Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2010 Deals for Christians

Black Friday has come and gone but Cyber Monday still offers an opportunity to save some money on online purchases. Here are some of the deals I’ve found:

 

Amazon

Amazon has all kinds of deals on all kinds of items. Some of the deals come and go very quickly, so keep an eye on the site. Note that most of the product categories have their own deals listed, besides the main deals page I’ve linked here:

  • Cyber Monday deals
  • It’s not a bad idea to keep an eye on the Gold Box deal. For now it’s a TV, but it may change later in the day.

Two things to note about Amazon deals. First, note that you can use the category dropdown to see all the deals in a specific category. Then note that the page lists available deals and ones that will be coming soon. There is a countdown timer beneath each of these listings to tell you when specific products will go on sale. You may need to be fast on some of them.

 

Centricity Music

Centricity Music is offering all of their albums (downloadable versions) at just $3.99 from Friday until Monday. I particularly recommend:

 

Christian Book Distributors & CBD Reformed

CBD and CBD Reformed are offering deals for both Black Friday and Cyber Monday. A few highlights:

To find other deals, visit any of the links above and then look to the sidebar on the left of the screen. There you can sort by the amount of the discount being offered. You’ll find a few good bargains if you click around.

 

ChristianAudio

ChristianAudio is offering 2 great books at just $2.98 each:

  • Wrestling with an Angel by Greg Lucas
  • Just Do Something by Kevin DeYoung

While you’re there (and if you haven’t done so yet) be sure to download John Piper’s Don’t Waste Your Life (which is free until the end of the month) and check out the twice-yearly sale which features most of the books on the site for $7.49.

 

Getty Music

Getty Music has 3 gift packs, each of which includes several CDs and/or DVDs at reduced prices. If you use the coupon code Christmas10 you can get a further 10% off. The middle pack, with 2 Getty albums and a Townend album, is probably the best one.

 

Good Book Company

The Good Book Company is offering 25% off everything on their site from 5am on Friday until Midnight on Monday. Just visit the site to take advantage of the deal as the discount has already been applied.

 

Grace & Truth Books

Grace & Truth Books is having a weekend-long sale featuring discounts on several sets and a wide variety of books.

 

Ligonier Ministries

Ligonier Ministries is offering a list of products at a very steep discount. You can find books, teaching series, Bibles, etc.

 

Logos

Logos has an interesting special going on. You’ll have to visit their site to get the details, but essentially you can submit three products to them and ask for a discount. They’ll then get back to you with the prices they can offer you. Sounds like a neat idea.

 

Matthias Media

Matthias Media has an interesting deal. They have 7 books at $5 each, but you need to buy at least 3 to get them at that price (you can buy up to all 7 if you want). The list includes the ministry must-have The Trellis and the Vine. You’ll get free shipping if your order total exceeds $60.

 

Monergism Books

Monergism Books is offering several Black Friday deals. Also, you can use coupon code blackfriday2010 to take 10% off your order if your total is $50 or more. That coupon code is good until Saturday at 11:59 PM.

 

New Growth Press

New Growth Press will be offering a special deal on Cyber Monday. They are doing 2 for 1 on their new bestselling devotional book Long Story Short.

 

Reformation Heritage Books

Reformation Heritage Books is offering a long list of books, most of which are priced at $10. Some of these deals are really good, some not quite so much, so you may want to price compare a little.

 

Seeds Family Worship

Seeds Family Worship, which sets Scripture to upbeat, fun music, has 30% off their CDs from Friday to Monday. Use the coupon code THANKS30 to take advantage of the deal.

 

Sojourn Music

Sojourn Music is offering all four of their (excellent) CDs for just $20 + $6 shipping. This is a Friday-only deal.

 

Westminster Books

Westminster Books is having a big sale on Cyber Monday. All ESV Bibles are 45% off.

