Audio for Pastor's Wives

Recently at the 2009 Sovereign Grace Pastor's Conference two seminars were given for pastor's wives that are worth listening to.

• The Pastor’s Wife and Culture: What Feminism Has Done to Femininity by Carolyn McCulley.
• The Pastor’s Wife and Ministry Opportunities: Five Great Deals She Won’t Want to Miss by Carolyn Mahaney.

Modesty

I've just discovered a new webzine over at Next . This month particularly has a worthwhile read in Lydia Brownback's article, The Single Woman and the Modesty of Personal Restraint:

As the spring season blooms, talk about modesty heats up in Christian conversation as fast as the weather. Bloggers, radio hosts, and the rest of us lament the shorter hemlines, deeper necklines, exposed bellies, and bare bottoms in thong bikinis at the neighborhood swim club. But immodesty deals with a lot more than revealing too much skin. We are just as prone—if not more so—to overexpose what’s under our skin. Revealing too much about ourselves is immodest too. When Peter painted his picture of godly womanhood, it included outward modesty—how we handle “the braiding of hair, the wearing of gold, or the putting on of clothing”—but it also included the modesty of personal restraint—“a gentle and quiet spirit,” which, he said, is very precious in God’s sight (1 Pet. 3:4).

Read on here. You'll also find further resources on the Next site with a bunch of conference messages from over the years on various subjects and from top notch speakers.

Free Proclamation Trust Audio

Unashamed Workman has linked to some free Proclamation Trust audio, including messages from Piper, Carson, Keller, Lucas, Jensen and Milne. What he failed to highlight ladies were a couple of messages for women! Here they are:

Spring Ministry Wives Conference 2008
Women in Ministry 2008
Women in Ministry 2009

Although the audio is free, you do need to register.

Biblical Womanhood

This week at our church we are beginning a year long, once a month women's study on Biblical Womanhood. We'll be using Sarah Young's study to guide us as we explore what the bible says about,

• God's Creative Design for Women
• Women and the Fall
• Women and Marriage
• Women and Singleness
• Women and Beauty
• Women and the Family of God
• Women and their Brothers
• Women and their Sisters
• Women and their Lord

We like to encourage a little bit more reading besides the studies, so we're also compiling a resource file of books & articles to read and a list of good talks/sermons on the net. This week I've been scouting out some good articles and talks on God's design for women at creation. Here's a few articles and sermons (so far) I've found worth passing on.

• Gender Identity in Creation by Mark Dever
• Men & Women: Similarities & Differences by Wayne Grudem
• Man & Woman Before Sin by John Piper
• Male & Female He Created Them In the Image of God by John Piper
• The Order of Creation by RC Sproul
• Male-Female Equality & Male Headship by Ray Ortlund Jr
• Male & Female Complementarity & the Image of God by Bruce Ware

Don Carson Resources

Andy Naselli has recently finished compiling a comprehensive collection of Carson MP3's to be hosted at The Gospel Coalition website. So if you have some spare time on your hands, start searching through all of the 443 free MP3's available here.

HT: JT

Wisdom

In Piper's sermon, "The Mind of Christ: Looking Out for the Interests of Others" he defines wisdom as:

The ability of the soul to perceive God-glorifying, Christ-exalting, gospel-fashioned, people-helping ways to live, with the knowledge God gives us. Wisdom is not the ability to memorize specific biblical rules of behavior. Wisdom is needed because so many of our decisions are not explicitly regulated by specific rules in the Bible.

Watch, read or listen to Piper's sermon on here. What he says is indeed beautiful.

Helpful Resources

Over at Revive Our Hearts there are some useful resources available for downloading and printing. Here are some, but you can find more here.

• 10 Reasons You Can't Afford Not to be Hospitable
• A Call to Biblical Womanhood
• Biblical Portrait of Womanhood
• Men & Women: Similarities & Differences
• 10 Questions for Explore & Understand a Church
• 31 Days of Praying for Your Pastor
• 31 Days of Praying for Your Pastor's Wife
• Follow the Leaders
• 15 Ways to Please Your Husband
• 30 Day Husband Encouragement Challenge
• 31 Days of Praying for Your Husband
• Personal "Hedges"
• Mirror Mirror On the Wall: The Decision to Live Your Life for God's Glory
• Sexual Purity
• 23 Great Questions to Ask Your Kids
• 12 Ways to Pray for Your Child's Future Mate
• 15 Ways to Make Prayer a Natural Part of Family Life
• 31 Biblical Virtues to Pray for Your Children
• How's Your Love Life?

Biblical Parenting

Here is the audio for the sessions from the recent Biblical Parenting conference at Mars Hill, with speaker Tedd Tripp. Alternatively you can go here and here to watch the video.

The Call to Formative Instruction



Giving Kids a Vision for God's Glory