Do you like Christian music from the 70's and 80's?

If you were alive int he 70's and 80's then you will want to check out this blog. At the blog Jesus Rocks, a lot of the text is in another language with some English in the comment area. You can listen to some great music from the early forerunners of contemporary Christian music like Larry Norman and Randy Stonehill. Greats like Phil Keaggy and Keith Green and many, many others. If you know of any other blogs that have a similar theme please leave a comment with the site address or name.

Having gone to college during this period I found this a walk down nostalgic lane. Take the walk with me. I think that you will enjoy it.

1031SermonJams.com

A way to be culturally relevant 1031SermonJams.com has taken sermons from pastors like John Piper, Mark Driscoll, Josh Harris and others and added music to them. Each pastor has been contacted the web site says to obtain permission to use the sermons.

You may know someone who might listen to a good sermon in this way. Go the the site and give a listen.

Desiring God Pastors Conference 2009

Registration is open now for the Pastors Conference 2009, "Commending Christ: The Pastor, The Church, and the Perishing."

The speakers will be Mark Dever senior pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC. Matt Chandler lead pastor of The Village Church in Highland Village, TX, and Michael Oh who is president and founder of the fastest growing seminary in Japan, Christ Bible Seminary in Nagoya. Along with John Piper the Pastor for Preaching and Vision at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

To find out more about the conference and how to register go to this events link at Desiring God.

Francis Schaeffer

Recently I have been reading a book by Colin Duriez titled "Francis Schaeffer an Authentic Life" which has been a excellent read. It has caused me to think back to my college days and when we were expected to read a new book at the time called "Escape From Reason." The professor who made this required reading did a great service to the students under his charge. Soon I was reading "True Spirituality" and other works by Schaeffer. I was shaped in part by his writing.

Years latter I would hear him speak at Bethel College during his fight with cancer.

Over the years I have had the privilege to meet Edith and Franky Schaeffer on book tours when I managed a Christian Bookstore. Oh the memories that flood in from these wonderful by-gone days. Oh how God used Francis Schaeffer to shape a vast number of young people to see God more clearly.

Crossway publishing has done it again with this great biography.

Schaeffer video:
The Idol of Personal Peace and Affluence part 1

Bethlehem College and Seminary

Bethlehem Baptist in Minneapolis makes it official that it will launch a College and Seminary in the summer of 2009. I would encourage you to listen to Pastor John Piper describe the biblical foundation that this new venture will hold its self too. Watch and listen to the video The Earth is the Lords as Piper explains this biblical foundation to Christian education.

A new web site has been set up click this link to go to Bethlehem College and Seminary.

Be in prayer for the faculty and the students that will be attending that they would catch a vision to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples through Jesus Christ.