Also, they’ve put a list of my favorite books on sale (5 good biographies, 5 favorites from 2010). Add any of them to your cart and they’ll automatically deduct 10%.

 

If you know of other stores that will be having sales on items that should be of particular interest to Christians, do let me know.

Note: I know some will accuse me of feeding a conusmeristic culture with this post. But as I figure it, this is the time where many of us will be beginning (or completing) our holiday shopping. If there are savings to be had, we may as well take advantage…

Comments (30)

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Anonymous's picture

Thanks a ton! This is a blessing!

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Anonymous's picture

Tim

The family owned and operated Christian bookstore I work for has some really good prices on Bibles this Christmas season! It’s called Scripture Truth Book Company and they’ve been business since 1956. scripturetruth.com is the URL.

Yours,Chris Griffith

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Anonymous's picture

Tim

Do you know of any deals by uk sites?

Grace and Peace

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Anonymous's picture

So, Tim…

How do you feel about “your books” being offered on the cheap. Is it encouraging or discouraging?

Rod

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Anonymous's picture

Shopping isn’t my favorite, so thanks for doing all this work for me, Tim. Btw, if you can find a Wii console for less than $189, please let me know. :)

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Tim's picture

How do you feel about "your books" being offered on the cheap. Is it encouraging or discouraging?

Love it! The deals do not indicate that the books aren’t selling or that the publishers just want to get rid of them!

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Anonymous's picture

While not exactly a Black Friday sale - ok, it’s a ‘Day-after-Cyber-Monday’ sale, I noticed Cumberland Valley has an extra 10% off their books starting 11/30 - 12/01 http://cvbbs.com/

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Anonymous's picture

Here’s another Black Friday/Cyber Monday Deal. Could you please add it Tim?

Clothed With Christ http://www.clothedwithchrist.com

All shirts only $7.99 (No taxes either)

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Anonymous's picture

Thanks!

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Anonymous's picture

Thanks for the great offers and for doing all the research for me. I’m thinking of getting The Trellis and The Archer, but which of the other 5 books from Mattias would you recommend?

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Anonymous's picture

It’s crazy how fast you have to be. I clicked on BUY NOW on the Kindle at exactly the second the timer ran down and I can’t even get into the WAITLIST.

insane.

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Anonymous's picture

Tim, I am a bit disappointed in you promoting Black Friday. What about promoting giving gifts through Wycliffe or World Vision, versus buying more stuff for us who may be “stuffed” so to speak? We have been given much. Much is required from us. We probably don’t need more more more…. p.s. I love your blog and thinking and writing! Black Friday promotions just seem out of place on your blog….

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Anonymous's picture

Mike, perhaps you missed Tim’s note at the bottom of the post addressing comments re: the appropriateness of promoting these deals.

Hopefully these types of deals will encourage people to purchase with the intent to give away. Especially some of the good deals on ESV’s that are being made available.

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Anonymous's picture

I saw the note at the end… My comment stands…

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Anonymous's picture

Oooh! Thanks for the Seeds Family Worship coupon code. Love their Scripture songs.

And… not a Black Friday deal, but throughout the year, the absolutely lowest price for a LEATHER ESV Bible (with study notes) will be found at Ligonier.org. Our boys get their own Bible for their 10th birthday, and after the first boy we realized leather holds up better than anything else. Each time a 10th birthday rolls around, I do my research and each time Ligonier has the best price.

