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. A Short Defense of Sola Scriptura: By Stephen Wolfe– Wolfe says: “Just as the list of correspondence was not needed to both receive and codify the Civil War correspondence, neither did the Church need a table of contents to receive a text as scripture and compile the canon. So, again, sola scriptura is not a doctrine that says ‘all doctrine must come from the sixty-six book canon.'”

2. When Your Twenties Are Darker Than You Expected: By Paul Maxwell – Maxwell notes: “There are (at least) five feelings that overwhelm and disillusion the wandering young saints, day after day.”

3. An Invitation to Expectation: By Brandon Smith – Smith says: “Our identity as the body of Christ isn’t just a spiritual nametag based on some invisible, untouchable realities; we are bound together in this flesh-and-blood life because of those spiritual realities. Christ is still coming back. We live in awe-inducing expectation of that. And like our brothers and sisters in Acts 2, this should make our often humdrum faith hum like the engines of an F-16 ready for flight.”

4. 5 Ways to Develop Gospel Habits: By Greg Gibson – Gibson says: “Can you say that you are truly satisfied with the way you live, or the habits you have formed? If we’re honest, most of us can’t answer that question with a positively. We often live from crisis to crisis, from reaction to reaction, or from bad habit to bad habit.”

5. Eight Reasons Ministry Leaders Lose Their Drive: By Thom Rainer – Rainer says: “Of course, I heard other reasons from leaders who said that had lost their leadership drive. These eight, however, were the predominant reasons shared with me. Some of the reasons can be blamed on the church. Others are the fault of the leader. The good news is that I heard numerous stories how leaders overcame these obstacles to regain their drive.”

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.