Free Kindle eBooks: Warren Wiersbe’s Bible Study Series: Luke 1-13: Let the World Know That Jesus Cares; Nip Ripken’s The Insanity of God; and John Calvin: A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine and Doxology.
Free Logos eBook for the month of October: Archibald Robertson’s Paul, The Interpreter of Christ.
Tim Challies on A.W. Tozer’s seemingly irreconcilable opposites:
Let every student be plainly instructed, and earnestly pressed to consider well [that the] maine end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ… and therefore to lay Christ in the bottome, as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and training.
David Platt’s foreword to Nik Ripken’s The Insanity of God:
The Great Commission will one day be complete. One day, disciples will have been made and churches will have been multiplied in every nation and among every people group on the planet. Thousands of these people groups remain unreached today, but one day (hopefully soon), they will be reached. In the words of Jesus, “This gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations” (Matt. 24:14).
What Satan put into the heads of our remote ancestors was the idea that they could ‘be like gods’—could set up on their own as if they had created themselves—be their own masters—invent some sort of happiness for themselves outside God, apart from God. And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
CS Lewis, Mere Christianity
For a limited time, Tullian Tchividjian’s book GLORIOUS RUIN: How Suffering Sets You Free is free at Amazon today. From the book cover:
This is not so much a book about why God allows suffering or even How we should approach suffering—it is a book about the tremendously liberating and gloriously counterintuitive truth of a God who suffers with you and for you. It is a book, in other words, about the kind of hope that takes the shape of a cross.
Chris Evans’ FRUIT AT WORK: Mixing Christian Virtues with Business is also free for a limited time.
Fruit at Work is for people at any level of employment who seek a spiritual life that resonates not only in their personal lives, but also in their work. Evans provides guidance for tough situations such as managerial decisions, the need for approval, patience with coworkers, job loss, distraction, team dynamics, and job satisfaction. Here is a new vision for work relationships—one based in love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right. This is common sense, really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly: while you are making them you cannot see them. You can understand the nature of drunkenness when you are sober, not when you are drunk. Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.
CS Lewis, Mere Christianity
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