And, Amazon has Sufjan Steven’s holiday cd boxed set (5 cds!) for $14: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000HLDF0O/ref=oss_product

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Anonymous's picture

Hey everyone - dissenter Mike here again. :) I have to apologize that I probably am juxtaposing this post with watching the incredible movie about Dietrich Bonhoeffer last night… And just meditating today on Dietrich’s life & ministry today. (by the way, if anyone reading this hasn’t seen the movie Bonhoeffer yet, you can queue it up on http://movies.netflix.com/Movie/Bonhoeffer/60029227 - yes, I do participate in capitalism.. :) I guess this movie just reminded me of how quickly evil can rise - Hitler in 10 years rose - and how we as the church need to not become too comfortably numb… So, somehow Black Friday just stands in stark contrast to Bonhoeffer’s life to me today… The Cost of Discipleship vs. Black Friday…. I pray for Discipleship for the Confessing Church…. Blessings! Mike

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Tim's picture

Tim, I am a bit disappointed in you promoting Black Friday. What about promoting giving gifts through Wycliffe or World Vision, versus buying more stuff for us who may be "stuffed" so to speak? We have been given much. Much is required from us. We probably don't need more more more.... p.s. I love your blog and thinking and writing! Black Friday promotions just seem out of place on your blog....

Mike - I think this is a bit of a no-win kind of argument for me. I am assuming that the people who visit this site are giving to their church and/or other good causes on a regular basis. Yet I assume people are also buying gifts for Christmas. I believe God gives us money to use wisely, giving part away and enjoying another part by buying things for one another or even buying things for ourselves.

You may note that almost all of the products I’ve listed have some spiritual value. Maybe that will make you feel better. A lot of people will be seeing the $5 items at Ligonier and stocking up on items for friends, family members, church libraries and so on.

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Anonymous's picture

Right on! Must keep tissue box close by to clean up drool.

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Anonymous's picture

Oooh! One of my fave homeschool suppliers is having a good sale, too:http://www.timberdoodle.com/category_s/417.htm

Unfortunately, the greatly discounted lightwedge (which I’ve wanted for years) is already sold out. . .

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Anonymous's picture

Lanae Hale’s Back & Forth is THE must-have from the centricity catalog!

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Anonymous's picture

Peru Paper has some deals.

Grace is a friend of mine and is doing amazing work with the women in Peru.

http://myfoxymail.com/display.php?M=20705&C=8f4d10db7bfa506a03a8c487f3d0…

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Anonymous's picture

You might want to take a look at Andy Andrew’s site also. His complete package—33 items— is on sale for half price.

http://www.andyandrews.com/store/special-packages/product/ultimate-andy-…

Complete Andy Andrews Package

The complete Andy Andrews package includes 15 Books, 15 CDs, 3 DVDs and 8 accessories. The total retail value of all Andy Andrews products is $1,262 but for a limited time all Andy Anderws books also come autogragphed*! That’s an additional savings of $45 bringing the grand total of this package to more than $1,300!

Plus this package qualifies for FREE shipping.

Take advantage of this incredible offer to own everything Andy Andrews at this one-time price.

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Anonymous's picture

thanks for the great list! I just tried using the coupon for Seeds Family Worship (we love them), but it says it’s expired … any updates on that?

Also, I’m having a little Cyber Monday deal of my own on my Scripture art - 20% off everything with code THANKFUL10

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Anonymous's picture

If you’re an Accordance user like me, you’ll want to know about their December sales: http://www.accordancebible.com/Products/December10-Sale/

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Anonymous's picture

Any word on what the westminster deal is?

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Anonymous's picture

FYI, Amazon has a lower price on the ESV study Bible than ChristianBook.com.

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Anonymous's picture

Is the Westminster sale only the ESV bibles or will they put other books on sale?

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Anonymous's picture

Allen,

The Westminster Books sale is on every ESV Bible published by Crossway (along with the Reformation Study Bibles published by P&R/Ligonier). They are being offered at 45% off for one-week, which is the lowest price you’ll find.

Orders over $35 ship via UPS Ground for only $1. Also, if you place your order before 3:00pm EST it will ship same-day.

Enjoy!

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Anonymous's picture

Aw shucks, just ordered an ESV study bible on CBD, then I scrolled down on your post further and found that Westminster offered same bible cheaper! Sorry, Westminster and myself…. :(

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Anonymous's picture

And WTSBooks will sometime again offer ESVs at 45% off. I picked up a Children’s bible last night.