Author: Andy Rowell

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Books Commentaries Seminaries

Links to Lists of Good Commentaries

When writing good Bible Studies, it can be tremendously helpful to look at a commentary on the passage you are studying. For example, it can be very helpful to read what Craig Blomberg said in his commentary on Matthew about Matthew 6:1-18. But which commentaries should you read? See below some links to some lists of recommended commentaries for each book of the Bible.

Denver Seminary Old Testament Bibliography 2003
Denver Seminary New Testament Bibliography 2003
Gordon-Conwell Seminary Bibliography

I also recommend:

Glynn, John. Commentary and Reference Survey: A Comprehensive Guide to Biblical and Theological Resources. 9th ed. Kregel Academic & Professional, 2003. $13.

Reviewed positively in RBL and JETS

I started asking for commentaries for Christmas presents my senior year at Taylor and haven’t stopped since!

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Audio Bible Study Megachurches Preaching Seminaries

Favorite Audio Sermons and Lectures

This post was updated on August 30, 2006.

Below I have placed links to lots of free audio of good teachers and speakers on the internet.

See also my list of favorite podcasts for church leaders here. 

30GoodMinutes.org including Frederick Buechner, Richard Foster, Thomas Groome, Calvin Miller, Lewis Smedes, Jim Wallis, Walter Wangerin, Will Willimon, Philip Yancey

Allelon – NT Wright, Brian McLaren, Eugene Peterson, Dallas Willard

American Rhetoric including Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Bono

Andy Stanley – North Point Community Church

Andy Stanley – Practically Speaking – Seven Practices of Effective Ministry Series

BibleGateway.com Audio Bibles

Billy Graham and Franklin Graham – The Hour of Decision Past Broadcasts

Bob Russell – OnePlace.com – Broadcast Archives

Brenda Salter McNeil – Urban Youth Workers Institute – "Elevate" –  2004

Brenda Salter McNeil – New Community (Chicago) – "Racial Reconciliation" – 11/20/2005

Brian McLaren – Cedar Ridge Community Church including series on Emerging Church in Sept-Oct 2005.

Brian McLaren Q&A with Canadian Church Leaders "Resonate" in April 2006.

Brian McLaren – Grand Rapids Theological Seminary – What is Emerging?

Catalyst Conference Podcast Interviews with Andy Stanley, Erwin McManus, Donald Miller, Tim Sanders, Eugene Peterson. Rob Bell, Mike Foster and Louie Giglio.

Cornel West at Whitman College

Covenant Theological Seminary’s "Covenant Worldwide" – free seminary courses.

Craig Barnes and John Perkins – Shadyside Presbyterian Church Recent Sermons

Da Vinci Code – New Testament scholars Richard Hays and Bart Ehrman Debate – April 2006

Dallas Willard Audio

Darrell Johnson, Ken Shigematsu, Larry Crabb, John Stackhouse – Tenth Avenue Church

David Dark – The Message in the Matrix – 25 minute interview

Durham NT Seminar Audio Archives including NT Wright, James Dunn, Walter Moberly, Francis Watson, John Barclay

Eddie Gibbs and Ryan Bolger Lecture on Emerging Churches at Fuller Seminary

Emergent Village Podcasts including LeRon Shults, Miroslav Volf, Stanley Hauerwas, and Scot McKnight.

Erwin McManus – Mosaic Podcast

European Leadership Forum – Resources for European evangelical leaders – Amy Orr-Ewing, Don Carson, Ravi Zacharias, Bruce Winter, Darrell Bock, Henri Blocher, and William Lane Craig.

Following Christ 2002-2003 – InterVarsity Plenary Session Speakers – Marva Dawn, Miroslav Volf, Dallas Willard

For Sale – Regent Bookstore Online MP3 CDs

For Sale – Willow Creek Conference Resources

For Sale – Youth Specialties 2005 National Youth Workers Convention – San Diego, California

For Sale Youth Specialties 2004 National Youth Workers Convention – San Diego, California

For Sale Youth Specialties Pastor’s Conference 2003

Grand Rapids Theological Seminary Chapel: Rodney Clapp, Robert Webber, Brian McLaren, Scot McKnight, DA Carson

Gordon-Conwell’s Dimensions of the Faith free online theological education program. Listen to full Church History, Systematic Theology, and Biblical Studies courses.

