UPDATEThe Dwell Conference talks are now online, and you can download them.I love the people at Resurgence. They keep sharing more and more video and audio—all for free. After my pastor, Tope, reported his experience in New York I wanted to watch some Tim Keller as, bizarrely, I hadn't yet listened to him or read anything by him. The Dwell talks are not online yet, so I watched Tim Keller's Gospel Coalition talk. I was totally blown away by it! Here are a few of the highlights I picked … [Read more...]
VIDEO INTERVIEW – John Piper on the Preachers He Listens To and How He Became a Pastor
May 22, 2008 By Leave a Comment
UPDATE The written transcript of this segment of my interview with John Piper is now available. It can be read here. This is the fourth and final segment of my interview with John Piper. You can also watch these preceding segments: John Piper on New Word Alive and Spring Harvest John Piper on Passionate Preaching John Piper on Prayer and Bible Study I began this section by asking John which preachers he listens to on his iPOD. He mentioned a number of names, and if you have the … [Read more...]
VIDEO INTERVIEW – John Piper on Passionate Preaching
May 19, 2008 By 1 Comment
UPDATE The written transcript of this segment of my interview with John Piper is now available. You can read it here. Yesterday I began speaking with John Piper about New Word Alive and why he comes to the UK. In this segment, I began by putting before John the notion that he has an unusual degree of passion and anointing when preaching. I even quoted Lig Duncan, who said that he wondered if he had ever really preached after hearing Piper's talk at the first Together for the Gospel … [Read more...]
Edwin Millington Warnock – Founder of a Gospel Dynasty
May 6, 2008 By Leave a Comment
My grandfather, Edwin Warnock, was an evangelistic tent preacher. He was from Scotland, but came down to England, where he married a Londoner but lived in Suffolk. He had six children—five boys and one girl. Sadly, one boy died young. Each of the other boys married and had two boys. In my father's and one other case, they also had a girl. My auntie also married and had two girls and one boy. Many of those thirteen Warnock cousins of mine are now married themselves and have begun their own … [Read more...]
ASK THE DOCTOR – What Do You Mean By Unction in Preaching?
March 24, 2008 By Leave a Comment
In a variation on the “Ask a Blogger” theme, I received this e-mail, which was effectively asking Doctor Martyn Lloyd-Jones a question.“I have been doing some research lately on the revivals in Wales and the ministry of Christmas Evans and have come across an emphasis in the Welsh Revivals and in Lloyd-Jones on unction in preaching. Even C. J. Mahaney referenced this in a recent post on his blog: Recommended Chapters on Preaching. Long question, short: Is there anything that you’ve … [Read more...]
Four or Five-Fold Ministry in Ephesians 4?
March 2, 2008 By 1 Comment
More than once I have been accused of appropriating Lloyd-Jones to my charismatic cause. Today I want to restart my MLJ Monday tradition by sharing a quote which comes from a context where the Doctor is strongly disagreeing with one of my positions. He is talking about the so-called Ephesians 4 ministries. The Doctor divides these into two groups, believing that all but pastors and teachers are temporary. I believe that they all continue, although I think of modern-day apostles as being, in some … [Read more...]
Mark Driscoll – Putting Preachers in Their Place
February 25, 2008 By Leave a Comment
This is the first post in several I'll be doing in what I call “remote blogging.” A few times when Tim Challies and others have been at conferences, I've shared extracts from their posts here on my blog. This time Tim is not at the Resurgence Conference on Preaching, but the Resurgence folks are offering live videocasts of their sessions.Here, then, are my thoughts on Mark Driscoll's talk, which is taking place right now as I'm listening to it sitting in my room here in London. (Incidentally … [Read more...]
16th Most Read Post – Who Are Your Favorite Well-Known Living Preachers?
January 21, 2008 By Leave a Comment
No. 16 on the list of most-read posts on this blog appeared on July 20, 2005. In this post I simply asked my readers to identify their favorite preachers, and I listed my own personal favorites. I have retained all of the comments from this post and have now added them to the end. To see my list and some of my readers' lists, click here.If you are interested in letting me know who are YOUR favorite well-known living preachers, please e-mail adrian.warnock@gmail.com and place BLOG PREACHERS … [Read more...]
John Piper on Exultation in Preaching
January 9, 2008 By Leave a Comment
John Piper: - "God exists to be worshipped—to be admired and treasured and desired and praised. Therefore, the Word of God is written primarily to produce worship. This means that if that Word is handled like a hot-dish recipe or a repair manual, it is mishandled. And the people will suffer. The Truth of God begs to be handled with exultation. And our hearts yearn for this and need it. Something in us starts to die when precious and infinitely valuable realities are handled without feelings … [Read more...]
Review of the Blog – January to March 2007: Preaching and the Voice of God
December 18, 2007 By Leave a Comment
It's time once again to review another year's worth of blogging here at my place. I have made it something of a tradition to look back and reflect on the year that has passed. I have done this previously in December 2006, 2005, and 2004. The format is simple: I highlight some of the posts that I remember most, or enjoyed writing the most over the year. This time I will break it down into a series of posts.This year I began January's blogging—after extending my customary Christmas break … [Read more...]
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