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. Preaching Christ Only as Frodo: Reflections on Christ-Centered Preaching: By Michael Kruger – Dr. Kruger notes: “Thus, Christ-centered preaching cannot be restricted to just preaching the priestly office of Christ as is so often done in pulpits today.  If we are going to preach Christ, let’s preach all of him.”

2. The Missing Message in Today’s Churches: By Tullian Tchividjian – Tchividjian says: “As someone who loves the church, I am saddened by the perception of Christianity as a vehicle of moral control and good behavior, rather than a haven for the discouraged and dying. It is high time for the church to remind our broken and burned out world that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is a one-way declaration that because Jesus was strong for you, you’re free to be weak; because Jesus won for you, you’re free to lose; because Jesus succeeded for you, you’re free to fail.”

3. A Friend of Sinners and No Friend of Sin: By Kevin DeYoung – DeYoung notes: “No one in the history of the world has been more inclusive of the brokenhearted than Jesus. And no one has been more intolerant of the impenitent. A friend of sinners and no friend of sin.”

4. Hijacking Back Your Brain from Porn: By John Piper – Piper says: “Moreover the spiritual powers of his word and Spirit have the right to conscript physiological forces into their service. And in the end, God can hijack back the very paths of pornography and transpose the scintillations of those very paths into the ecstasies of knowing Christ.”

5. What Is Worship?: By Matt Mason – Mason provides some great definitions on worship. This is definitely worth reading.

Matt Manry is the Director of Discipleship 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. He blogs regularly at gospelglory.net.