Here’s a short interview with Tullian Tchividjian on dealing with suffering honestly within the church. He hits some very awesome points, such as:

• because Jesus won for me, I’m free to lose
• because Jesus was strong for me, I’m free to be weak
• because Jesus succeeded for me, I’m free to fail

Here’s great one liner from the interview that really really says a lot – “My identity is so anchored in who Christ was for me, and not what I need to become, that it actually takes the burden off of my shoulders to pretend that I’m something that I’m not.”

From  Covenant Seminary’s Youtube Channel
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While I don’t endorse all of the speakers at Passion 2013, I do like me some John Piper (and Francis Chan). In his first speaking engagement since retiring from his senior pastor position at Bethlehem Baptist, John brought a great message last night at Passion 2013 from Hebrews 10, 11, and 12. He preached on a “pattern of power to embrace suffering in the path of love for the cause of liberation”. His three main points from the text for this pattern are:

• Deep soul satisfaction in the promise of a Christ filled future
• Freedom from self-protecting fear
• Fruit of fearless love no matter the cost

sermonize.us

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Why your counsel must be more than situational and relational fixes. It must be a result of looking at a person’s story through the lens of the biblical story.

from www.ccef.org

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How do we make sense out of all that we hear in counseling?

How do we understand what the Bible says to the drama of a particular moment in a person’s life?

Because every Christian is called to counsel we should seek more on how to make the Bible real to people while at the same time make the people real to us.

from www.ccef.org

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Mark Dever urges the new pastor to preach, pray, personally disciple, and be patient.

from 9marks.org

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Adam Powers writes – “Classic Tim Keller. Relaxed, laid back feel throughout the whole thing but yet so powerful and challenging as to God’s call to Christians as pilgrims and aliens in this world, living in enemy occupied territory. There is no better sermon I know of on Jeremiah 29, and it is so nice to finally hear the realistic megaphone of Biblical reality held within Jeremiah 29:11. Not some feel good sermon like Joel Osteen or the like, but a triumphant call to redeem the cities we do life in, for the glory of God – amen!”

from redeemer.com

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Adam Powers writes – “There is no better sermon which displays the complete God-centered, Christian-Hedonist, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated thought of John Piper better than this sermon.  He not only describes the completeness of his thought, but also goes into what may be the mistakes in this thought as well. Very humble and powerful at the same time, and since Piper is such a massive figure in our time and thus the history of the Church, this sermon will be remembered for years to come.”

from desiringgod.org

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