We recently added several new C.J. videos to the supply on Vimeo. To date, 26 sermons and two Q&As are available. What follows is a list of messages and links, organized by date and beginning with the oldest message.
It’s worth noting that these videos would not be available without the skill and diligent labor of our faithful audio/video specialist: Dave MacKenzie. Thank you, Dave!
A list of available videos:
Do Not Love the World
1 John 2:12–17
New Attitude
January 3, 2002
Sovereign Grace
Ephesians 1:4
Sovereign Grace Small Group Leaders Conference
November 14, 2002
Only One Gospel
Galatians 1:1–5
Covenant Life Church
December 8, 2002
Interrogating the Legalist Within
Galatians 3:1–5
Covenant Life Church
February 9, 2003
Cravings and Conflict
James 4:1–2
Covenant Life Church
March 21, 2004
The Morning After
Psalm 33
Covenant Life Church
October 31, 2004
Encourage
Ephesians 4:29
Covenant Life Church
December 12, 2004
Different by Design, Session 2
1 Timothy 3:14–16
Different by Design Conference
January 31, 2005
The Cross: A Meditation on Jesus's Atoning Death
Isaiah 53
New Attitude Conference
May 29, 2006
The Assessment That Matters
1 Corinthians 3:18–4:5
Covenant Life Church
October 22, 2006
Deflating the Puffed Up Church
1 Corinthians 4:6–13
Covenant Life Church
November 5, 2006
Trinitarian Pastoral Ministry
2 Corinthians 13:14
Sovereign Grace Pastors Conference
April 13, 2007
The Idol Factory
Exodus 20:1–3
New Attitude Conference
May 27, 2007
Discern How to Apply
James 1:22
New Attitude Conference
May 29, 2007
The Cup
Mark 14:22–42
Covenant Fellowship
October 21, 2007
Who's Really at Work?
Philippians 2:12–13
The Pursuit
November 10, 2007
Q&A on Biblical Masculinity
The Pursuit
November 10, 2007
A Warning Label
1 Corinthians 2:6–16
Sovereign Grace Church
February 3, 2008
Pastoral Character and Loving People
1 Corinthians 1:1–9
Resurgence: Text & Context Conference
February 25, 2008
Death Swallowed Up in Victory
1 Corinthians 15:17
Covenant Life Church
March 23, 2008
Sustaining a Pastor's Soul
Philippians 1:3–8
Together for the Gospel
April 17, 2008
The Troubled Soul
Psalm 42
New Attitude Conference
May 25, 2008
Knowing God as Father
Galatians 4:1–7
Resolved Conference
June 17, 2008
The Scream of the Damned
Mark 15
Resolved Conference
June 16, 2008
Hidden in Plain Sight
1 Corinthians 1:1–9
Straight Up Conference
October 7, 2008
Q&A with James MacDonald
Straight Up Conference
October 7, 2008
Extravagant Devotion
Mark 14:1–11
20/20 Collegiate Conference
February 6, 2009
Death
Mark 15:33–39
Next Conference
May 25, 2009
August 27, 2009 by Tony Reinke
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Several times over the past few months, David Powlison has appeared on this blog. These appearances include a written interview about life and ministry (four parts), his thoughts on the value of literature (two parts), and five audio interviews of various lengths. To keep it all straight, here’s an index:
Meet David Powlison—
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Part 1
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Part 2
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Part 3
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Part 4
On literature—
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Part 1: Pastoral Literature
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Part 2: Dark Realism
Audio recordings—
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A Narrated Bibliography with David Powlison (56-min audio)
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Good Advice vs. Good News (5-min audio)
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Cravings and Conflict (7-min audio)
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What Is Real vs. What I Feel (6-min audio)
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The Value of Personal Emotion (5-min audio)

Here’s the fourth and final installment in our “five minutes with David Powlison” series. The first three are available
here,
here, and
here.
I asked David to elaborate on this quote:
Wise living involves alertness to experience and emotion. The goal of such self-awareness is not introspective self-preoccupation. Such awareness is rather a matter of integrity and honesty. It is meant to lead you to those twin radical “extrospections”: faith and love.
