Tim Casteel

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Your Online Go-To Resources

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This post is more of a solicitation for help than having anything to offer.

This morning I was having my QT and journaling/typing through my thoughts on how prideful I am (maybe another post on that later). I was fairly easily able to diagnose the problem – I care about my glory and man’s approval more than God’s glory and His approval. But I kind of felt stuck there.  How can I practically move forward today in believing the gospel as it relates to pride?

So like any other modern, I turned to the internet/my computer. Thank God (genuinely) I found a great resource in a John Piper sermon transcript – perfect for what I needed. All of John Piper’s sermons are transcribed, way faster/easier to get what you’re looking for than listening to 45 minutes (and I prefer reading Piper than hearing him). I also found great insights in the Gospel Centered Life bible study (that I mentioned a few posts back).

I found Piper’s sermon by going to Justin Taylor’s blog and searching the Gospel Coalition (which to me, sounds like Superman would be a part of: “Gospel Coalition, let’s go get some bad guys!”) site.  Unfortunately it appears that their search does not return “blog posts”, only sermons and articles. [there’s a search box on the right hand column that searches an individual blog] What I was looking for was a good couple Justin Taylor posts on Pride.

But it made me realize I am severely lacking in good online resources.

So, help me out, what are your Online Go-To Resources?
Not so much for ministry help/philosophy.  But for help on pursuing Christ or when you’re writing a talk/Bible study?

Here are my top 3 (off the top of my head):

  1. Desiring God Resource Library – all of Piper’s books in PDF form (searchable!), all of his sermons transcribed (quick reading!).  Amazing.
  2. Dr. Constable’s FREE online commentary of the entire Bible – I will not teach a passage of the Bible without first consulting with this commentary.  Dr. Constable is a professor at Dallas Theological Seminary.  I’ve been studying through Romans in my Quiet Times this summer and his commentary has been an immense help (and I love that you can copy and paste notes from it into a Word document (where I journal).  In addition to his commentary I was using the Expositors Commentary and I found Constable’s to be far better (and he actually quotes the Expositors Commentary half the time).
  3. Gospel Coalition site – specifically Justin Taylor’s blog but the whole site is searchable from there

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