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
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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
Andreas Kostenberger’s book
I was very grateful to receive a copy of Dr. Kostenberger's book God, Marriage, and Family: Rebuilding the Biblical Foundation in the mail this week. From my brief perusal of the work thus far and my reading some of the endorsements offered by J.I. Packer, John Piper, Kent Hughes, Mary Kassian, Mark Dever, Russell Moore, Gordon Hugenberger, Wayne Grudem, Daniel Block, Paige Patterson, Ligon Duncan III, Bruce Ware, Tom Elliff, Robert Yarbough, Tom Schreiner, Randy Stinson, Bob Baker, and Richard Hove, I can already tell this is a book I wish I had read when it came out in 2004. The breadth … [Read more...] about Andreas Kostenberger’s book
Recent comments on this blog
Dear Readers, I want to apologize for taking a couple of days to post your comments. I was not being rude; I simply was not aware that you had posted a comment awaiting my moderation. Normally, I am informed via an automatic e-mail. It didn't happen for the last two days since I posted an Open Letter to Dr. Kostenberger (which he has graciously replied to in a comment). Thankfully, it now appears to be working again. Thank you for your patience. Just a reminder, let's try to demonstrate civility even when we disagree. That way, we can all be edified by dialogue over thorny … [Read more...] about Recent comments on this blog
Open Letter to Andreas Köstenberger
Dear Dr. Köstenberger, I appreciate your desire to avoid heaping judgment on singles who are fruitfully serving the Lord and enjoying what is (perhaps) merely a season of singleness. And I agree with you that many singles marry later in our culture for entirely justifiable reasons (for example, our increasingly knowledge-based economy encourages more years of study, both at the collegiate and post-collegiate level). Please forgive me that I have not read your book. Given my family budget, I simply cannot justify the purchase (and sadly many good books fall into this category!). So my … [Read more...] about Open Letter to Andreas Köstenberger
Köstenberger responds to Maken
Dr. Andreas Köstenberger responds to Debbie Maken's post. (HT: Justin Taylor) … [Read more...] about Köstenberger responds to Maken