In the back of my mind I can almost hear that Monty Python guy saying, “And now for something completely different.” This week’s Free Stuff Friday giveaway is definitely a little bit different. The sponsor is 1031 Sermon Jams. 10:31 Sermon Jams was made to bring sermons and music together. They were created to bring life changing truth, and the good news of Jesus Christ to the current culture. According to their web site, they are “Bryan and Caleb, and our mission is to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ to all people. This ministry is based on 1 Corinthians 10:31, ‘So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.’ Our main focus is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ and to make His name famous. Our goal is to take biblically saturated sermons and turn them into mini clips for edification for the household of faith and tracts to unbelievers.” In the past they have combined music with the sermons of pastors such as C.J. Mahaney, Joshua Harris, John Piper and others.

Their newest album is called Don’t Waste Your Life and it has been produced in partnership with Desiring God. Needless to say, this album features John Piper preaching on this theme of not wasting your life. You can hear a track from the album at the 1031 Sermon site.

Five winners will receive a copy of the album along with a 1031 Sermon Jams T-Shirt.

Rules: You may only enter the draw once. Simply fill out your name and email address to enter the draw. As soon as the winners have been chosen, all names and addresses will be immediately and permanently erased. Winners will be notified by email. The giveaway closes Saturday at 10 AM.

With a new Friday comes a new edition of Free Stuff Fridays. This week’s sponsors are White Horse Inn and Modern Reformation. This week five winners will each be sent a prize package that contains:

• Too Good to Be True by Michael Horton (Signed by the author)
• Christless Christianity DVD
• A one-year subscription to Modern Reformation magazine.

Here is what the publisher says about Too Good to Be True: “In a world of hype, we may buy into the idea that through Jesus, we’ll be healthier and wealthier as well as wiser. So what happens when we become ill, or depressed, or bankrupt? Did we do something wrong? Has God abandoned us? As a child, Michael Horton would run up the down escalator, trying to beat it to the top. As Christians, he notes, we sometimes seek God the same way, believing we can climb to him under our own steam. But we can’t, which is why we are blessed that Jesus descends to us, especially during times of trial. In Too Good to Be True, Horton exposes the pop culture that sells Jesus like a product for health and happiness and reminds us that our lives often lead us on difficult routes we must follow by faith. This book offers a series of powerful readings that demonstrate how, through every type of earthly difficulty, our Father keeps his promises from Scripture and works all things together for our good.”

Rules: You may only enter the draw once. Simply fill out your name and email address to enter the draw. As soon as the winners have been chosen, all names and addresses will be immediately and permanently erased. Winners will be notified by email. The giveaway closes tonight at midnight.

A new Friday brings us another occasion to celebrate Free Stuff Fridays. This week’s sponsor is Crossway. They have put together a package of books ideal for a recent (or forthcoming) graduate. But, of course, the draw is open to anyone and ought to benefit whoever reads the books. Five winners will take home a prize package consisting of:

• ESV Study Bible
• Crossroads: Navigating Your Calling and Career by Colin Creel
• The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment by Tim Challies
• No Little People by Francis Schaeffer
• Things That Cannot Be Shaken: Holding Fast to Your Faith in a Relativistic World byK. Scott Oliphint and Rod Mays
• Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper

There are some great books there!

Please note that this week’s giveaway is open only to people who can have the prize shipped to a North American address.

Rules: You may only enter the draw once. Simply fill out your name and email address to enter the draw. As soon as the winners have been chosen, all names and addresses will be immediately and permanently erased. Winners will be notified by email. The giveaway closes tonight at midnight.

Today is Friday and that means it is time for another Free Stuff Fridays. This week’s sponsor is Seeds Family Worship. “Seeds Family Worship was planted when worship leader, Jason Houser, was asked to write some songs to help kids remember the verses from his church’s summer Bible school. Jason began writing songs and singing them for the kids and families at church. The songs were well-crafted, catchy, and taken straight from scripture. Families liked them… a lot. From just a handful of songs, Seeds Family Worship was planted - providing God’s Word set to music for thousands of families all over the world. We are gladdened by stories of worship times at home, scripture memorized, and object lessons taught using Seeds songs. The fifth Seeds Family Worship album - The Power of Encouragement - has just released. In total, Seeds has grown to 58 portions of scripture set to music!”

Each of the albums features a selection of Scripture passages set to music. There is no word in any of the songs that is not directly drawn from the Bible. Like me, you may be a little suspicious of children’s music, tired of music that is substandard. But in this case, the Seeds music is very well done and, by all accounts, the children really enjoy it (I know my children do!).

Here is a YouTube clip of just one of the songs.

We have five complete sets to give away (meaning that each winner will receive a copy of all five albums). Interestingly, each album includes two CDs, one to keep and one to give to a friend (great idea!).

Rules: You may only enter the draw once. Simply fill out your name and email address to enter the draw. As soon as the winners have been chosen, all names and addresses will be immediately and permanently erased. Winners will be notified by email. The giveaway closes tonight at midnight.

With a new Friday comes a new Free Stuff Fridays giveaway. This week’s sponsor is Moody Publishers. They are offering a package of some of their most popular new releases. There will be five winners, each of whom will receive:

1. Start Your Family: Inspiration for Having Babies by Steve and Candice Watters
2. Get Married: What Women Can Do to Help it Happen by Candice Watters
3. Radical Womanhood: Feminine Faith in a Feminist World by Carolyn McCulley
4. The Marriage Turnaround: How Thinking Differently About Your Relationship Can Change Everything by Mitch Temple
5. Just Do Something: How to Make a Decision Without Dreams, Visions, Fleeces, Open Doors, Random Bible Verses, Casting Lots, Liver Shivers, Writing in the Sky, etc. by Kevin DeYoung

All you need to do to have a chance at winning is to add your name and email address to the form below.

