“The sermon ends with what has been implicit throughout it—the demand for radical submission to the exclusive lordship of Jesus, who fulfills the Law and the Prophets and warns the disobedient that the alternative to total obedience, true righteousness, and life in the kingdom is rebellion, self-centeredness, and eternal damnation.”

From the Expositor’s Bible Commentary

Gaebelein, F. E., Carson, D. A., Wessel, W. W., & Liefeld, W. L. (1984). The Expositor’s Bible Commentary, Volume 8: Matthew, Mark, Luke (194). Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House.

A photo gallery.

(via Boston.com)

ESV.org

and Crossway.org

Hopefully the new look will help keep people coming to these two incredible resources.

(via @CrosswayBooks)

“In a remote island village of 1,200 people in Indonesia, a man hooks a notebook computer to a satellite connection and sends a Bible translation in his native Yawa language to a consultant sitting in her home office in Arlington, Texas.

In a Nigerian city of a nearly a million people, a couple working with translation missionaries posts baby pictures on their Facebookpage and talk by Skype to the wife’s parents back in Deltona.

To the nearly 6,000 translators, linguists and educators who work for the Orlando-based Wycliffe Bible Translators in 90 countries, social media and new communications technology has compressed the time it takes to translate a Bible from 12 years on average to seven, said Bob Creson, CEO of Wycliffe, the world’s largest Bible-translation organization.”

Read the rest of the article here.

(via Orlando Sentinel via WBT)

What Is Reformation Day All About? by Robert Rothwell | Ligonier Ministries Blog

SMS [Shine} by David Crowder

(via The VWM)

Vicious election campaign spots.

(via First Things)

“Oral telling of Bible stories is at the vanguard of a new push to evangelize previously unreached people groups”

(via @Wycliffe_USA)

Celebrating Church Planting

Converge Worldwide

(via @edstetzer)

Being Missional May Kill Your Church

“Too many of our churches are built on personalities, buildings, and programs instead of Jesus and his mission. We are addicted to our church subcultures, numbers, and personal agendas. If we are honest, we all want our churches to be successful. But what if being successful meant focusing on a few instead of the multitude? What if being successful meant losing a lot of our church crowd who don’t really want to follow Jesus or live on mission anyway?”

(via The Resurgence)

Living a New Kind of American Dream

A pastor’s passion for the poor fuels a river of generosity from his church.

What’s a pastor supposed to do when the darkness of poverty haunts his thoughts?

Read more here: 

(via @NationsBeGlad)

Homeless Has a Name: Kerry, Sabrina and Keifer

“I once heard a story about a homeless man on Hollywood Blvd who really thought he was invisible. But one day a kid handed the man a Christian pamphlet. The homeless guy was shocked and amazed, “what! You can see me? How can you see me? I’m invisible!”

It isn’t hard to comprehend this man’s slow spiral into invisibility. Once on the street, people started to walk past him, ignoring him as if he didn’t exist… much like they do a piece of trash on the sidewalk. It’s not that people are bad, but if we make eye contact, or engage in conversation, then we have to admit they exist and that we might have a basic human need to care. But it’s so much easier to simply close our eyes and shield our hearts to their existence…

The purpose of this vlog is to make the invisible visible. I hope these people and their stories connect with you and don’t let go. I hope their conversations with me will start a conversation in your circle of friends.”

(via invisible people)

Tim Keller on urban contextualization:

“The gospel will reach urban areas only by churches that are contextualized for an urban environment and through citywide gospel movements.”

Seeing the size of Africa by placing other countries inside it.

Puts things in perspective, doesn’t it?

(via twentytwo words)

“Just in case you were unaware: October 31st is an important date for Protestants, and it has nothing to do with Halloween.”

Read More here.

(via @pastordave619)

What is One Trillion?

(via Challies)

Francis Chan on “wierd”, “normal” and “Biblical”

(via ChurchCrunch)

What is a Biblical view of politics? 

(via @prpbooks)