Web List

A few final items to include in the list are web-based audio resources that have been a big part of my thought life recently:

• Francis Schaeffer lectures from Jerram Barrs, these are from Covenant Theological Seminary professor Jerram Barrs, who worked with Schaeffers in Switzerland and later helped start and run the English branch of L'Abri. His stories are littered throughout these 45-60 minute lectures, which range from biographic details of the Schaeffers' lives and how God used them and brought them to start L'Abri, to in-depth discussions of their books and the criticisms which have been laid on Francis' philosophy and theology. Dr. Barrs' insights in the later lectures, dealing with the divide between the "upper and lower stories" in the modern mind and the crossing of the "line of despair" by philosophy, have plain application in discussing current topics in Evangelicalism and Western culture at large.
• 50 Factors Within Nations that Determine Their Wealth or Poverty by Wayne Grudem. I listened to a shorter version of these lectures which I think was available through Gordon-Conwell Seminary's iTunesU page, and found it a very interesting study. Grudem showed how the biblical principles which were part of the worldview in the development of this nation are responsible for its subsequent prosperity.
• Doctrine: What Christian Should Believe by Mark Driscoll. This series of sermons at Mars Hill Church in Seattle, WA formed the basis for the book discussed above. Pastor Driscoll lays out a great deal of information in each of the 13 hour-long videos, and provides a 15-20 minute summary version of each as well. We have used these summaries for our Bible study on Sunday nights for the past several weeks. Tonight we are watching and discussing "Fall: God Judges", and Amelia wants to play ultimate frisbee afterward.
• White Horse Inn Podcast. This podcast, hosted by Michael Horton, Rod Rosenblatt, Kim Riddlebarger, and Ken Jones, who all teach in seminaries and/or preach in churches in Southern California, is dedicated to helping people know what they believe and why they believe it. The free podcast is supplemented by the (not free) magazine Modern Reformation, which is published six times each year. This year, both the podcast and the magazine are dedicated to issues concerning Scripture, including textual criticism, inerrancy, the formation of the canon, and hermeneutics. If you sign the guest book at their website, they will send you a free copy of the current Modern Reformation and a CD of WHI classic material.

And that's most of it.