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Saturday, January 14, 2012

Saturday Blog-sweep

Does Jesus hate religion? and do also read this gracious response.

Driscoll thinks English preachers are cowards

A thought on the Iron Lady

The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer

13 ways to raise grateful kids

Why church planting and How to plant a Church (via Dash House)

A letter from Martin Luther on Spiritual Warfare

Descriptive vs prescriptive 

What the Elephant Room tells us about evangelicalism


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David Cooke
I am Associate Vicar @ Holy Trinity Richmond in London. In my pre-Church of England life I worked in marketing and did business stuff all over the place including a three year stint living in Russia. This is a Blog about all the things that I find that interest me and I think may bring others knowledge, hope, a new idea or some joy. A friend calls this blog my 'public filing cabinet' and I suppose he's right- it's where I file the bits and bobs I find, read, listen to and experience. I write too as it sometimes helps me work out my thoughts and to be honest I enjoy it. More often than not I just recommend. I try to share something every day though I don't always achieve this. If you like reading check out the 'Books in the rather slow making of a Jesus FoIlower' and 'David's Sermon Cloud' contains some of the talks that have encouraged and taught me. I hope something you find here blesses you.
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Tim Keller

  • The Centrality of the Gospel
  • Resources
  • Answering your questions
  • Keller and Ed Clowny Teaching on Preaching
  • The Reason for God
  • The Prodigal God
  • The Gospel in Life
  • Counterfeit Gods
  • Generous Justice
  • King's Cross
  • More resources
  • Redeemer
  • Sermons

First ports of call

  • My Church: Holy Trinity Richmond
  • What's it all about?
  • Alltop Christianity
  • Alltop News
  • Jonathan Edwards
  • Life Goals
  • Martin Lloyd-Jones
  • The Nines
  • Postsecret
  • 6 Reasons Pastors Should Blog

BEST READS OF THE YEARS

  • Best reads of 2011
  • Best reads of 2010
  • Best reads of 2009

Things you might like to watch

  • Don't waste your life
  • Rick Warren on Purpose
  • Epic Fail
  • I am second
  • Andy Hawthorne @ National Prayer Breakfast
  • Keller on The Quest
  • Justification
  • Powerful beyond measure
  • Absurdity
  • The Amish New Birth
  • Don't give up
  • A call to anguish
  • Cornel West on the Examined Life
  • 7 Miles
  • Treasuring Him
  • Elizabeth Gilbert on Creativity
  • Cornel West on Greatness
  • Cultivating wisdom
  • Robinson 'Do schools kill creativity?'
  • Platt on prayer

Resources

  • Church of England
  • Fresh expressions
  • Church Army
  • 24/7
  • Theology Network
  • Inner change
  • LICC
  • Oxford Centre for Church Growth
  • New Wine
  • Discovery Bible Studies
  • Street pastors
  • Soul Survivor
  • Tear Fund
  • Redeeming our Communities
  • RZIM
  • Eccelsia
  • Visual unit
  • St Paul's Theological Centre
  • Redeemer City to City
  • God pod
  • Desiring God
  • The resurgence
  • Pastors.com
  • Docstoc
  • Bible reflections
  • Shorter works
  • Expository
  • Quotes

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David's Sermon Cloud

  • The preaching series that changed my life
  • Great Christian Biographies
  • Guillebaud on Forgiveness
  • Kenny Borthwick Fathers and Sons
  • Bill Hybels on the Hope of the Church
  • Romans in 11 messages
  • Frank Viola Epic Jesus
  • A selection of good US preachers
  • Andy Stanley on Acts 15
  • Chan Why we all need the Gospel
  • MacDonald Change (Part 1)
  • MacDonald Change (Part 2)
  • Leaders : The call to endure
  • Driscoll Cost of Discipleship
  • Matt Chandler Biblical Authority (19 Sept 2010)
  • Chan: Prayer as walking on a journey of love
  • Death is not dying
  • 52 Key Piper Sermons
  • Piper Doing missions when dying is gain
  • Driscoll on Faith in your New Birth
  • Driscoll The Gethsemane Prayer
  • Francis Chan on Following Jesus
  • Francis Chan on Humility
  • HTB Leadership talks
  • Gumbel on Leadership (Listen to both)
  • Keller on How to change
  • Matt Chandler on Sheep
  • Piper Romans: The Greatest letter ever written
  • Piper on Running with the Witnesses
  • Piper on Sacrifice
  • Rick Warren on the Mind
  • Simon Ponsonby "Do you love me"
  • Tim Keller on the Prodigal God
  • Virgo on prayer
  • White on the Sacrificed Life

