Gospel Centered Resources

Books and Articles

Jonathan Dodson,  Fight Clubs: Gospel-Centered Discipleship

“How Missional is Your Church”

Tim Keller, “The Centrality of the Gospel”

“The Gospel: Key to Change”

The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

D.A. Carson, “The Biblical Gospel”

Jerry Bridges, “Gospel-Driven Sanctification”

Graeme Goldsworthy, According to Plan: The Unfolding Revelation of God in the Bible

C.J. Mahaney, Living the Cross Centered Life: Keeping the Gospel the Main Thing

Bryan Chapell, Christ-Centered Worship: Letting the Gospel Shape Our Practice

The Gospel-Driven Life: Being Good News People in a Bad News World

Mark Dever and Paul Alexander, The Deliberate Church: Building Your Ministry on the Gospel

Bob Thune, The Gospel Centered Life

Sally Lloyd-Jones, The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name

Tim Chester and Steve Timmis, Total Church: A Radical Reshaping around Gospel and Community

Tim Chester, You Can Change: God’s Transforming Power for Our Sinful Behaviour and Negative Emotions

Tim Chester, The Ordinary Hero: Living the Cross and the Resurrection

Christopher J.H. Wright, The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative

John Piper, Let the Nations Be Glad: The Supremacy of God in Missions

Blogs and Ministries

http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/ The Gospel Coalition

http://www.t4g.org/ Together for the Gospel

http://www.9marks.org/ The 9 Marks

http://www.togetherforadoption.org/ Together for Adoption

http://www.desiringgod.org/ Desiring God

http://sovereigngraceministries.com/ Sovereign Grace Ministries

http://www.acts29network.org/ Acts 29

http://theresurgence.com/ The Resurgence

http://www.thecrowdedhouse.org/ The Crowded House

http://timchester.wordpress.com/ Tim Chester

http://creationproject.wordpress.com/ Jonathan Dodson

http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/ Justin Taylor

http://www.worshipmatters.com/ Bob Kauflin

http://www.challies.com/ Tim Challies

Week #15 – December 10th

Last week of regular class. You turned in your teaching spreadsheet, and I gave you a copy of one I made up a while ago. Hope you keep re-working that one.

This week we talked about success, discouragement and other things you’ll face in ministry. We also hit key questions again, so it was more interactive.

Here’s the powerpoint with my notes.

Here’s the audio:

I distributed a few good resources:

• David Powlison’s articles on Breaking Pornography Addiction part 1 and part 2.
• “Mapping your Private World” by Gordon MacDonald on Journaling.
• Jonathan Dodson’s Fight Club booklet, and here’s a blog to expand the concepts.

Week #14 – December 3rd

I only gave out one handout this week, and have no published notes because we took time to hit your list of youth ministry questions. We wanted to see that our theology of youth ministry and  philosophy of ministry actually make a difference when we talk about people who seem unwilling to change, etc.

Here’s the audio: part1 and part2

Here’s the handout of Counsel Questions from David Powlison and Paul David Tripp.