No BOB Today – Have Some Shepherds’ Conference Instead

by Stephen Rodgers

I have it on excellent authority that Stephen Rodgers (that lazy bum!) didn’t finish his BOB article on Psalms, because 1) Psalms is a really big and somewhat complicated book to summarize, 2) his wife’s family is camped out in his house, challenging his theology because apparently even unbelievers speak in tongues now, and 3) he’s drinking absurd amounts of caffeine and driving up to Shepherd’s Conference.

Always excuses with that guy.

I also have it on good authority that he’s going to try to distract you with some excellent resources that you may or may not already know about.  Let’s see if it works…

In talking with a number of folks about the Shepherd’s Conference, I was surprised to discover that not many people were aware of how accessible the messages are.  I wanted to take a moment to pass along a few links that might help you enjoy the conference, even if you aren’t going this year.

  • Ok, first of all, things get a little exciting because right away you have a choice of where you try to download the messages from: there’s the GCC Media page (which can be filtered to only include Shepherd’s Conference), or you can hit up the Shepherd’s Conference Media page.  They have the same content, just organized slightly differently (which is why those last two links both show 595 available sermons, at least as of the day I’m writing this).
  • I have a preference for the GCC Media page: it let’s me slice and dice the material so that it’s slightly more relevant.  For example, of those 595 sermons, here are the 562 in English.  Cesar/Marina, if you’re reading this, here’s the 13 in Spanish and the 20 in Russian.
  • You can also slice and dice by year, media type, and media subtype.  I find this helpful, because I can just click on Audio then filter by year to make sure I don’t miss anything.  So for example, here are the 36 messages from last year(2011), filtered by audio download (mp3 file) and language (English).
  • You still need to click through the link to see the download button, but that’s not hard. Toss those on your iThing/Droid/whatever of choice, and you’ve got a lot of good material in a very short amount of time.
  • And if you’re feeling particularly adventurous, you can explore the GCC Media page to find tons more messages as well. I should loop back around and show you a few that I’m particularly fond of, but in the meantime, searching out guys like Nathan Busenitz, Phil Johnson, Jonathan Rourke, and Austin Duncan is time well spent.  Or you can search by topic…or keyword…or Scripture.

Long story short, it’s a great resource, and I hope you benefit from it as much as I have.

PS. If you’re looking for more John MacArthur material, you probably want to hit up GTY. For example, the sermon archive sorted by date can be found here.