Blogs of People I don't know but what they write makes me think, challenges me or shares a resource

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    From the Bishop of Salisbury: an "open and robust conversation" with his clergy
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    An honest and extremely self-deprecating marriage proposal
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    3DM Workshop in Fort Wayne
    7 hours ago
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    Slum Dwellers
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  • Abraham Piper :: Desiring God
    How Safe We Are
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    How to Take a Month Off
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    Justified by Faith or by Works?
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    12 hours ago
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    When Leaders React Emotionally: An Interview with Home Depot CEO Frank Blake
    13 hours ago
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    2 startling observations about the Gospel of Mark
    15 hours ago
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  • Ron Edmondson | The Blog of Leader, Pastor, and Church Planter ...
    7 Qualities of a Followable Leader
    16 hours ago
  • David Murray - Leadership for Servants | HeadHeartHand Blog
    Contraception? Where’s the vision?
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  • Kevin DeYoung
    Help for the Poor that Really Helps
    17 hours ago
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    The Trip Advisor tail wagging the real world dog
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  • Michael Hyatt | Leading with Purpose
    4 Ways to Become a Leader People Want to Follow
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  • Cranmer
    Exeter College Oxford bans the Pope
    19 hours ago
  • Blogs | TheResurgence
    Reflections on Seven Years of Church Planting
    20 hours ago
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    The “System” of Evangelical Publishing
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    The Three Phases of Faith – a sermon on 2 Kings 4:8-37
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  • The London Institute for Contemporary Christianity
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Books in the rather slow making of a Jesus Follower

