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Meet John Piper
John Piper does not do a lot of interviews, but he has made an exception for C.J. Mahaney. You can read a brief interview here.
Finally Alive: A Review
Speaking of John Piper, ReformedBooks.net (i.e. Monergism.com) has a review of his new book Finally Alive. “Finally Alive cannot fail to have a dramatic impact on our understanding of what a Christian really is, how we can examine our own hearts to discern if we are truly in the faith, and how we can labor more passionately and effectively for the gospel-accomplishment of regeneration in the hearts of those all around us and across the world who are still dead in trespasses and sins.”
The Reformed Love Books
An excerpt from a forthcoming volume on Calvin. “This bookish contentment distinguishes both Calvin and those who followed after him. Reformed Christians removed all else from their churches in order to direct attention only to the Word, and they cleared all else from their shelves to make room for books.”
Fieldy
According to this forthcoming biography, a second member of the band Korn has become a believer (after Brian “Head” Welch). “By all appearances, Fieldy had the life. But he was on the dark path of excess, alienating friends, families, and loved ones, nearly destroying himself and the band. It took an unexpected tragedy to straighten him out: the death of his father, a born-again Christian, to a mysterious illness.”
MacArthur and Ware Audio
The Nashville Conference on the Church and Theology has made available the keynote addresses by John MacArthur and Bruce Ware.
ESV Loose-Leaf
Henrickson is publishing a loose-leaf ESV Bible. It will be released in May.
Deal of the Day: Right Thinking in a World Gone Wrong
This book by John MacArthur and the staff of Grace Community Church is on sale at Grace Books International. You can get it for $8.99.
John Piper does not do a lot of interviews, but he has made an exception for C.J. Mahaney. You can read a brief interview here.
Finally Alive: A Review
Speaking of John Piper, ReformedBooks.net (i.e. Monergism.com) has a review of his new book Finally Alive. “Finally Alive cannot fail to have a dramatic impact on our understanding of what a Christian really is, how we can examine our own hearts to discern if we are truly in the faith, and how we can labor more passionately and effectively for the gospel-accomplishment of regeneration in the hearts of those all around us and across the world who are still dead in trespasses and sins.”
The Reformed Love Books
An excerpt from a forthcoming volume on Calvin. “This bookish contentment distinguishes both Calvin and those who followed after him. Reformed Christians removed all else from their churches in order to direct attention only to the Word, and they cleared all else from their shelves to make room for books.”
Fieldy
According to this forthcoming biography, a second member of the band Korn has become a believer (after Brian “Head” Welch). “By all appearances, Fieldy had the life. But he was on the dark path of excess, alienating friends, families, and loved ones, nearly destroying himself and the band. It took an unexpected tragedy to straighten him out: the death of his father, a born-again Christian, to a mysterious illness.”
MacArthur and Ware Audio
The Nashville Conference on the Church and Theology has made available the keynote addresses by John MacArthur and Bruce Ware.
ESV Loose-Leaf
Henrickson is publishing a loose-leaf ESV Bible. It will be released in May.
Deal of the Day: Right Thinking in a World Gone Wrong
This book by John MacArthur and the staff of Grace Community Church is on sale at Grace Books International. You can get it for $8.99.
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Comments (11)
The link to the interview with John Piper got blocked by my company’s server as a “Spam URL”. That’s kind of funny.
I’m glad to hear about the loose-leaf ESV coming out. I have wanted to purchase a loose-leaf Bible for a while no, but did not really want the translations currently offered, not that they are not good translations, but my preference it the ESV. Now I can anticipate it coming out in May.
@ JimESV. I’ve never seen a loose leaf Bible before! So I had a look at the link. What’s the advantage of having one? :)
re: Fieldy — “there is joy in the presence of the angels”
Can’t help but think that Brian’s experiences helped convince Fieldy that this was for real.
!@#$ I bought the loose-leaf NIV because just over a year ago Henderson said they’d never produce an ESV.
Mik, a loose-leaf is like a blank Bible without the trouble — you can insert blank pages wherever you need, and the binding never wears out because there isn’t one. It’s not a church Bible, though, because it’s just too darn big.
Imagine if Piper had chosen medicine or teaching literature as a career path…instead of pastoring.
Re Reformers loving books:
Cheap joke, but I must have been “predestined” to be Reformed, because before I gave my life over to Christ, I owned something like a dozen Bibles (or parts thereof) in five different languages already, plus commentaries, devotionals, et alia.
Ironically, my book acquisition habits have actually levelled off since my rebirth in Christ (though for unrelated reasons).
I should properly write small-r “reformed,” rather than big-r “Reformed.”
I’m curious what MacArthur alleges are the correct biblical stances regarding the following, which he addresses in the book:
“Video games”“Internet dating”“Environmentalism”“Illegal immigration and border control”“Faith and the free economic market”
Does he take the typical conservative positions and present them as biblical mandates?
As mentioned the advantage of a loose-leaf Bible is you can insert blank pages to write notes on. As a pastor, the other advantage is I can take the book I am preaching through out and put it in a separate binder and also put all my notes and other research stuff I have gathered up together in one place where I can use it even if my laptop battery is dead.
Tim, I really look forward to reading your a la carte posts - thanks for taking the time to write them.