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May 6
Clarus ’10 Audio Now Online
We just wrapped up Clarus ’10 with Wayne Grudem and Randy Alcorn. The theme was “Between Heaven and Earth” and touched upon various topics such as, suffering, heaven, business, ethics, government, and economics. The audio for the eight different sessions, including two Q&A sessions, is now online (for free). If you weren’t able to attend some or all of the sessions, let me encourage taking the time to listen. Some good, helpful, thought-provoking stuff!
- Business for the Glory of God: The Bible’s Teaching on the Moral Goodness of Business, with Wayne Grudem
- The God Who Brings Good Out of Bad: Suffering, Evil, and the Promise of Heaven (Rom. 8:14ff), with Randy Alcorn
- Business Ethics: Working, Buying, and Selling according to God’s Moral Standards, with Wayne Grudem
- Investing in Eternity: Financial Stewardship and Eternal Rewards, with Randy Alcorn
- Panel Discussion 1, with Randy Alcorn and Wayne Grudem
- The Bible’s Solution to World Poverty: 50 Factors within Nations that Determine Their Wealth or Poverty, with Wayne Grudem
- Panel Discussion 2, with Randy Alcorn and Wayne Grudem
- Keep Your Heart with All Vigilance (Prov. 4:23), with Wayne Grudem (Sunday AM service at DSC)
May 4
Thanks to Wayne Grudem and Randy Alcorn
Many thanks to Wayne Grudem and Randy Alcorn for their faithful, humble, and helpful ministry among us this last weekend at Clarus ’10. It was an enormous privilege to sit under their teaching and a great pleasure to get to know them.
As Randy’s Facebook page attests, a lot of that time together was spent at Jason’s Deli.
(Ryan Kelly, Wayne Grudem, Randy Alcorn, and Randy’s pastor/friend, Steve Keels)
Apr 29
Grudem on Misguided Political Involvement
How should Christians relate to politics? Wayne Grudem explains five wrong views of political involvement:
- Government compelling religion
- Religion excluded from the public square
- Christians abandoning government altogether
- Christians doing evangelism and not politics
- Christians doing politics and not evangelism
Dr. Grudem will be speaking at DSC on the topics of business, ethics, and world poverty this Friday and Saturday, as well as preaching in both of our Sunday AM services. Hope you plan to join us.
Apr 29
Why Suffering?
In this video, Randy Alcorn briefly answers the question of God’s purposes for suffering and evil. Suffering tells us:
This can’t be all there is; there’s got to be something better… There is a better world than this. We live between Eden and the New Earth.
Randy will be speaking on this topic on Friday evening of our Clarus Weekend (“Between Heaven and Earth”).
In preparation for that, you might want to take a look at a lengthy interview with Randy about his book, If God is Good: Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil.
Apr 29
Alcorn on Endurance
I just finished listening to a wonderful message by Randy Alcorn, given at the 2007 Desiring God conference: “Today’s Decisions Determine Who You Will Be Tomorrow.” The thesis of the message is this (very convicting and helpful):
Whether or not you endure in your Christian life is dependent upon who you become. Will you become God’s man or your man, Christ-dependent or self-dependent? It is the little choices of life that determine which one you become. Endurance consists of a “long obedience in the same direction.â€
As we gear up for our Clarus conference weekend with Wayne Grudem and Randy Alcorn maybe you’ll take time to watch or listen to this great message.