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The Shaming of the Strong

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41r6GqsjqIL._SX304_BO1,204,203,200_What happens if you are valueless in the eyes of the world? Does this mean you have no value at all? And if you cannot even achieve the proper formation of the body in the womb, does this mean you are not even a person? “She was an unexpected treasure. She appeared at first to be the loss of hope and the disruption of all my plans, but through her God came close to me again, wild and beautiful, good and gracious, strangely familiar but infinitely exciting. I touched His presence as I carried Cerian.”

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March 9, 2016by Frontline Resources
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How (Not) To Be Secular

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51MC80cCciL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_How (Not) to Be Secular is what Jamie Smith calls “your hitchhiker’s guide to the present” — it is both a reading guide to Charles Taylor’s monumental work A Secular Age and philosophical guidance on how we might learn to live in our times.

Taylor’s landmark book A Secular Age (2007) provides a monumental, incisive analysis of what it means to live in the post-Christian present — a pluralist world of competing beliefs and growing unbelief. Jamie Smith’s book is a compact field guide to Taylor’s insightful study of the secular, making that very significant but daunting work accessible to a wide array of readers.

Even more, though, Smith’s How (Not) to Be Secular is a practical philosophical guidebook, a kind of how-to manual on how to live in our secular age. It ultimately offers us an adventure in self-understanding and maps out a way to get our bearings in today’s secular culture, no matter who “we” are — whether believers or skeptics, devout or doubting, self-assured or puzzled and confused. This is a book for any thinking person to chew on.

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March 9, 2016by Frontline Resources
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Justification

Blogs:

  • Justification by Faith: The Remedy for Paralyzed Sinners, Fallen Saints, and Provincial Christians by John Piper
  • The Doctrine of Justification by Sam Storms
  • Why God Is Not An Abomination To Himself by John Piper
  • The Defining Doctrine of the Reformation
  • N.T. Wright and the New Perspective on Paul

Audio:

  • Doctrine of Justification (Part 1) by Wayne Grudem — http://archive.scottsdalebible.com/assets/audio/christian-essentials/20080302WGrudem.mp3 Download Now
  • Doctrine of Justification (Part 2) by Wayne Grudem —http://archive.scottsdalebible.com/assets/audio/christian-essentials/20080309WGrudem.mp3 Download Now
  • Faith and the Imputation of Righteousness by John Piperhttp://resources.frontlinechurch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Faith-and-the-Imputation-of-Righteousness.mp3 Download Now
  • Justified by Faith by Tim Kellerhttp://resources.frontlinechurch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Justified_by_Faith-Tim-Keller.mp3 Download Now
  • Did Jesus Preach Paul’s Gospel of Justification? by John Piperhttp://resources.frontlinechurch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Did-Jesus-Preach-Pauls-Gospel-of-Justification-by-John-Piper.mp3 Download Now
  • How Can I Be Right With God? by Alistair Begghttp://resources.frontlinechurch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/How-Can-I-be-Right-With-God.mp3 Download Now

Video:

  •  John Piper on Justification
  • Justification and Sanctification: What’s The Problem?
  • Justified by Matt Chandler

 Books:

  • Justification Reconsidered
  • Redemption Accomplished and Applied
March 9, 2016by Tanner Ball
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Conversion

Blogs:

  • Faith & Repentance by Sam Storms
  • The Beauty of Conversion by Jared Wilson
  • What Is Conversion?

Audio:

  • Doctrine of Conversion (Faith & Repentance) by Wayne Grudemhttp://archive.scottsdalebible.com/assets/audio/christian-essentials/20080217WGrudem.mp3 Download Now
  • Converted by the Spirit by Tim Kellerhttp://resources.frontlinechurch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Converted_By_the_Spirit-Tim-Keller.mp3 Download Now

Video:

  • David Platt on Conversion
  • Thabiti Anyabwile on Conversion
  • Mark Dever on Conversion
  • Matt Chandler on Conversion

Files:

  • Thomas Hooker and the Doctrine of Conversion by Ian Murray (PDF)

Books:

  • The Gospel Call & True Conversion
  • The Puritans on Conversion

 

March 9, 2016by Tanner Ball
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Regeneration

Blogs:

  • Regeneration and the Sovereignty of God by Sam Storms
  • The Value of Knowing How God Saved You by John Piper
  • Remember Regeneration by Dane Ortlund
  • Does Regeneration Necessarily Precede Conversion? by Thomas Schreiner

Audio:

  • What Happens In The New Birth by John Piperhttp://resources.frontlinechurch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/What-Happens-in-the-New-Birth-by-John-Piper.mp3 Download Now
  • Born Again: Who Thought This Up? by D.A. Carsonhttp://resources.frontlinechurch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Born-Again-Who-Thought-This-Up.mp3 Download Now
  • The Doctrine of Regeneration by Wayne Grudem —http://archive.scottsdalebible.com/assets/audio/christian-essentials/20080210WGrudem.mp3 Download Now

