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Set Your Minds... (10/23)

by Marshall Walter on October 23, 2013

Why Did God Forbid One Tree in Eden? - Tony Reinke/John Piper (Desiring God): So the issue of the tree is this: Will we keep looking to God as the giver and lover and treasure of this garden so that all our eating is thanking and all our savoring is a savoring of God? Will we keep on experiencing every one of these tastes as a tasting of something like what God is, and in that sense a tasting of God? Will we keep on enjoying God in the enjoying of the trees?

How to Humbly Give and Receive Correction - Jon Bloom (Desiring God): Because we struggle so much with pride, correction can be difficult to give graciously and difficult to receive graciously. That’s one reason to be very thankful for Exodus 18. God is so kind to have Jethro and Moses give us a clinic on what humble correction looks like on both sides.

Three Surprising Ways to Grieve the Holy Spirit - Kevin DeYoung (University Reformed Church): Whether we are talking about holiness, the Bible, or Jesus Christ, let us never set the Spirit against the very thing he means to accomplish. We do not honor the Spirit by trying to diminish what he seeks to exalt. And we do not stay in his step by pushing others (or ourselves) in the direction of the very things that grieve him most.

Strange Fire Conference - Tim Challies (Grace Fellowship Church): The title here links to Tim Challies final reflections on the conference.  I've included links below to his summary blog posts on the individual sessions.  The actual conference website (including conference sessions recorded on video) can be viewed here.

Session 1: John MacArthur - Opening Keynote

Session 2: Joni Eareckson Tada - Testimony

Session 3: R.C. Sproul - Pentecost

Session 4: Steve Lawson - Church History

Session 5: Conrad Mbewe - The African Import of Charismatic Chaos

Session 6: John MacArthur - Test the Spirits

Session 7: Tom Pennington - A Case for Cessationism

Session 8: Steve Lawson - Scripture Alone

Session 9: Conrad Mbewe - Preachers or Witch Doctors

Session 10: John MacArthur - An Appeal to Continuationists

Tags: reinke, piper, bloom, deyoung, challies

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