. I’ve previously recommended Josh here and have had the pleasure of linking to many of his materials. He is genuine and humble, and his greatest concern is that His people know and serve God through their local church. Josh BuiceĪ superb example to other pastors, Josh has the heart of a shepherd and a servant. ![]() “ I’m not really a resource,” I said, “I point people to others who are good resources.” So, in keeping with pointing you to good resources, I’d like to share a little about some of the pastors and teachers I sat under last weekend – not so much about what they taught, but more about how God uniquely crafted and fit each of them into the Body to minister to their local churches, and the church at large, in their own special way. I remarked to a friend that it felt strange to me when readers approached me during the conference to thank me for being a good resource for them. Some of the wonderful brothers and sisters I got to hear from: A week ago today, I was drinking from the fire hose of good teaching and good fellowship at the 2018 G3 Conference: Knowing God – A Biblical Understanding of Discipleship. I not only had the blessing of being able to hear many of my heroes in the faith speak for the first time in person, but I also had the joy of meeting numerous social media friends – finally! – face to face. ![]()
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