Free Audio Book by J.I. Packer

Free Audiobook of the Month: J.I. Packer’s “Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God”

Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God by J.I. Packer is the free audiobook of the month for May. God is sovereign, can Christians sit back and not bother to evangelize? Or does active evangelism imply that God is not really sovereign at all? What is an antinomy? This classic audiobook by J.I. Packer clarifies the sovereignty of God, the responsibility of man, and the heart of God to seek and save the lost. - See more at: http://christianaudio.com/free#sthash.C0Py6Nx6.dpuf

Did you notice the word FREE! What are you waiting for?

When Helping Hurts - Free Audio Book

Free AudioBook of the Month: “When Helping Hurts” 

Here’s a description:

With more than 225,000 copies sold, When Helping Hurts is a paradigm-forming contemporary classic on the subject of poverty alleviation and ministry to those in need. Emphasizing the poverty of both heart and society, this book exposes the need that every person has and how it can be filled. The reader is brought to understand that poverty is much more than simply a lack of financial or material resources and that it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve the problem of poverty.

While this book exposes past and current development efforts that churches have engaged in which unintentionally undermine the people they’re trying to help, its central point is to provide proven strategies that challenge Christians to help the poor empower themselves. Focusing on both North American and Majority World contexts, When Helping Hurts catalyzes the idea that sustainable change for people living in poverty comes not from the outside-in, but from the inside-out.

Did you notice the word "FREE"!

HT Justin Taylor 

Hearing God: Free Audio Book

ChristianAudio.Com's free audio book of the month is Dallas Willards's Hearing God:

"God spoke to me."
"The Spirit spoke to my heart."
"God revealed the idea to me."

Being close to God means communicating with him--telling him what is on our hearts in prayer and hearing and understanding what he is saying to us. It is this second half of our conversation with God that is so important but that can also be so difficult. How do we hear his voice? How can we be sure that what we think we hear is not our own subconscious? What role does the Bible play? What if what God says to us is not clear?

The key, says best-selling author Dallas Willard, is to focus not so much on individual actions and decisions as on building our personal relationship with our Creator. In this updated classic, originally published as In Search of Guidance, the author provides rich spiritual insight into how we can hear God's voice clearly and develop an intimate partnership with him in the work of his kingdom.

Did I mention that it is FREE?!

Free Tullian Books at Crossway

Crossway Books has a drawing for free copies of two of Tullian Tchvidjian's best books: Surprised by Grace and Jesus + Nothing = Everything. I have read and own copies of both, and have posted about them both on this blog - excellent reads. 

To enter the drawing  go here. They also published this list of Tullian's Twitter feeds. Enjoy!

• “The power of the gospel is just as necessary and relevant after you become a Christian as it is before.” #jpne http://cway.to/GTqKuR
• “Typically, it’s not that Christians seek to blatantly replace the gospel. What we try to do is add to it.” #jpne http://cway.to/GTqKuR
• “Legalism happens when what we need to do, not what Jesus has already done, becomes the end game.” #jpne http://cway.to/GTqKuR
• “Our performancism leads to pride when we succeed & despair when we fail, but ultimately it leads to slavery.” #jpne http://cway.to/GTqKuR
• “We know God hates bad works; we’re not nearly so convinced that he also hates self-righteous “good” works.” #jpne http://cway.to/GTqKuR
• “Self-righteousness can lead only to the robbery of freedom.” #jpne http://cway.to/GTqKuR
• “Disobedience happens not when we think too much of grace, but when we think too little of it.” #jpne http://cway.to/GTqKuR
• “We’re always to soak first in what God has already done before we set out to do.” #jpne http://cway.to/GTqKuR
• “Only the gospel can free us from the enslaving pressure to defend ourselves.” #jpne http://cway.to/GTqKuR
• “Our ultimate problem is not indifference to God, but idolatry.” #jpne http://cway.to/GTqKuR
• “Christian growth doesn’t happen by first behaving better, but by believing better.” #jpne http://cway.to/GTqKuR
• “We’re liberated by the recognition that God loves us in order to make us lovely, not because we are lovely.” #jpne http://cway.to/GTqKuR
• “What licentious people need is a greater understanding of grace, not a governor on grace.” #jpne http://cway.to/GTqKuR
• “We need to make it clear that Jesus came first not to make bad people good, but to make dead people alive.” #jpne http://cway.to/GTqKuR
• “The primary goal of the gospel is to bring about mortal resurrection, not moral reformation.” #jpne http://cway.to/GTqKuR
• “The gospel of amazing grace gets us in, keeps us in, and will eventually get us to the finish line.” #jpne http://cway.to/GTqKuR
• Preoccupation with our effort instead of with God’s effort for us makes us self-centered and introspective. #jpne http://cway.to/GTqKuR
• Because our self-imposed rules make us feel safe and self-pleased, they become a counterfeit God. #jpne http://cway.to/GTqKuR

Free Book: Journeys of Faith

There's a give away drawing at Kononia blog today for a free copy of an interesting  new book titled  Journeys of Faith.

Journeys of Faith tells the stories of Evangelicals who have converted to Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Anglicanism, as well as members of those traditions who have joined Evangelicalism. After each story, a representative of the tradition that was left responds by defending their choice to stay faithful to that tradition.

