Robust Resources for Changed Lives 

Where do you turn for in-depth, comprehensive, relational resources that equip you to speak the truth in love so we can all grow together in Christ? There are numerous great sources available in the Evangelical world today. Another cutting-edge resource is coming your way.

Save the date. On Monday, May 2, 2011, the Biblical Counseling Coalition (BCC) will launch its Blog Site: Grace & Truth. 

The first week, you can enjoy the following posts from leaders in the biblical counseling movement:

• Monday, May 2: Paul Tripp, The Ultimate Lens on Life

• Tuesday, May 3: Elyse Fitzpatrick, Despising the Shame 

• Wednesday, May 4: Steve Viars, Biblical Counseling as a Community Bridge 

• Thursday, May 5: Bob Kellemen, Our Competence Comes from Christ

• Friday, May 6: BCC Staff, Five to Live By: The Best of the Best on the Net in Biblical Counseling

• Saturday, May 7: The BCC Interview: Pastor Deepak Reju of Capitol Hill Baptist Church

The BCC Blog Site will also include a list of Featured Blogs and a list of Recommended Websites. The BCC is not about the BCC. The BCC is about bc—biblical counseling—linking you to valuable resources, best-practice churches, premier para-church groups, and conferences you won’t want to miss.

Just the First-fruits

And this is just the first of several upcoming BCC “launches.”

In late May to early June, the BCC Book Review site will launch. Every week the BCC will post four biblical counseling book reviews. The site will also provide “The Best of Guides” (such as “The Top Ten Books on Biblical Counseling and Dealing with Anxiety”).

Then throughout the summer and on an ongoing basis, the BCC will launch the Free Resources section of the website. Eventually, the BCC plans to provide 1,000s of free articles, forms, counseling guides, videos, and audio resources.

Three Audiences

Every section of the BCC website will focus on three audiences:

• People seeking biblical care: all of us—people in need of change.

• People providing biblical care: pastors, counselors, spiritual friends.

• People equipping biblical care-givers: educators, equippers, writers.

If you’d like to be placed on the BCC e-mailing list to hear more updates and receive periodic e-blasts and e-newsletters, sign-up on the BCC home page.

Join the Conversation

• What blog post topics would you like to see the BCC address?

• What books would you like the BCC to review?

• What free resource topics would you want the BCC to provide?

Tags: Biblical Counseling, Biblical Counseling Coalition, Bob Kellemen, Deepak Reju, Elyse Fitzpatrick, Paul Tripp, Steve Viars

Five Favorite Christmas Posts

This week’s best of the best: my five favorite Christmas posts from around the net.

O Come All Ye Faithful

Kevin DeYoung posts a beautiful, worshipful rendition of O Come All Ye Faithful.

It’s a Wonderful Life?

Here’s a creative post from the good folks at Desiring God: An Open Letter to Clarence the Angel.

Augustine’s Christmas Prayer

Trevin Wax quotes Augustine’ Christmas Prayer.

Luke 2:1-7

You can’t say it any better than Scripture, as Deepak Reju of Nine Marks reminds us at Rejoice Our Savior Was Born.

Mary

Christianity Today reflects on Mary’s awe in Me? Favored? By God?

Join the Conversation

Which post impacted you the most? Why? What blog posts have you enjoyed this week that you want to share with others?

Tags: Christmas, It's a Wonderful Life, The Best of the Best, Trevin Wax

The Best of the Best Around the Net

One of my passions is bridge-building, connecting, and highlighting other ministries and ministry resources—so that the Body of Christ is built up and Christ is magnified (Ephesians 4:15-16). My weekly post, The Best of the Best Around the Net, links you to blog posts that provide robust, rich, and relevant insights for living. Check out the following links you can trust.

Strategic Discipleship

Over at Church Matters, the blog site for 9Marks Ministry, Pastor Deepak Reju has posted a very helpful blog on “Picking Fruit Off of a Tree.” He explores practical principles for discipling leaders.

Scandalous

John Bird over at Discerning Reader reviews D. A. Carson’s Scandalous: The Cross and Resurrection of Jesus. “In his inimitable style, Carson returns us to where we must forever dwell theologically: Christ’s cross and resurrection.” Read the rest of John’s review here.

6 Views on Brian McLaren’s A New Kind of Christianity

I normally don’t post about my own post, however, this really isn’t “my” post. I’ve updated a post where I link you to six different views on McLaren’s A New Kind of Christianity. If you’re interested in what to make of this book, visit here.

What Is the Character of God and Why Does It Matter to Me?

Ed Welch of the CCEF has a very practical blog where he asks, “Is God Picky?”. How we see God is the most important thing about us.

Ingredients of Successful Blogs

Michael Hyatt is the leading Christian thinker about Web 2.0, social networking, blogging, ministry-based-marketing, etc. In this post, he invites a guest blogger to discuss “The Third Ingredient of a Successful Blog”. Also find the links to the first two posts in the series. What good does it do if you write a great blog, but nobody reads it? Or, put another way, “If a blog is written in the woods, does anyone see it?”

Join the Conversation

Of my Best of the Best Around the Net, which post impacted you the most? Why?

What blog posts have you read this week that you want to share with others?

Tags: Best of the Net, Carson, CCEF, Discerning Reader, Ed Welch