Timmy Brister announced his blog’s gospel-centered resources page. It contains lists of books, blogs, articles, and media to aid in enriching gospel-understanding. His plan is to update it regularly.

You can download Mike Bullmore’s “The Functional Centrality of the Gospel in the Life of the Local Church MP3″ for free now at Sovereign Grace Ministries Store. It’s excellent. Check it out.

One:22 blogs about a “preaching the gospel to yourself diagram.”

Download this free sermon from The Crowded House entitled “The priority of the gospel.” It’s the first sermon from their series on what The Crowded House values. I’ve been greatly challenged by them the last few weeks. Excellent stuff for sure.

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I recently discovered The Crowded House as a result of getting a book entitled The Total Church: A radical reshaping around gospel and community by Tim Chester and Steve Timmis. The Crowded House is a network of missional communities in Sheffield and Loughborough, England, that are committed to church planting. Most of their churches meet in homes and are committed to:

I’ve only just finished the third chapter of Total Church but have already been deeply challenged by its contents. It is not a book for those who are content with being content to play church or who think of church participation as one activity among others that they are involved in. Tim Chester and Steve Timmis are clearly passionate about the church, that is, about Christian community that is intentionally centered on the gospel and mission. Tim and Steve write, “Most gospel ministry involves ordinary people doing ordinary things with gospel intentionality” (61). “Being gospel-centred means being mission-centred, for the gospel is a missionary word. The gospel is good news. It is a word to be proclaimed. You cannot be committed to the gospel without being committed to proclaiming that gospel” (32).

Here are some quotations I’ve highlighted so far in my reading of this, what I’m finding to be, deeply challenging book: Read the rest of this entry »

Stammered Life considers this question: Is the Gospel News or Advice?

David Snoke preaches a sermon entitled “The Gospel-Centered Church” (Mp3 - right click) at City Reformed.

Goodmanson writes about leading Gospel-centered church meetings.

Creation Project highlights a new book about gospel-centered community and mission.

Scott Sterner shares his family’s recently updated gospel-centered mission statement.