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship Audio

J.I. Packer – St. John’s Shaughnessy Anglican Church

John Ortberg – Menlo Park Presbyterian Church – Menlo Park, CA – Sermons Online

John Piper – Audio Sermons

John Stott, Alister McGrath, Philip Yancey – All Souls Church, Langham Place

John Stott "A Call to Christian Maturity" Mariner’s Church, Calif. Nov 2005

Larry Crabb – New Way Ministries

Leadership Network resources – mission statement: to identify, connect and help high-capacity Christian leaders multiply their impact.

Leith Anderson – Weekly Sermons

Marva Dawn interview. It is excellent.  From WBCL – a Christian radio station in Fort Wayne, IN.  March 24, 2006.  You can only listen to it online. 

Max Lucado – UpWords

N.T. Wright Page

New Perspective on Paul Opponents- Theopedia – DA Carson

Off-The-Map – Brian McLaren on Evangelism

Parker Palmer Lecture

Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Audio including Ken Bailey

Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Audio including Emerging Church Discussions with John Franke

Preaching Today Audio – They ususally have one free under "Media"

Princeton Theological Seminary Emerging Church Theological Education Caucus with Brian McLaren, Tony Jones, Kenda Dean, and Doug Pagitt

Princeton Theological Seminary Institute for Youth Ministry – Cloud of Witnesses: An Audio Journal on Youth, Church and Culture including Eugene Peterson and Darrell Guder

Regent College Radio

Resurgence Podcasts including Mark Driscoll, Tim Keller, John Piper, Chris Seay

Rob Bell – Mars Hill

Stuart and Jill Briscoe – Elmbrook Church, Brookfield, Wisconsin

Taylor University Chapel Archives 2005-2006 – Jay Kesler, Dan Allender

Tony Jones talks with Alan Hartung – March 2006

The Veritas Forum – Donald Miller, Alvin Plantinga, William Lane Craig

Tim Keller – Redeemer Presbyterian Church

Tim Keller – free archive

Tony Campolo’s Messages

Wheaton College Chapel – now free!

Willow Creek’s most recent mid-week "New Community" sermons

Basics of listening to MP3’s:

In the olden days, I would listen to tapes. Now I usually listen to MP3’s. If you are technologically fearful and don’t want to deal with the hassle of MP3’s, you can always pay for CD’s and tapes. Almost all the sites above have places where you can order CD’s or tapes. But if you want to listen to free stuff, this is the ticket!

MP3’s are computer files. So you can listen to them on any computer and on most new CD players and DVD players and of course portable MP3 players. Your computer will likely play them in Windows Media Player, or on the basic Real Player (which is free to download here) or in ITunes (which you can download for free here). Basically, you just click on the sites above and you click on the sermon you want to listen to and it will pop up and begin playing. Make sure you have your volume up on your computer (Control Panel . . . Sounds and Audio Devices . . . )

Some of the audio are only available when you are connected to the internet. Usually they play in Real Player only or some other player. But most are MP3’s that you can download and listen to later. If you want to save a copy to your computer to listen to later, you can often right click the link and click "Save Target as . . ." and save the MP3 to a folder of your choice on your computer. For example, you can do this with the Veritas files. (These are big files (20-50 MB) so you don’t want to do this with Dial Up.)

Once you have it on your computer, you can burn it to a CD and play it in your CD player or DVD player or MP3 player. Or just listen to it from your computer like I do. I hook my laptop up to my stereo by having a cord that goes from my laptop headphone jack into my stereo.

See my description here of my listening habits.

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Books

Philadelphia Christian Ministries Bibliography

Since we were visiting Philadelphia Christian ministries I found a number of resources by and about the people we were visiting there. If you are interested in living in Philadelphia, this bibliography would be a great resource for you.

Books

Revolution and Renewal: How Churches Are Saving Our Citiesby Tony Campolo, Bruce Main Westminster John Knox Press (March, 2000)

Churches That Make a Difference: Reaching Your Community With Good News and Good Works (Paperback)by Ronald J. Sider, Philip N. Olson, Heidi Rolland Unruh Baker Books (March, 2002)

Scandal Of The Evangelical Conscience: Why Are Christians Living Just Like The Rest Of The World? by Ronald J. Sider Baker Books (February, 2005)

Good News and Good Works: A Theology for the Whole Gospel (Paperback)by Ronald J. Sider Baker Books (February, 1999)

Urban Ministry: The Kingdom, the City, & the People of God (Hardcover)by Harvie M. Conn, Manuel Ortiz InterVarsity Press (February, 2001)

