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. Jesus Did More to Save Us than Die: By Gavin Ortlund – Ortlund says: “We need a balanced focus on the broader narrative as well as the cross (or the cross and resurrection together) as the crucial turning point within that narrative. In other words, we need to explore other elements of Jesus’ saving work, but always in relation to the cross (or cross/empty tomb).”

2. An Evangelical Defense of Traditional Marriage: By Andrew Walker – Walker notes: “I eagerly await the young evangelical that finally convinces me that the Bible and human history are wrong on marriage and that justice requires that both Christianity and society bestow marriage on same-sex relationships.”

3. How To Criticize a Preacher: By David Murray – Murray says: “Well, I’m not going to tell you exactly what words to use. I’m simply going to give you ten questions to ask that I hope will produce the right words and the right way to say them should you ever have to offer criticism to a preacher.”

4. 10 Ways to Exercise Christlike Headship: By Owen Strachan – Strachan says: “Our culture may reject male headship; it may undermine men. None of that matters to you. None of it bogs you down. Whether trained by a godly dad from birth or newly learning about headship as a young believer, your face is set like a flint to pursue the glory of God as the Christlike head of a home. That’s your goal; that, like a distant trumpet summoning you to sacrificial leadership, is your call.”

5. 5 Thoughts on Confessing Sin to One Another: By Nick Batzig – Batzig says: “’Open Confession is good for the soul,’ or so the maxim goes. Perhaps it might also be said, ‘Open Confession is  good for your relationship with God and men.’ While Scripture supports both of these statements, there is something of a haze that lays across the surface of the meaning of such statements in Scripture as, ‘Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed’ (Jas. 5:16).”

Matt Manry is the Assistant Pastor 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.