Recommendations for sermons, podcasts, books, etc.
(Mostly these are things I share on Instagram and wanted a place to share the links. Most of these are recommended by friends.) You can find all books linked on my Amazon page:
july 2021
Ligonier ministries: R.C. Sproul’s Awakening to the Christian Faith
“…if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.” (Ecclesiastes 11:3)
The Truth Shall Set You Free John 8, John MacArthur sermon
Chasing the Wind Ecclesiastes sermons, Alistair Begg
Gospel Coalition article: “My Life as a Christian Under a Communist Regime: Reflections on the 100th Birthday of the Chinese Communist Party” by ZHANG SAN
may-June 2021
CRITICAL RACE THEORY resources
CRT podcasts, playlist on Spotify
Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism's Looming Catastrophe
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Discrimination and Disparities
Cosmic Justice
Blackout
Here is a link to the book Critical Race Theory: An Introduction
My instagram post
The Harm of Seeker Friendly Churches - Paul Washer
IT IS OBSCENE: A True Reflection in three parts - Chimamanda
C.S. Lewis, God in the dock (a series of theological essays) - available on Audible
April 2021
You Have to Read This Letter, Bari Weiss / Andrew Gutmann
Critical Race Theory, Just thinking podcast
Sanctification, Christ is the Cure
We Need Both Rules and Relationship with God 5 Questions about the Ten Commandments, Jen Wilkin
Voddie Bauchum, Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism's Looming Catastrophe
Alisa Childers, Biblical Judgment in a “Don’t Judge Me” World article
Mesa Hills church - Easter sermon The Tale of Two Roots https://youtu.be/zom3UF83Xpg
(Sermons starts at 1:44) by Howard Wilson
What the Cross means to God - John MacArthur
I listen to this last year as well - but it’s such a good reminder.
“I know that may surprise you a little bit because we have literally been drowned in a sea of emphasis on the fact that Christ died for you, that God loves you, God loves you. We hear it all the time. God loves you so much He gave His Son to die for you. He wants to redeem you. He wants to save you. He wants to forgive your sins. He wants to take you to heaven. All those things are true, but those are secondary purposes for the cross. While the cross included us, the cross really was for God. It was for God, primarily. Christ died for us, yes, but primarily Christ died for God." … “Salvation is for God.”
Matthew Henry’s commentary on Matthew 27:51
Verse (Matthew 27:51): And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split.
“We have boldness to enter into the holiest, by that new and living way which he has consecrated for us through the veil. He died, to bring us to God, and, in order thereunto, to rend that veil of guilt and wrath which interposed between us and him, to take away the cherubim and flaming sword, and to open the way to the tree of life.”
Online link or physical set to purchase
Megyn Kelly and Jordan Peterson: Jordan Peterson on Radical Honesty, Raising Kids, and Getting Your House in Order | Ep. 84
Allie Stuckey Episode 397 | Debunking Heretical Hot Takes on Jesus & Easter
March 15-31, 2021
Relatable podcast: What’s a Woman? Culture’s confused; Christianity is clear (Ep 387)
Kindled podcast: Feminine, Not Feminist (interview with Anneliese Louise)
The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
QUOTE: “Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church disciple, communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.”
The Megyn Kelly show: 2 podcast episodes/ interviews
Thomas Chatterton: Racial identity and other topics
Bari Weiss: Media and other topics
Weekly recommendations: week of March 1, 2021
PODCAST: Journey women: “What is God like?” with Jen Wilkin
Excerpt: There are 2 categories of the attributes of God: Communicable attributes (things that can be true about us) and Incommunicable attributes (will never be true about us and when we try we commit idolatry)
SERMON: The Magnificat sermon: Luke 1:46-55, Dr. Raymond Morehouse, Emmaus Church
Excerpt: “We find ourselves here at the intersection of history, divinity, and mystery.”
PODCASTS: 2 podcasts on emotions:
Christ is the Cure: “Emotions and the Christian life”
Sheologians: “Beautiful emotions”
QUOTE of the week:
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth.” — ERNEST HEMINGWAY
VERSE to meditate on:
Sweet friendships refresh the soul and awaken our hearts with joy, for good friends are like the anointing oil that yields the fragrant incense of God’s presence. — Proverbs 27:9
Week of 2/22:
BOOK: Cynical Theories
Excerpt: “Postmodernism has, depending upon your view, either become or given rise to one of the least tolerant and most authoritarian ideologies that the world has had to deal with since the widespread decline of communism and the collapses of white supremacy and colonialism.”