Resources Mentioned Yesterday From the Pulpit

In both AM and PM messages, I referenced some resources that some of you may be interested in. While preaching in the morning from 2 Corinthians 8 and 9 on giving, I called your attention to an article about the value of the U.S. dollar falling in foreign countries. This, of course, is negatively affecting the work our IMB missionaries can do. If you would like to read the entire article, you can do so by clicking here. Baptist Press will also provide many other helpful and insightful articles for you to read.
During the AM message I also read some frightening statistics about the state of Christianity and the church in North America. If you click here it will take you to a written sermon preached by John Piper. At the beginning of the sermon, you will see a list of statistics. He provides a note of where he got the statistics at the end of the sermon (in the endnotes). The reference is from a paper written by Dave Earley. Click on the link provided there and it will take you directly to the paper (in Microsoft Word format).

In last night's sermon I called your attention to a book entitled The Race Set Before Us: A Biblical Theology of Perseverance and Assurance by Thomas R. Schreiner and Ardel B. Caneday. It is a very biblical, academic, and scholarly read on the subject of "Once Saved Always Saved." You can order it from Amazon.com by clicking here.
Happy Reading!