In need of a Mini-Retreat?

Have you ever wanted to go to a great national conference, but can't find the time? or the money?

Some of the most memorable moments for me have been listening to the great speakers and teachers of our day and age. They have changed my faith and my understanding of walking out the Christian life.

Well, thanks to the Internet, now you can go and enjoy the best speakers from the comfort of your own home.

No travel! 

No hurry - listen as you can!

No cost!
Here are just a few of the great links out there! Many of these include audio and video for the main speakers and break-out seminars!

True Woman - Fort Worth 2010 featuring Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Crawford Lorritts, Kay Arthur, and Mary Kassian

True Woman - Chattanooga 2010 featuring Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Voddie Baucham, and Jennifer Rothschild

Desiring God National Conference 2010 featuring John Piper, Francis Chan, Tullian Tchividjian, and R.C. Sproul

In fact, here is the link for every single Desiring God conference (of any type) for the past 17 years right HERE.

Ready for a Mommy time out? 

Francis Chan Videos on Desiring God

Desiring God offers lots of incredible resources to grow and learn in your faith.

Check out this link for all of Francis Chan's talks given in association with Desiring God. (Click HERE)

Sermons offered include:
Think Hard, Stay Humble: The Life of the Mind and the Peril of Pride (Oct 2010)
Prayer as a Way of Walking in Love: A Personal Journey (Feb 2011)
Why We all Need the Gospel (Feb 2011)

Hope you have a fabulous weekend!

Lent Resource from John Piper

If you are looking for an activity to do as a family, check out this resource by John Piper for the Sundays in Lent called Lenten Lights devotionals .

If you're interested, here also is a peek into the Piper's house to see how they prepare for Easter with a post entitled Preparing for Holy Week.

Killing Sin

 " ... choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin...Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you. Your being dead with Christ virtually, your being quickened with him, will not excuse you from this work."

                                                                         From Mortification of Sin, by John Owen


Be killing sin

or

it will be killing you.

There is salvationary grace for sin that is once-and-for-all. 
  
And then there is the everyday life of conviction, repentance, and restoration. In pursuit of the kingdom on Earth, I seek to mortify the sin and exercise kingdom power over it. That is where the rubber meets the road. Where life starts to change.

If I really took my sin seriously, I would realize the weight of just one act against God. It's enough to separate me from God. And yet, all day long, I stray.

John Piper's recent seminar at Bethlehem College "I Act the Miracle" is profound and instructive on dealing with your daily sin and moving toward killing it.

Click HERE for the video (approx. 40 min).

His Will

John Piper is back from his sabbatical and is preaching in the book of John. His sermons are always solid. No cutesy stories, no cliches - just meat and conviction and power.

Here is his sermon from this week ....

Willing God's Will As a Way of Knowing Christ's Word

His text is from John 7:1-24.

Take a listen! (Sermon length about 45 min)

Getting to the Bottom of your Joy

Take a few minutes this weekend and listen to John Piper's sermon from the Passion Conference last week entitled "Getting to the Bottom of your Joy" (audio) and here is the video.

¹⁴For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; ¹⁵and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised." 2 Cor 5:14-15