25 years of Piper audio, and other stories

Desiring God have finally launched their new website. Among other things it offers 25 years of John Piper audio sermons (with videos for some of them as well!). There is reams of stuff on the site, here’s Piper telling us how he memorises Scripture. There is a section of Essential Piper resources and lots of Piper’s books available free.

– If Bebo doesn’t already waste enough of your time, Facebook (like, the original bebo) has finally opened up to allow Queen’s students to register (unlike bebo, you need to actually be at one of their listed universities or schools to sign up). Pam was on the case first and has already set up a Renwick group. A few interesting photos:


Sharon and random yanks


Tony Mastris with no hair after losing a bet!

This is one of the funniest posts on Ref 21 for a long time. You’ll only get it if you’ve been reading Ref 21, and if you haven’t, you should be!

– Strobert is back. And is using words like ‘cellphone’ in normal conversation, while defying all expectations by looking exactly the same.

Update: The new DG site took an amazing $70,000 dollars to complete. They say it cost them $200 to convert EACH Piper audio tape to mp3 format (digitally mastering it and removing distortion). The other week I converted 25 David McCullough tapes to mp3. So, if he was John Piper, it would have cost him $5,000!

Dick Lucas

Please feel free to ignore my earlier ramblings below and skip to the sermons.

This guy is the stuff. He’s a retired Anglican minister (81 or something now!), who was one of the boys that founded the Proclamation Trust. Don’t worry about him being English – Sweeney taught him a few things over in London when doing said course a few years ago.

He spoke at at the castle in 2004 on the Psalms. Which is a great place to start if you want to hear what he’s like, as he’s speaking to a group of young people in Norn Iron. You can also get sermons he’s preached at St. Helen’s, Bishopgate (where he was minister for ages) online here. I’ve linked to those available as mp3 downloads, because quite a few of them are free. The ones which have a code beginning SM or SE are better than TU, as the latter are shorter sermons preached at Tuesday lunchtime meetings for business men. The only thing is that the Bible readings on the Sunday morning and evening ones are done by a woman, which is quite unnerving!

Churches:
St Helen’s
St. George’s Tron, Glasgow (11 sermons – most recent Oct 09)
Church of St Andrew the Great, Cambridge (6 sermons)
Emmanuel Church, Wimbledon (9 sermons)

Free Proc Trust sermons arranged by book:
Proc Trust

Installation Sermon:
Charges to a Young Minister (2 Tim 2:1-7) (2009)

Individual Sermons:
A Midweek on Problems Christians Face (3 of 6 – Doubts) from 1985!
The Penitent Theif – Luke 23 (St Luke’s Church, Wimbledon Park)
Compelled by Love – 2 Tim 4:5 (All Souls Evangelists’ Conf 2004)
Keep yourselves from idolatry – 1 John 5:21 (Spicer Street, St Alban’s, March 2007)
Psalm 23 (St. Andrews Church, March 2007)

Interviews:
9 Marks Interview on Expositional Preaching
At St Andrew’s Church (March 2007)
Preaching Christ (White Horse Inn, 1995)
The Tron (see link above)

Conferences:
RP Ministers Conference 2009 (not online – try contacting jmark)

Termonfechin last time around

Below are Teddy Donnelly’s sermons from Termonfechin 2002. The topic was “Union with Christ”, the same topic he preached on in America the year before, so if you’ve listened to those, the Zoolander factor will be higher than usual, but these are personalised to the Irish context.

1: Believing into Christ
2: We who died to sin
3: Abide in Me
4: All one in Christ Jesus
5: The Fellowship of His Sufferings
(The average file size is about 6.5 MB)

Thanks to Joel for the tapes and CAVE for granting permission to make them more widely available.