Video:

  • Regeneration: Man’s Responsibility or God’s? by John Piper

     

Files:

  • Regeneration: What Does It Mean To Be Born Again? by Wayne Grudem

Books:

  • Finally Alive

 

March 9, 2016by Tanner Ball
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Books

Church in the Making

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41DCUx51nJL._SX324_BO1,204,203,200_Nearly eighty percent of all new churches fail, leaving countless discouraged church planters wondering why. Ben Arment answers their question with Church in the Making by identifying and expanding on three God ordained conditions that make for a successful church plant even before the doors open:

Good Ground – just as Jesus based his ministry on the openness of people’s hearts, we must gauge the spiritual receptivity of our community before planting a church. If the people are not yet open to the Gospel, the first step is to cultivate their hearts.

Rolling Rocks – momentum is also key to the success of new churches. If God truly builds his church, then our job is not to start from scratch, but rather to identify where he is already bringing people, funds, and other resources together for his purposes.

Deep Roots – wherever there’s a church in the making, God provides a group of leaders who can align people and resources in order to achieve and sustain the church’s mission. Lone planters have a much less hope of succeeding, let alone surviving.

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Why Gender Matters

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514orXg+3YL._SX322_BO1,204,203,200_Are boys and girls really that different? Twenty years ago, doctors and researchers didn’t think so. Back then, most experts believed that differences in how girls and boys behave are mainly due to differences in how they were treated by their parents, teachers, and friends.

It’s hard to cling to that belief today. An avalanche of research over the past twenty years has shown that sex differences are more significant and profound than anybody guessed. Sex differences are real, biologically programmed, and important to how children are raised, disciplined, and educated.

In Why Gender Matters, psychologist and family physician Dr. Leonard Sax leads parents through the mystifying world of gender differences by explaining the biologically different ways in which children think, feel, and act. He addresses a host of issues, including discipline, learning, risk taking, aggression, sex, and drugs, and shows how boys and girls react in predictable ways to different situations.

For example, girls are born with more sensitive hearing than boys, and those differences increase as kids grow up. So when a grown man speaks to a girl in what he thinks is a normal voice, she may hear it as yelling. Conversely, boys who appear to be inattentive in class may just be sitting too far away to hear the teacher—especially if the teacher is female.

Likewise, negative emotions are seated in an ancient structure of the brain called the amygdala. Girls develop an early connection between this area and the cerebral cortex, enabling them to talk about their feelings. In boys these links develop later. So if you ask a troubled adolescent boy to tell you what his feelings are, he often literally cannot say.

Dr. Sax offers fresh approaches to disciplining children, as well as gender-specific ways to help girls and boys avoid drugs and early sexual activity. He wants parents to understand and work with hardwired differences in children, but he also encourages them to push beyond gender-based stereotypes.

A leading proponent of single-sex education, Dr. Sax points out specific instances where keeping boys and girls separate in the classroom has yielded striking educational, social, and interpersonal benefits. Despite the view of many educators and experts on child-rearing that sex differences should be ignored or overcome, parents and teachers would do better to recognize, understand, and make use of the biological differences that make a girl a girl, and a boy a boy.

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Holiness

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41TUGru605L._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_-2J.C. Ryle was the first Anglican bishop of Liverpool and a well read Christian writer. Ryle’s most famous book is Holiness which is considered an inspiration for good Christian living. All the elders of Frontline read this work in 2015 and it was great for the soul of all involved.

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The Pastor

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51ltEQZuJVL._SX329_BO1,204,203,200_In The Pastor, author Eugene Peterson, translator of the multimillion-selling The Message, tells the story of how he started Christ Our King Presbyterian Church in Bel Air, Maryland and his gradual discovery of what it really means to be a pastor. Steering away from abstractions, Peterson challenges conventional wisdom regarding church marketing, mega pastors, and the church’s too-cozy relationship to American glitz and consumerism to present a simple, faith-based description of what being a minister means today. In the end, Peterson discovers that being a pastor boils down to “paying attention and calling attention to ‘what is going on now’ between men and women, with each other and with God.”

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The Pastor’s Justification

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41qi8pG296L._SX328_BO1,204,203,200_Ministry can be brutal. As leaders, we face discouragement, frustration, and exhaustion—and many times we face it alone. Helping us to refocus our gaze on the gospel, pastor Jared Wilson offers here practical insights, real-life anecdotes, and in-your-face truth related to the ups and downs of pastoral ministry. Honest yet hopeful, this creative fusion of biblical exposition and personal confession will help pastors weather the storms of ministry by rooting their identity in Christ.

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