Free Kindle & Cheap Audiobook Deal: Jesus in the Present Tense

I've found another cheap audiobook deal. I know next to nothing about Warren Wiersbe, but after reading a few reviews of his book Jesus in the Present Tense, I think he's worth checking out. His book is about the seven "I AM" statements of Christ in the Gospel of John. It sounds like a good read. And now the Kindle version is free through March 1. And since this book has an audio version as well, you can get the audiobook for $3.99 if you "buy" the free Kindle version. Even if you're not sure that you want to buy the audio version, you should still snatch up the Kindle version before this deal goes away.

Note: The audiobook will work with your Kindle device, but can also be downloaded to your computer and added to your mp3 player.

Cheap Audiobook (Limited time)

Did you enjoy the movie Courageous? Did you know that Randy Alcorn wrote a novelization of the movie? For a limited time the Kindle version is free on Amazon.com, and when you buy the Kindle version of select titles, you can get the audiobook at a discounted rate. In this case, if you buy the FREE Kindle version of Courageous, you can get the audiobook for $3.95. The audiobook will work with your Kindle device, but can also be downloaded to your computer and added to your mp3 player.

These kinds of deals don't come around often, and this one definitely won't be around for long.

Free eBook in Time for Reformation Day!

Today, October 31, is best known as Halloween. Yet on this very day in 1517, an Augustinian monk nailed a document to the church door in Wittenberg calling for public debate of 95 issues of doctrine and church practice. At the time Martin Luther did not know that he would be excommunicated from the church or that his act would be the starting point of a great reformation of the Christian faith.

John Piper’s ministry, Desiring God, has just released a short biography (41 pages) of Luther that could easily be read in one sitting. Given that today, October 31, 2012, marks the 495^th anniversary of Luther’s nailing the 95 theses on the door of the Wittenberg cathedral, this book is very timely. I highly recommend learning about Luther and the Protestant Reformation since we have benefitted from and built on so much of what they discovered and taught from the Bible.

Here’s a selection from the original blog post on Desiring God:

Originally delivered as the biographical message at the 1995 Conference for Pastors, this new ebook features five chapters that present a sketch of Luther's life and distill relevant lessons for not only pastors and leaders, but all Christians.
 To download Martin Luther: Lessons from His Life and Labor, click on the following format options:Download ebook as a PDF file.Download ebook as an EPUB file formatted for readers like the Nook, Sony Reader, and Apple iBooks (iPad, iPhone, iPod).Download ebook as a MOBI file formatted for Kindle applications (this option works well on some mobile devices, and not so well on others).

CredoMag Giveaway and Other Links

I’ve come across a few links recently that I thought I should share:

CredoMag is doing a giveaway each Monday up until the release of its first issue. This week they’re giving away three commentaries on Matthew, Galatians, and Ephesians. Definitely worth trying to get! I will be reviewing John Piper’s book Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian for CredoMag in the coming months.

There was a helpful article on the Gospel Coalition blog highlighting some helpful seminary-level lectures available online as free downloads. I’ve listened to the ones by D.A. Carson, but the others look great as well.

John Piper’s most recent sermon takes a powerful look at the death and resurrection of Lazarus in a way you might not have considered before. If you only follow one link, follow this one.

David Rogers, a fellow writer over at sbcIMPACT! has written a good review of the book What is the Mission of the Church? by Kevin DeYoung and Greg Gilbert. I’ve written short reviews of each author’s work before, but Rogers’ is a little more substantive.

Finally, here’s a neat promotional video for a sermon series that just started at a church in Florida. It’s in Spanish, you can feel the buildup.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

I’ve been finding lately that I thoroughly enjoy Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories about Sherlock Holmes. I recently picked up the audiobook version of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and I’ve been listening to story after story, a little bit each day.

I was already familiar with Doyle’s works, first by listening to a Librivox recording of The Lost World, and then enjoying The Sign of the Four and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Aside from four complete novels, most of the Sherlock Holmes stories are self-contained and rather short. This makes for quick and easy reading, and I never tire of the interesting ways in which Holmes solves the case (or occasionally gets it wrong).

When the recent Sherlock Holmes movie starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law came out I was tickled by many of the smaller plot elements and quotations taken from stories I had already read. No doubt the sequel coming out this December will draw from language and plot points in the stories as well.

The best thing is that all of the Holmes stories have passed out of copyright protection. Go online to GoogleBooks or check out Librivox and you can read or listen to any of the sixty stories written by Doyle about Sherlock Holmes.