Senior Camp Reunion 2006

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I was just going to post a few anecdotes and funny clips from the weekend, but Jeff’s been sent to Coventry for a few weeks so here are the talks to keep you ticking over till he comes back:

Talk 1: Problems, Source and Purpose of Spiritual Gifts
Talk 2: Distribution and Variety of Spiritual Gifts
Talk 3: Discovering, Using and Developing your Spiritual Gifts

And here’s the bonus features you won’t get on rpc.org:

Why if cooks want people to bring tray bakes and bars to the kitchen they should say it straight out
FAO: Rich Ganz
John George doing a couple of book reviews
Questions people asked Robert R before the 3rd talk

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I also recorded a few psalms with the voice recorder on my phone and they turned out quite well: Psalm 123 (Tune: Humility) and Psalm 3 (Tune: Belmont – beautfully raised by James Bun). (Those mp3s won’t play in Winamp for me, but they play in everything else). The singing at camp was amazing as always.

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Other than that I don’t have much to say about what was a very good weekend. There were 103 people there including committee and cooks. The Beach Games were cancelled on Saturday for the second year running, but we (those who hadn’t rushed off to play tiddly winks for their club that is) still went and the Western Presbytery drew 10-10 with the rest in a straight 90 minute football match. Big Sam got us all to sign the guestbook at Glenmanus. Alarmingly, Cream Bun spells his own name wrong. I did my usual. I’ve now signed guestbooks at Cregagh Road, Newry (twice I think), Glenmanus, the Sterrett’s and Shakespeare’s birthplace or suchlike in England. I might take it up as a hobby. Although I believe guestbooks are becoming less popular. Peter says that Carrick don’t have one because they (guestbooks) aren’t Scriptural. However that didn’t stop Carrick putting up Christmas Trees and celebrating Halloween (well, Oakfield Community Centre at least!). Oh, and despite the party now being less popular than ever, Andrew A says its set in stone – “the laws of the Medes and Persians and all that”. The boys were particularly grieved that they missed seeing Chelsea get stuffed 3-0 by Middlesborough. If you haven’t seen the goals yet, you can download them here.

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STOP PRESS: (I always wanted to say that). I was just about to post this when I found that Alistair Rolleston aka Colin Creevey (for taking loads of pitures) has posted loads of snaps of the weekend on bebo:


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Setting up for football on Saturday afternoon. Leeroy’s having a rather animated conversation with me there.

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Cromie Robert – the West’s star striker

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…Although only after him and John McCune had made another charge up the ‘just clean mad’ charts by running headlong into the sea

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Boring girls going for a walk

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“Yeah great” as Willy would say

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The party – doesn’t it just scream ‘FUN!’ at you?

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Joel McCavro – he should hang around with us types more often

Other non-camp (chortle) stuff:

I wasn’t posting that much recently, but I hope you’re all aware of the linkblog over there on the right where I link to (and usually comment on) interesting sites / stories I came across. If you click on the word ‘Linkblog’ it will take you to the archive of all the stuff I’ve posted, so you can see what you’ve missed if the 3 most recent ones have changed since you were last on.
Got my exam results there: 62 (Imperial Germany), 63 (Conquest to Charter ig Medieval English History) and 71 (Plantations and Parliaments ig British History 1600-1660 – I answered a question on ‘How revolutionary were the Covenanters?’ in the exam). Getting a first’s a bit embarrassing, musn’t be playing enough pro evo…
Oh, and I updated my Highlights of 2005 post as I had a few photos I didn’t want to go to waste…

Ted Donnelly ‘The Love of God in Christ’

Here’s a wee exclusive for you. The following talks are from a week of special services given by Ted Donnelly in Lisburn RPC in the early nineties. The talks are all from Ephesians 2 with the theme ‘The Love of God in Christ’. They’re all around 5MB. One of the tapes is a bit banjaxed so at the end of talk 3 and the start of talk 4 he sounds a bit like a smurf, but it doesn’t affect the listenability of them. If you’ve only time to listen to one, I’d listen to talk 4.

Man in Sin
Union with Christ
Saved by Grace
Without Hope and without God
Christ our Peace
Member’s of God’s Family
The Temple of God

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Thanks to Strob for lending me the tapes.

All Ted Donnelly audio sermons online