TWO ALTERNATIVE WORLD-VIEWS, ‘Modern’ and ‘Post-modern’: 1. Concept of world-views: Everyone has some sort of working philosophy of life which underlies life choices and behavior. A ‘worldview” consists of answers to several basic questions: 1) ‘where did the world come from?” 2) ‘how do we know things, especially right and wrong?” 3) ‘what is wrong…
From the 2008 Acts 29 Chicago Boot Camp by Mark Dever. “Mark Dever serves as the senior pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC and the president of 9Marks Ministries.” Listen to the talk here Notes (very rough) “Our differences are enough to separate some of my friends—your brothers and sisters in Christ—from you. And…
The 2011 Sovereign Grace Plant! Conference was held March 24-26th at Covenant Fellowship Church in Glen Mills, PA. This years speakers included Mark Dever (Pastor of Capital Hill Baptist Church and founder of IX Marks), Dave Harvey(responsible for church care, church planting, and international expansion for Sovereign Grace Ministries), C. J. Mahaney (leads Sovereign Grace…
Sometimes we may find that far too much of our identity has become wrapped up in who we are professionally. Of course, none of this is work’s fault. It all grows out of our sinful hearts and our tragic ability to stain anything we touch with idolatry and selfishness. Does this mean that all work…
1. First, identify the real, basic existing commitments of the hearers. Show them what ideas, what goals, what things they really rely and base their lives on. Identify them clearly and demonstrate their insufficiency. When a communicator seeks a change, he or she must recognize the already existing life-commitments. Depending on the kind of audience,…