One New People: Models for Developing a Multiethnic Church (Paperback)by Manuel Ortiz InterVarsity Press (August, 1996)

School(s) for Conversion: 12 Marks of a New Monasticism (Paperback)by Rutba House (Editor) Cascade Books (January, 2005)

If Jesus Were a Senior: Last-Minute Preparations for Postcollege Lifeby Bruce Main Westminster John Knox Press; 1st ed edition (February, 2003)

Articles

The Simple Way – Shane Claiborne Articles:
1.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/009/16.38.html
The New MonasticismA fresh crop of Christian communities is blossoming in blighted urban settings all over America.by Rob Moll
September 2005, Vol. 49, No. 9, Page 38

2. Third chapter of
The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radicalby Shane Claiborne
Zondervan (February 1, 2006)
http://www.thesimpleway.org/shane/sampler.pdf

Ron Sider Articles:
3.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2000/111/12.0.html
Ron Sider’s Unsettling CrusadeWhy does this man irritate so many people? cover story of the April 27, 1992 issue of Christianity Today

4.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/004/32.70.html
The Evangelical ScandalRon Sider says the movement is riddled with hypocrisy, and that it’s time for serious change.Interview by Stan Guthrie
April 2005, Vol. 49, No. 4, Page 70
Andy Crouch Articles:
6.
http://www.culture-makers.com/articles/on_the_journey_to_greatness
On the Journey to Greatness
Jonah, Jeremiah, Jeff, and the impact of faithfulness.
Andy Crouch
7.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/011/12.36.html
The Emergent MystiqueThe ’emerging church’ movement has generated a lot of excitement but only a handful of congregations. Is it the wave of the future or a passing fancy?By Andy Crouch
November 2004, Vol. 48, No. 11, Page 36

You might also want to read Brian McLaren’s response at http://www.anewkindofchristian.com/archives/000271.html

You might also want to read Tony Jones’s response http://theoblogy.blogspot.com/2004/10/emergent-mystique.html

See also Andy Crouch’s response to all the blogging: http://theoblogy.blogspot.com/2004/10/andy-crouch-responds.html

8.http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/006/31.53.html Rites of PassageSelf-improvement is our culture’s most durable religion.By Andy Crouch
June 2003, Vol. 47, No. 6, Page 53

9.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/004/25.98.html
Compliant but ConfusedUnpacking some myths about today’s teens.by Andy Crouch
April 2005, Vol. 49, No. 4, Page 98
Manny Ortiz Article:
10.
http://www.wts.edu/publications/articles/ortiz-interview.html
Carl Trueman Interview of Manuel Ortiz
First published in Themelios, the journal of the Religious and Theological Studies Fellowship, January 2004.

Tony Campolo Article:
11.
http://www.ctlibrary.com/8862
The Positive ProphetTony Campolo is a ferocious critic of Christians left and right. Why do people still flock to hear him?Ted OlsenJanuary 1, 2003

12.
http://www.tonycampolo.org/overthetopforjesus.pdf
A booklet on Tony’s ministry. You do not need to read this.

13.
http://www.tonycampolo.org/media.php
Sermons to listen to by Tony Campolo. This is just for fun.

14.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/states/pennsylvania/counties/chester_county/cities_and_neighborhoods/13082755.htm Building ties across cultures A former garage in Kennett Square helps shape friendships among youths of different backgrounds.By Susan WeidenerInquirer Suburban Staff Posted on Sun, Nov. 06, 2005

Other Articles (some you have to pay for online):

Title: Downward Mobility in an Upscale World.Author: Shane ClaibornePublication: The Other Side (Magazine/Journal)Date: November 1, 2000Publisher: The Other SideVolume: 36 Issue: 6 Page: 10

Title: Yeast of the Pharisees.(Room For Grace)Author: Shane ClaibornePublication: The Other Side (Magazine/Journal)Date: July 1, 2004Publisher: The Other SideVolume: 40 Issue: 4 Page: 9(1)

Bruce Main in
Up & Comers, Part 2November 11, 1996 Christianity Today

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/009/17.12.html
A More Demanding FaithChristian history is full of attempts to lead a more radical faith.by David Neff
September 2005, Vol. 49, No. 9, Page 12

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2096/is_1_55/ai_n13798048
On evangelicals and interfaith cooperation: an interview with Tony Campolo by Shane Claiborne
Cross Currents, Spring, 2005 by Shane Claiborne