  • More than a carpenter
  • Crabb Finding God
  • Gumbel Questions of life
  • Yancey Rumours of another world
  • C S Lewis Mere Christianity
  • Tolkein The lord of the rings
  • The letters of John Newton
  • Eldredge The sacred romance
  • Farrar How to ruin your life by 40
  • Fee How to read the bible for all it's worth
  • Ogden Transforming discipleship
  • Edwards Distinguishing marks on the work of the Spirit
  • Breem A passionate life
  • Wilson Your Jesus is too safe
  • Ortberg Love beyond reason
  • Brown Whatever happened to the power of God
  • Ryle Going through the dry times
  • Driscoll Vintage Jesus
  • Stott The radical disciple
  • Harris Discovering the disciplines of the Saints
  • Stanley Next generation leader
  • Murray Lloyd-Jones: The fight of faith
  • Valley of Vision
  • Blessit The Cross
  • Edwards The nature of true virtue
  • Nouwen Out of solitude
  • Ortberg The life you always wanted
  • Willard The spirit of the disciplines
  • Stanley Visioneering
  • Peterson Working the angles
  • Farrar Overcoming overload
  • Collins Prophesy
  • The letters of Samuel Rutherford
  • White Excellence in leadership
  • Farrar Gettin There
  • Hybels The power of a whisper
  • Ortberg God is closer than you think
  • Nouwen The inner voice of love
  • Gumbel Searching issues
  • Peterson The wisdom of each other
  • Groeschl The Christian Atheist
  • Kraft Leaders that last
  • Eldridge Wild at Heart
  • Powlinson Speaking truth in love
  • Sheik I dared to call him father
  • Cho Prayers that bring revival
  • Zschech The kiss of heaven
  • Eric Delve To boldly go
  • Peterson Run with the horses
  • Chan The forgotten god
  • Batterson In a pit with a lion on a snowy day
  • Hybels Making life work
  • Hybels Axioms
  • Mahaney Humilty
  • Cleverly The discipline of intimacy
  • Warnock Raised with Christ
  • Batterson Wild goose chase
  • Ortberg Everybody's normal til you get to know them
  • Pollock On fire for God
  • Grubb Rees Howells Intercessor
  • Grant Vanya
  • Gumbel A life worth living
  • Idel The Journals of John Wesley
  • Kendall Out of the comfort zone
  • Cruz Run baby run
  • Edwards Keeping a spiritual journal
  • C S Lewis Surprised by joy
  • Guillebaud For what it's worth
  • Dever The gospel and personal evangelism
  • Virgo No well-worn path
  • Ponsonby The pursuit of the holy
  • Willard Renovation of the heart
  • Johnson Strengthen yourself in the Lord
  • Ponsonby And the lamb wins
  • Wilson Jesus brand spirituality
  • C S Lewis The great divorce
  • Pollock Billy Graham
  • Don Carson Memoirs of an ordinary pastor
  • Claibourne Irresistible Revolution
  • Paulas Hope for the flowers
  • Shelly The leadership secrets of Billy Graham
  • Essential Edwards Collection
  • Manning A glimpse of Jesus
  • Nee The Normal Christian Life
  • Peters The evangelists notebook
  • Peterson Eat this book
  • Peterson A long obedience in the same direction
  • Larsen Indelible Ink
  • Yancey Soul Suvivor
  • Yancey The Jesus I never knew
  • Yancey Reaching for the invisible God
  • Yaconelli Messy spirituality
  • Hybels Courageous Leadership
  • Sanders Spiritual leadership
  • Gibbons The monkey and the fish
  • Wimber The way it was
  • Wimber Power Evangelism
  • Carlile Spurgeon
  • Donovan Christianity Rediscovered
  • Miller Blue like Jazz
  • McKnight Embracing grace
  • Ponsonby God inside out
  • Bridges The Discipline of Grace
  • Hedges Christ formed in you
  • Pollock Whitfield
  • Boyd MacMillan Explosive preaching
  • MacDonald Restoring your spiritual passion
  • MacDonald A Resilient Life
  • Macchia Becoming a healthy disciple
  • Berry What are people for?
  • Foster Spiritual Classics
  • Foster Prayer
  • Ford The attentive life
  • Chambers My utmost for his highest
  • Eldridge Waking the dead
  • Andrew God's smuggler
  • Wilkerson The cross and the switchblade
  • Peterson Contemplative pastor
  • Driscoll Radical Reformission
  • Peterson Ten thousand places
  • Ortberg Get out of the boat
  • Capon The man who met God in a bar
  • Warren The purpose driven life
  • Glichrist Famous Christians
  • Miller A praying life
  • Johnson When heaven invades earth
  • Kendall In pursuit of his glory
  • Piper Desiring God
  • Stoner The God who smokes
  • Belcher Deep Church
  • George Sex, Sushi and Salvation
  • Miller Million miles in a thousand years
  • Barth on Prayer
  • Ravenhill Why revival tarries
  • Palmer Let your life speak
  • Pritchard The lost art of mediation
  • McIntyre The hidden life of prayer
  • Sister Wendy Prayer
  • Miller The heart of a servant leader
  • Wilson Wigglesworth
  • Allender Leading with a Limp
  • Von Hugel Letters to a niece
  • Sproul Holiness
  • Nathan Who is my enemy
  • Kapic The Devoted Life
  • Manning The Furious longing of God
  • Buechner Listening to your life
  • Hybels Prayer
  • Yancey Grace
  • Willard The Great Omission
  • Stewart A Faith to Proclaim
  • Philip Keller Shepherds and Sheep
  • MacDonald Restoring your broken world
  • Driscoll Confessions
  • Spurgeon Lectures to my students
  • Murray Jonathan Edwards
  • Pollock Wesley
  • Foster Celebration of Discipline
  • Wimber The way in is the way on
  • Murray Lloyd-Jones: The early years
  • Kendall Anointing
  • Farrar Finishing strong
  • Packer Knowing God
  • Klug How to keep a spiritual journal
  • White The Fight
  • Pullinger Chasing the Dragon
  • Stott Basic Christianity
  • Chan Crazy love
  • Ponsonby More
  • Keller Prodigal God
  • MacDonald Private World
  • Grubb C T Studd
  • Carson For the Love of God
  • Peterson Answering God
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