Matt is flat out one of the best young preachers in America and his sermons are available for free at www.thevillagechurch.net. His church has ballooned from just over a hundred to roughly 3,000 people in the past few years. He's a great leader from the great nation of Texas and a powerful reformed Baptist Bible-thumper masculine dude whom I have grown to love and respect very much. He has not yet been picked up by the national media because he has come out of nowhere like a hurricane but I assure you that his stock is rising and in the years to come you will be hearing a great deal about what God is doing in his church and through his preaching and leadership.
Video from Session 11 is our last session from the Reform & Resurge Conference May 2006. Watch Mark Driscoll, pastor of Mars Hill Church, president of Acts 29 Network and founder of Resurgence, as he preaches on, "Death by Love: Reflections on the Cross." Revisiting who Jesus and the cross is, deserves more attention today than most people would like to think. Over time Christians arguably could begin losing sight of the cross, what it meant and what it means for us today. Mark Driscoll brings us back to the fundamental aspects of the cross and the practical implications of a proper view of the cross in this day.
Audio from Session 11 is our last session from the Reform & Resurge Conference May 2006. Listen to Mark Driscoll, pastor of Mars Hill Church, president of Acts 29 Network and founder of Resurgence, as he preaches on, "Death by Love: Reflections on the Cross." Revisiting who Jesus and the cross is, deserves more attention today than most people would like to think. Over time Christians arguably could begin losing sight of the cross, what it meant and what it means for us today. Mark Driscoll brings us back to the fundamental aspects of the cross and the practical implications of a proper view of the cross in this day.
Eric Mason is finishing his doctorate focusing on reaching hip-hop generations and cultures. He's planting Epiphany Fellowship in urban Philly and is a rare combination of spooky-smart theologian and ultra-hip urban manly man. His wife Yvette is a gem too and they have become dear friends of mine. Helping them plant is Duce a.k.a. "The Ambassador" who was recently nominated for a Grammy in rap and may be the only decent rapper with a theology degree (he has a ThM). These guys are the real deal and are doing missional church outside of the typical white suburban formula of lighting candles and finger painting while griping about megachurches. Eric was featured in our recent iTunes vodcast, and a couple of Duce's raps will be available on the site in a few weeks; including a cool bit about the Puritans and Spurgeon, which should effectively confuse everyone.
Click here to check out Eric's first blog post on the Resurgence.
In session 8 with our keynote speaker Dr. Tim Keller, senior pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York, New York and founder of Redeemer Church Planting Center, preaches on, "Doing Justice" his last session of three from the Reform & Resurge Conference May 2006. The audio that you are about to listen to from Dr. Keller will challenge your view of the comprehensive work of the gospel. Four questions are fleshed out in this session. First, what is justice according to the Bible? Second, what is doing justice according to the Bible? Thirdly, who should be doing justice? Lastly, how can you be one of the people that does justice? These questions and a walk through the book of Proverbs will develop a biblically faithful approach to justice.
In session 8 with our keynote speaker Dr. Tim Keller, senior pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York, New York and founder of Redeemer Church Planting Center, preaches on, "Doing Justice" his last session of three from the Reform & Resurge Conference May 2006. The video that you are about to watch from Dr. Keller will challenge your view of the comprehensive work of the gospel. Four questions are fleshed out in this session. First, what is justice according to the Bible? Second, what is doing justice according to the Bible? Thirdly, who should be doing justice? Lastly, how can you be one of the people that does justice? These questions and a walk through the book of Proverbs will develop a biblically faithful approach to justice.
Dr. Tim Keller, senior pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York, New York and founder of Redeemer Church Planting Center, speaks on, "Preaching the Gospel" in his second of three sessions (session 7) from the Reform & Resurge Conference May 2006. Watch this video from Dr. Keller as he gives some insightful comments on preaching the gospel today. What is discovered is that the older evangelicals know how to preach the gospel of sovereign grace in salvation and the younger evangelicals preach the gospel of salvation as a means for a new heavens and new earth. Dr. Keller notes that there are not many movements today that combine these two ways to preach the gospel as both the building of God's Kingdom through people being redeemed by the atoning work of Jesus Christ on the cross.
Some of you may have noticed that TheResurgence.com has now added Vodcasts to our repertoire. The videos that we have available are the actual video sessions from the Reform & Resurge Conference May 2006. You can subscribe to the vodcasts here. (The ability to stream the video directly from the site will be forthcoming.) I would like to publicly thank the video production group of Mars Hill Church for their hard work. Our goal with this website is to equip believers with sound theology as they preach the gospel in their culture.
Dr. Tim Keller, senior pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York, New York and founder of Redeemer Church Planting Center, speaks on, "Preaching the Gospel" in his second of three sessions (session 7) from the Reform & Resurge Conference May 2006. Listen now to this audio from Dr. Keller as he gives some insightful comments on preaching the gospel today. What is discovered is that the older evangelicals know how to preach the gospel of sovereign grace in salvation and the younger evangelicals preach the gospel of salvation as a means for a new heavens and new earth. Dr. Keller notes that there are not many movements today that combine these two ways to preach the gospel as both the building of God's Kingdom through people being redeemed by the atoning work of Jesus Christ on the cross.
Our keynote speaker of the Reform & Resurge Conference May 2006 was Dr. Tim Keller, senior pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York, New York and founder of Redeemer Church Planting Center. Please watch the session 6 video, the first of three talks by Dr. Keller on, "Being the Church in our Culture." In this session Dr. Keller challenges believers to understand the division in church as it relates to the culture that we are in today. Walk along with Tim Keller in the six facets of how to be a church that reaches the culture. First, more Christians living long-term in cities; second, with a better understanding of the gospel; third, living as dynamic counter-cultures in the city; fourth, integrating their faith and their work; fifth, radically committed to the good of the city as a whole; and sixth, contextualizing the gospel message.