Rules: You may only enter the draw once. Simply fill out your name and email address to enter the draw. As soon as the winners have been chosen, all names and addresses will be immediately and permanently erased. Winners will be notified by email. The giveaway closes tonight at midnight.

With a new Friday comes a new Free Stuff Fridays. We are once again giving away music, this time courtesy of our sponsor Blake Hicks (visit www.blakehicksmusic.com.). Blake is a student at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary where he is completing his second(!) Masters degree. One of those multi-talented types, he is also an excellent graphics artist and musician. He has offered 20 copies of his album Songs of a Pious Heart: A Tribute to the Confessions of St. Augustine.

Robert Caldwell who is Assistant Professor of Church History at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary says this about the album: “Blending the worlds of modern music and ancient Christian literature, Blake Hicks’ work suspends us between the past and the present, clothing the devotions of a timeless, Christlike piety in the dress of modern rhythms. Like Augustine’s Confessions, Hicks’ music is a series of confessions addressed to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who redeems sinners and transforms them into saints who can’t help but sing of the glory of God in their redemption. The more I listen to it, the more it grows on me. My advice would be tolle audi, ‘take up and listen’ to Songs of a Pious Heart.”

Rules: You may only enter the draw once. Simply fill out your name and email address to enter the draw. As soon as the winners have been chosen, all names and addresses will be immediately and permanently erased. The giveaway closes at 10 AM on Saturday April 11.

It is Friday and that means it is time for another round of Free Stuff Fridays. This week’s sponsor is Sojourn Music. Sojourn describes itself in this way: “New songs for modern missional worship, rich in Christian teaching and contextualized in modern culture. Contemporary hymns, psalms, songs of lament and praise written by members of the Louisville, KY-based Sojourn Community.” Sojourn is currently putting the final touches on a new album, “Over the Grave: The Hymns of Isaac Watts.” In the meantime, though, we are giving away five Sojourn prize packs. Each prize consists of:

Three CDs (Before the Throne, Advent Songs, and These Things I Remember), along with Pastor Daddy (a children’s book) and the Before the Throne devotional.

I am an unabashed fan of many of the Sojourn songs. Some of my favorites are “We Are Listening,” “In the Shadow of the Glorious Cross,” “God Is With Us” and “Hosanna in the Highest.” They also have a really nice version of “Joy to the World” that uses an original melody.

Rules: You may only enter the draw once. Simply fill out your name and email address to enter the draw. As soon as the winners have been chosen, all names and addresses will be immediately and permanently erased. The giveaway closes tonight at midnight.

This week’s sponsor is Matthias Media. This mission of Matthias Media is “To serve our Lord Jesus Christ, and the growth of his gospel throughout the world, by producing and delivering high-quality, Bible-based resources.” And they do produce some great resources.

Speaking of which, there are five prizes to win this week. Each of the winners will be sent a package containing:

• Six Steps to Reading your Bible DVD (Retail $24.99)
• Six Steps to Reading your Bible workbook (Retail $5.99)
• Briefing CDROM (a fully searchable archive of every issue of the Briefing for the last 20 years) (Retail - $49.99)

This is a great prize package containing some very useful material for your home library or even for your church library. “Whatever your current Bible reading habits (or lack of them), and whatever your level of knowledge and confidence, Six Steps to Reading Your Bible will help you make progress in getting into your Bible. The course is especially designed for use in small groups, and utilizes a mix of video instruction, fun skits, Bible study, discussion, practical exercises, prayer and home assignments that will help you on the road to establishing a new and more enjoyable Bible reading habit.”

Here is the trailer for the DVD:

Rules: You may only enter the draw once. Simply fill out your name and email address to enter the draw. As soon as the winners have been chosen, all names and addresses will be immediately and permanently erased. The giveaway closes tonight at midnight.

This week’s sponsor is christianaudio.com. It seems fitting that, as I blog the Ligonier Ministries National Conference focusing on The Holiness of God that we would give away some copies of the audio version of Sproul’s classic book by the same title.

I’m on my way to Chattanooga, Tennessee today, to spend a bit of time with my family. Next week I’ll head to Orlando and bring live updates from the Ligonier Ministries National Conference. But for today we’ve got some free stuff to give away.

This week’s sponsor is P&R Publishing. They have just released Keith Mathison’s From Age to Age: The Unfolding of Biblical Eschatology. ” Using the narrative method of biblical theology, From Age to Age traces the eschatological themes of Scripture from Genesis to Revelation, emphasizing how each book of the Bible develops these themes that culminate in the coming of Christ and showing how individual texts fit into the overarching picture.” Derek Thomas says it is “Meticulously comprehensive, a veritable compendium of biblical theology from Genesis to Revelation examining every possible nuance of eschatological insight, breathtaking in its scope, Mathison has provided us with an invaluable reference tool. A tour de force unlike any other on this hugely significant topic.”

This is a huge 832 page hardcover book! There are five copies to win. Simply enter your name and email address below for your chance to win.

Rules: You may only enter the draw once. Simply fill out your name and email address to enter the draw. As soon as the winners have been chosen, all names and addresses will be immediately and permanently erased. The giveaway closes tonight and midnight.