—Seeing with New Eyes (P&R, 2003), p. 221.
To hear David expand on this quote, download the 5-minute audio recording
here (4.4 MB) or listen online:
Here’s the third installment third installment in our “five minutes with David Powlison” series. The first two installments are available here and here.
I asked David to elaborate on this excellent quote:
A biblical understanding of “feelings” lets us look behind the often deceptive language of daily life.
—Seeing with New Eyes (P&R, 2003), p. 43.
To hear David expand on this quote, download the 5-minute audio recording here (4.7 MB) or listen online:

Here’s the second installment in our “five minutes with David Powlison” series (you can access the first one
here).
I asked David to elaborate on this quote:
I have yet to meet a couple locked in hostility (and the accompanying fear, self-pity, hurt, self-righteousness) who really understood and reckoned with their motives. James 4:1–3 teaches that cravings underlie conflicts. Why do you fight? It’s not “because of my wife/husband…”—it’s because of something about you. Couples who see what rules them—cravings for affection, attention, power, vindication, control, comfort, a hassle-free life—can repent and find God’s grace made real to them, and then learn how to make peace.
—Seeing with New Eyes (P&R, 2003), p. 151.
To hear David expand on this quote, download the 7-minute audio recording
here (5.9 MB) or listen online:
I could listen to my friend David Powlison for hours and not lose interest for even a second. The man is one of the wisest men I know and he seems to never repeat himself. His deployment of language is unique and when I am with him it seems I cannot take notes fast enough.
So in May, while David was in town teaching at our Pastors College, I sat down with him in the recording studio. First, we talked about six of the resources he’s produced (that interview is in last Thursday’s post). Then I asked David to elaborate on four quotes from his writings that have each impacted my life and teaching over the years. We’ll call it “five minutes with David Powlison.”
Over the next few days I’ll post these four brief but rich recordings. There is a wealth of wisdom in each of them.
In the first recording I asked David to elaborate on this excellent quote:
Don’t ever degenerate into giving advice unconnected to the good news of Jesus crucified, alive, present, at work, and returning.
—Seeing with New Eyes (P&R, 2003), p. 43.
To hear what David had to say, download the four-minute audio recording here (3.8 MB) or listen online here:
No one has taught me more about applying the gospel to my heart in the midst of daily life than my friend David Powlison. I have benefited from dozens of outstanding journal articles he has written, from the books he has authored, and from the courses he has taught.
In May I sat down with David in the Sovereign Grace studio to discuss a short list of my favorites from among his resources. The result is an hour-long narrated bibliography of sorts.
We talked about life, his decorated athletic career at Harvard, the New York Yankees, the outrageous cost of dissertations, and some communication theory. But mostly I wanted David to explain the origin and purpose of six specific resources: two conference messages, a course, two books, and his dissertation.
You can download the 56-minute interview here (45 MB), or listen online here:
Featured resources:
• Message: “Jesus Christ Is NOT One-Size Fits All” on 1 Thessalonians 5:14, delivered at Sovereign Grace Ministries’ 2004 Pastors Conference. This message was later developed into an article, “Familial Counseling: The Paradigm for Counselor-Counselee Relationships in 1 Thessalonians 5” (The Journal of Biblical Counseling, Winter 2007).
• Message: “In the Last Analysis: Look Out for Introspection” Delivered at our 2007 Pastors Conference.
• Course: Dynamics of Biblical Change. The 1996 version is available as a set of 22 audio CDs from Westminster Bookstore. The distance education curriculum edition created in 2006 can be accessed through the website of the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation.
• Book: Seeing with New Eyes: Counseling and the Human Condition through the Lens of Scripture (274 pgs; P&R, 2003).
• Book: Speaking Truth in Love: Counsel in Community (203 pgs; New Growth, 2005).
• Dissertation: Competent to Counsel? The History of a Conservative Protestant Biblical Counseling Movement (500 pgs; New Growth, 1996), re-published as The Biblical Counseling Movement: History and Context (New Growth, 2010).