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Gospel Kindle Deals – Weekend Update

18 Saturday May 2013

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Running List of the Best Gospel Kindle Book Deals of the Week. Just click on the book title, and it will link you to Amazon. Most of these deals are U.S. only as far as I know, and they could end at any time.

Tim Keller Books
The Great Enemy - $1.99 - New Release
The Scriptures Testify About Me - $8.87 – New Release
The Two Advocates – $1.99 – Available for Pre-Order – Releases June 11
Walking with God through Pain and Suffering - $12.99
Available for Pre-Order – Releases October 1
The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness – $0.99

Commentaries/Resources 
The NIV Application Commentary Series – $4.99 or less each 
Holman QuickSource Guide to Christian Apologetics – $2.99 – New Deal
Holman QuickSource Guide to Understanding Jesus – $2.99 – New Deal
Holman QuickSource Guide to the Dead Sea Scrolls – $2.99 – New Deal
Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary - $4.74 - New Deal
Holman Illustrated Guide to Biblical History – $4.99 – New Deal
Gilbert, Packer, & Ortlund - James: A Twelve Week Study - $2.99 – New Deal
Bruce Shelley - Church History in Plain Language - $4.99
Leadership and Self-Deception – $2.99 - New Deal

John Piper Books
Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God - $4.61
When the Darkness Will Not Lift – $4.61
Jesus: The Only Way to God – $4.61

Other Books of Interest
9Marks Journals - $0.99 each
J.D. Greear - Gospel – $3.99
Matt Chandler – Creature of the Word - $3.99
Tim Kerr – Take Words With You – $2.99
Andreas Kostenberger – God, Marriage, and Family - $4.61
Mitchell Chase – Behold Our Sovereign God- $2.99
Paul Tripp – Broken-Down House - $1.99
Ruth Younts – Get Wisdom - $1.99
Alister McGrath - Mere Apologetics - $4.99
Elyse Fitzpatrick – Comforts from Romans - $3.99
Carolyn Mahaney – Feminine Appeal - $3.99 
Nanci and Randy Alcorn – Help for Women Under Stress – $3.99 
Paul Copan – How Do You Know You’re Not Wrong? - $3.49 – New Deal
John Stott – Basic Christianity – $3.60 – New Deal
Bryan Chapell – Praying Backwards – $1.99 – New Deal
J.I. Packer – Affirming the Apostles’ Creed – $2.99 – New Deal
J.I. Packer - Growing in Christ - $3.99 – New Deal

 

Paperback Deal
Josh Harris – Dug Down Deep - $6.00 

 

 

 

Purifying Your Heart with the Gospel

13 Monday May 2013

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Here’s how you know you’ve purified your heart with the gospel. You love other Christians without deceit, without hypocrisy, without envy, and without slander of any kind. That’s how you know. Let me put it a couple of ways. The reason love is the acid test of whether or not you believe the gospel is it is very possible to have both doctrinal purity and moral scrupulosity for other motivations and out of other forces besides the gospel.

It’s quite possible to be moral out of tradition, out of nostalgia, out of loyalty to your family, out of temperament, out of fastidiousness of conscience. There are all kinds of ways in which you could look at a person who’s very moral, and a person could say, ‘Well that proves that person is a Christian. That person really understands the message of Christianity.’ What Peter is saying here, and what the Bible says is no. A loving spirit is a far better acid test of whether you understand the gospel than moral scrupulosity.

- Tim Keller

 

The Claims of Jesus

10 Friday May 2013

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The reason Jesus Christ has to argue, and the reason we have to show him arguing, is that not only in the Bible but ever since (and we all see it), when people come to Jesus Christ, they read his statements, they read his life, and they always try to take them and pour them into their existing assumptions about reality.

So people say, ‘Yes, Jesus Christ … basically he said what all the religions say: it’s all about love.’ Or, ‘Yes, Jesus Christ … basically he’s saying what all the philosophers have said: it’s really about living an unselfish life. It’s really about leading a life of character.’ Jesus Christ continually comes and says, ‘No, no, no. No one has ever said what I’m saying. No one has ever claimed the things I’m claiming.’

What he’s saying continually in here is ‘I demand you listen to me. I do not come into anybody’s live to revise or supplement or add to your current worldview. I come in to blast out all of your foundational assumptions. I demand to be the thing through which you see everything. I’m here to open up new vistas, new realms of knowledge. I’m here to explode your paradigms.’

- Tim Keller

 

Who Can Tell Us?

06 Monday May 2013

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Do we think somehow we have arrived today, that the popular opinions and values of our time are not going to look just as ridiculous in 100 years or so to other people? Who can tell us what is right, what is noble, and what is good? The answer is nobody, unless there is somebody outside of us and above us and outside of time who can come and tell us what is good and noble and true.

- Tim Keller

*Words found in Tim Keller’s sermon, “Overflowing Joy” – 1990.

The Privilege of Prayer

03 Friday May 2013

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The Bible says because Jesus is your High Priest, because he stands before the Father, because God sees him when he deals with you, you can always draw near. Your privilege of prayer is one of those gift certificates. It has nothing to do with what kind of a week you’ve had.

- Tim Keller

No End to Gospel Exploration

01 Wednesday May 2013

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One of the most startling passages in the Bible connects the magnificence of angels with the mystery of the gospel.

Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care….It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.
- 1 Peter 1:10-12

Although angels are incredibly majestic and powerful beings living in God’s eternal presence, there’s something that has happened on earth which is so stupendous that even these immortal beings experience the persistent longing “to look into these things.” What are “these things” that could possibly and consistently consume the attention of God-fixated creatures?

The Gospel.

The angels never get tired of looking into the gospel. This means there is no end to gospel exploration. There are depths in the gospel that are always there to be discovered and applied, not only to our ministry and daily Christian life, but above all, to the worship of the God of the gospel with renewed vision and humility.

- Tim Keller

Everything For Your Good

29 Monday Apr 2013

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God is so great that he works out a plan, a plan to work everything out for your good if you belong to him, and his glory, which takes into consideration your choices, and still works his plan out infallibly.

Jacob lied to his father, Isaac, and wanted his birthright. He cheated his older brother out of it. Because he cheated, because he lied, he had to flee from his family. Was he guilty? Yes. Did he experience pain in his life because of that choice? Yes. Was he punished for it? Yes. But because he sinned he went and found his wife, Rachel, through whom the Messiah came. Was it all right then that he sinned?

No, but don’t you see because Jacob sinned, though God held him responsible for that choice, did that put him on an eternal plan B? Did he say, ‘I’ve ruined it from now on because of this sin. God will never give me the best?’ My friends, no. When he sinned he went into the best for him. God is far greater than your stupid choices.

- Tim Keller

*Words found in Tim Keller’s Sermon, “Christ Our Head”, 1989.

One Foot in the Trap

24 Wednesday Apr 2013

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How do you know that money isn’t just money to you? Here are some of the signs. You can’t give large amounts of it away. You get scared if you might have less than you’re accustomed to having. You see people who are doing better than you, even though you might have worked harder or might be a better person, and it gets under your skin. And when that happens, you have one foot in the trap. Because then it’s no longer just a tool; it’s the scorecard. It’s your essence, your identity. No matter how much money you have, though it’s not intrinsically evil, it has incredible power to keep you from God.

- Tim Keller