Contributors include Wilbur Ellsworth (Eastern Orthodoxy), with a response by Craig Blaising; Francis J. Beckwith (Roman Catholicism), with Gregg Allison responding; Chris Castaldo (Evangelicalism) and Brad Gregory’s Catholic response; and Lyle Dorsett (Anglicanism), with a response by Robert Peterson.

The average American will change religious affiliations at least once in their life, which makes this is an important phenomenon for pastors, scholars, and all people of faith to understand. Personally, I know a number of people who have considered a move to more liturgical traditions, and the stories recounted in Journeys of Faith have proved a great place to start in better understanding the reasons for the decisions they made.

I entered, and would love to win a copy. Check it out for yourself at the link above.

October Book Giveaway from Crossway Books

Zach Nielsen has a free drawing hosted at his blog giving a way two new titles from Crossway Books! The two are Jared Wilson's, Gospel Wakefulness and Tullian Tchividjian's, Jesus + Nothing = Everything, both high on my personal wish list.

You can enter a the link above - and you can be sure that I already have.

Free eBook: The Cloud of Unknowing

eChristian.Com is offering a free download in electronic book format of the classic devotional work The Cloud of Unknowing :

Some things never change, including the human need to connect with our creator. Prayer and meditation on the divine are techniques that have been used for millennia to grow in the knowledge of God. Cloud of Unknowing documents techniques used by the medieval monastic community to build and maintain that contemplative knowledge of God.

Scholars date the anonymous authorship of Cloud of Unknowing to 1375, during the height of European monasticism. Written as a primer for the young monastic, the work is instructional, but does not have an austere didactic tone. Rather, the work embraces the reader with a maternal call to grow closer to God through meditation and prayer.

This eBook is in the Public Domain, has been pulled from CCEL, and is distributed for free on eChristian.com in accordance with their license requirements.

Did I mention that it is FREE. All you users of Kindle, Nook or other electronic readers should jump at this opportunity.

Free Audio Book Download for June

 Christian Audio.com' s free audio book download for June is Joni Eareckson Tada's A Place of Healing

In this eloquent account of her current struggle with physical pain, Joni Eareckson Tada offers her perspective on divine healing, God’s purposes, and what it means to live with joy. Over four decades ago, a diving accident left Joni a quadriplegic. Today, she faces a new battle: unrelenting pain.

The ongoing urgency of this season in her life has caused Joni to return to foundational questions about suffering and God’s will. A Place of Healing is not an ivory tower treatise on suffering. Its an intimate look into the life of a mature woman of God.

Whether readers are enduring physical pain, financial loss, or relational grief, Joni invites them to process their suffering with her. Together, they will navigate the distance between God’s magnificent yes and heartbreaking no and find new hope for thriving in between.

Just go to Free Downloads on christianaudio - Audiobooks, and follow the instructions.

Did I mention that it is FREE! As in NO CHARGE.

Free Audio Download for May

This month's Free Downloads on christianaudio is The Next Story by Tim Challies

Even the least technical among us are being pressed from all sides by advances in digital technology. We rely upon computers, cell phones, and the Internet for communication, commerce, and entertainment. Yet even though we live in this “instant message” culture, many of us feel disconnected, and we question if all this technology is really good for our souls.

In a manner that’s accessible, thoughtful, and biblical, author Tim Challies addresses questions such as:
• How has life—and faith—changed now that everyone is available all the time through mobile phones?
• How does our constant connection to these digital devices affect our families and our church communities?
• What does it mean that almost two billion humans are connected by the Internet … with hundreds of millions more coming online each year?

Providing the reader with a framework they can apply to any technology, Tim Challies explains how and why our society has become reliant on digital technology, what it means for our lives, and how it impacts the Christian faith.

Did you notice I said FREE! You can't beat that price!

Free Downloads of "The Hiding Place"

This month's free download on christianaudio is Corrie ten Boom's The Hiding Place narrated by Bernadette Dunne . Here's the summary of the book from Amazon.

Corrie ten Boom was a woman admired the world over for her courage, her forgiveness, and her memorable faith. In World War II, she and her family risked their lives to help Jews escape the Nazis, and their reward was a trip to Hitler's concentration camps. But she survived and was released--as a result of a clerical error--and now shares the story of how faith triumphs over evil. For thirty-five years Corrie's dramatic life story, full of timeless virtues, has prepared readers to face their own futures with faith, relying on God's love to overcome, heal, and restore. Now releasing in a thirty-fifth anniversary edition for a new generation of readers, The Hiding Place tells the riveting story of how a middle-aged Dutch watchmaker became a heroine of the Resistance, a survivor of Hitler's death camps, and one of the most remarkable evangelists of the twentieth century.

I got to hear Corrie ten Boom speak while I was in college back in 1975 - Amazing story from an amazing woman. If you have never heard or read this classic story of sacrifice and forgiveness, please download it and listen.

Free Audio Book: "Jesus: the Only Way to God" by John Piper

There's that word again - Free Book! Another FREE download (did I mention no charge) of an audio book at ChristianAudio.Com- Jesus: the Only Way to God by John Piper:

"If the evangelical church at large was ever too confrontational in its evangelism, those days are gone. In our shrinking, pluralistic world, the belief that Jesus is the only way of salvation is increasingly called arrogant and even hateful. In the face of this criticism, many shrink back from affirming the global necessity of knowing and believing in Jesus. In Jesus, the Only Way to God, John Piper offers a timely plea for the evangelical church to consider what is at stake in surrendering the unique, universal place of Jesus in salvation.

The price is right: I'm getting my copy!