If you’re interested in purchasing the Vintage Jesus materials for your own reference, check out www.vintagejesus.net/vintagejesus/.

To watch/download free audio or video of all 12 Vintage Jesus teachings as Pastor Mark taught them to his congregation at Mars Hill Church, go to www.marshillchurch.org/media/vintagejesus.

You can also download it here.

In The Enemy Within: Straight Talk About the Power and Defeat of Sin, Kris Lundgaard draws on two works by the aforementioned Puritan in writing this modern-English distillation of Owen’s Indwelling Sin and The Mortification of Sin – two of his most renowned works. Lundgaard offers insight, encouragement, and hope for overcoming the enemy within. This book is available in the RBC bookstore or online.

Cornelius Plantinga Jr.’s Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin is a timely book that revives in modern terms the ancient awareness of sin that has slipped in recent decades. Plantinga uses clear language and draws upon myriad books, films and other cultural resources to drive home our need to simultanously hate sin and love the grace of Christ. Available at the RBC bookstore or here.

In Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate, Jerry Bridges’ asserts that we have become so preoccupied with the “major” sins of our society, Christians have ceased to heed the dangers of more subtle sins in our lives. We the Church must not act as though sin were only something out “in the world” and so tolerate jealousy, anger, pride and ungodliness within our own hearts. Bridges writes as one in the trenches and points his readers again and again to the profound mercy of the grace of Jesus. Available in the RBC bookstore or get it here.

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Again, my personal encouragement to you is this: if God has lead you to change how or where you invest your time and money, make a plan and get accountable. Remember – guilt and greed are short-term motivators.  It’s easy to watch a series like this and leave with good intentions, but good intentions with no plan and no accountability is not going to get you very far.

Think of it this way – if your boss at work gave you a specific assignment to do, would you approach it without a plan? Just get to it …however, whenever? Probably not. How much more, then, when our Father prompts us to action, should we deliberately engage with Him in what He has asked us to do?

If you are interested in purchasing your own copy of How to Be Rich, you can do so at the North Point Resources Site. The DVD and mp3 audio is available there. For anyone interested in using this to lead a small group study, the DVD actually has a built-in small group curriculum.

Together for the Gospel (T4G) began as a friendship between four pastors. These friends differed on a number of theological issues, like baptism and the charismatic gifts. But they were committed to standing together for the main thing—the gospel of Jesus Christ.

T4G is convinced that the gospel of Jesus Christ has been misrepresented, misunderstood, and marginalized in many churches and among those who proclaim the name of Christ. The goal of these friendships, conferences, and networks is therefore to reaffirm this central doctrine of the Christian faith and to encourage local churches to do the same.

This year’s conference finished up last week. Wish I could have attended, but the audio is already posted online. You should definitely check it out.

If you don’t have time to wade through them all, I particularly recommend Driscoll’s Putting Pastors in Their Place, Mahaney’s Pastoral Character & Loving People, Piper’s Why I Trust the Scriptures, and Chandler’s Preaching the Gospel from the Center of the Evangelical World.

Check out the audio/video here.

Comment: How would you define “love”? Which of the 5 ways of talking about the love of God, as discussed in the teaching, do you particularly identify with? Which is difficult for you to understand or appreciate?

UPDATE: The audio from this teaching is now online. Listen | Download