It is becoming more common for Christian publishers to put books on-line to make them more generally available to readers. For example, God is the Gospel, by John Piper, comes with a free PDF upon purchase (if you buy it from Crossway). Another example of an even more generous offer is Wayne Grudem's wonderful (and massive) tome Evangelical Feminism and Biblical Truth. It is available in its entirety for free as a PDF courtesy Multnomah. Tonight I learned that Andy Farmer's excellent book The Rich Single Life is available as a free PDF. Andy is a pastor at Covenant Fellowship Church in … [Read more...] about Yet another free (on-line) book
Amazing Hurricane Photos – But, yes, we are in Kansas
Perhaps someone e-mailed you photos recently in light of the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Here's a link to some photos someone sent me, which are extremely impressive, but turn out not to be authentic Hurricane Katrina photos, but rather typical shots of intense tornados in Nebraska and Kansas. (Click on the images to enlarge them.) (HT: Paul Chara) … [Read more...] about Amazing Hurricane Photos – But, yes, we are in Kansas
Free Stuff
Tim Challies a la carte today highlights some free music and a free book: 1. Jars of Clay latest album is available as free streaming audio either here or here (the second may be more appropriate for FireFox). 2. The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association is giving away John Piper's book Don't Waste Your Life. Justin Taylor adds: "You can only request one copy online, but if you want a few more than that, you can call 1-877-2GRAHAM. (It'd be nice to offer a small donation to help cover the cost of shipping if you do that.) After September 30 it will be off the website, but you can still … [Read more...] about Free Stuff
Directory of Reformed Conferences
If you haven't seen it yet, Tim Challies has put together a great Directory of Reformed Conferences for 2007, with a look ahead to 2008 as well. … [Read more...] about Directory of Reformed Conferences
The Atonement and Marriage
Speaking of the benefits of marriage, here is an outstanding reflection from Pastor Ligon Duncan on the connection between Christ's substitutionary death on a cross and Paul's injunction (in Ephesians 5) that husbands love their wives as Christ loved the church. … [Read more...] about The Atonement and Marriage
Vocation Day
Gene Veith invites us to join the historic Christian tradition of co-opting pagan holidays by giving them Christian meaning. Veith suggests we transform "Labor Day" into Vocation Day in observance of the Doctrine of Vocation: God has called us to our work, as a means of love and service to our neighbors. And He works through our callings to provide daily bread to all of His creation. And we are to live out our Christian faith in our various callings--in our work, yes, but also in our family vocations and in our cultural vocations. So getting a little break from work, having a cook out with our … [Read more...] about Vocation Day