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.

I am a little bit late posting this. Please accept my apologies; I got busy with other things and forgot all about it! Because I am late posting it, I will extend the giveaway until tomorrow at noon.

This week’s Free Stuff Fridays sponsor is Lewis & Roth. They are offering fifteen prizes, each of which will include four books! It is an Alexander Strauch prize pack.

Each of the fifteen winners will receive a copy of each of these titles: Love or Die, Leading with Love, Hospitality Commands and Agape Leadership. Whether you are a church leader or not, these books will be a blessing and an encouragement to you. Love or Die happens to be one of my favorite books of 2008 and is one that blessed me deeply. In my review I said, “I know beyond any shadow of doubt that many of our churches—and perhaps your church, and perhaps mine—would hear this same rebuke from the lips of the one who walks among us unseen, but seeing all. This passage from Scripture is a gift from God that we might “hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” Though Love or Die is but a short book, it is an excellent one and I commend it to you. It would not be out of place in any church library or personal collection.”

Also, if you wish to buy anything from the Lewis & Roth store, you can use the coupon code “challies” to get 15% off your order.

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 tomorrow at noon.

This week’s sponsor is Crossway Books. Crossway is offering five prizes, each of which will include three books by Sam Storms: More Precious than Gold, Hope of Glory and To the One Who Conquers. These are the three titles in a series of devotional books. One focuses on Colossians, one on Revelation 2-3 and the other on the Psalms.

In More Precious Than Gold, Storms combines years of life experience and his biblical and theological training to bring readers 50 brief, daily meditations that are both stylistically accessible and theologically substantive. Each meditation includes a historical or theological reflection on the psalm in context, a story that brings it alive, and creative tools to support the key idea. Storms also interweaves the words of such luminaries as Charles Spurgeon, Jonathan Edwards, and John Piper to help readers better understand the concepts that are featured throughout Psalms: worship, prayer, joy, forgiveness, steadfast love, mercy, sin’s consequences, the law of the Lord, and our relationship with our enemies.

Rules: You may only enter 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 Evangelical Press, celebrating the opening of their US store, is offering five copies of Fearless Pilgrim: The Life and Times of John Bunyan. You may recognize the title from a review I wrote just a couple of weeks ago. I said there that “This is a fantastic biography—one that is well-written and nicely paced. It could so easily have bogged down through discussions of Bunyan’s voluminous writings, but Cook does an excellent job of saying only what needs to be said and allowing the book to move along. One endorsement of this book suggests that it is Cook’s best book yet. Though I have not read all of her works, I’d be inclined to agree. This is a very good biography and one that is worthy of a place on your bookshelf.”

Also, anyone shopping at the Evangelical Press store may be interested in using a special coupon code. If you enter the code “Challies” upon checkout, you will receive $5 off any order. This code is valid from today until March 20.

In the meantime, 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 Ligonier Ministries is offering 50 (count ‘em 50!) prizes. Each of the 50 (!) winners will be given a year-long subscription to Tabletalk Magazine (or a subscription for a friend, neighbor, family member if the winner happens to already be a subscriber).

Tabletalk is a tool that helps you grow in your knowledge of God and in your love for His Son and His people. Each month is packed with more than 60 pages of focused, practical Bible study and insightful commentary by today’s top Christian thinkers. Over the years, Tabletalk has been recognized for its excellence through several awards. Today, people all over the world read Tabletalk on a daily basis. The magazine is regularly found in seminary libraries and churches throughout the country. Many credit Tabletalk with helping them maintain a solid life of study and prayer.

Click here If you would like to view a sample issue.

Please note that it will take 6-8 weeks for your first issue to arrive. That means that it will arrive just a little bit too late for you to see my Tabletalk debut. But no matter.

Rules: You may enter only once. The giveaway closes tonight at midnight.

Notes: You must provide your mailing address (or the address of the person to whom you would like to give your subscription) in order to enter the giveaway. This information will be stored securely for the duration of the giveaway. As soon as the winners have been selected, their names and mailing addresses will be forwarded to Ligonier Ministries. All other information will be immediately and permanently erased.

Enter here:

We’re going to try something new around here. For the next few weeks, at least, I’m going to make Fridays a giveaway day. Check in Friday mornings and there will be something to win.

Today I’m giving away five copies of a great little book on John Calvin (courtesy of Reformation Heritage Books). “In this attractive volume, Simonetta Carr introduces young readers to the life, thought, and work of one of the most famous Reformers of the Christian church. She tells about the life of John Calvin from his birth to his death, placing him within the troubled context of the sixteenth century. She also introduces Calvin’s writings in a way that children will desire to know more about his ministry and influence.”

To enter the draw, all you need to do is send along your name and email address using the form below. I’ll accept entries until midnight tonight. At that point I’ll randomly choose the winners, notify them via email, and then erase all the information (thus assuring you that you will never be spammed or otherwise annoyed).

The only rule is: only one entry per person. Please.

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Since last week’s little contests went over well, I thought I’d try another one. The style is similar—here we have a list of 21 quotes. Each of these quotes are endorsements for a book and each is written by J.I. Packer (quite the prolific reader and endorser!). As I am flying to Vancouver for a meeting tomorrow, it seemed to me that Packer would be an appropriate subject.

Your task is to send me a list of the titles and author(s) for each of these books. Send your list (partial or full if you can figure out all of them). Whoever gets the most right will win a $50 gift certificate for Westminster Books. Should two or more correctly identify all of the books, I will randomly select a winner from among them. Where the book’s author or title is explicitly mentioned in the endorsement, I have replaced them with [Author] or [Title].

Now I know that you can probably Google most or all of these—and that is not against the rules. By why not at least think about them first and see if you can figure them out. There is no advantage to being the first to submit your answers, so don’t feel you need to hurry. Just get your answers in before 12 PM Eastern tomorrow and I will announce a winner as soon as I can get to a computer and tally it all up.

Submit your answers here.

1. “The healthy biblical realism of this study in Christian motivation comes as a breath of fresh air. Jonathan Edwards, whose ghost walks through most of [Author]’s pages, would be delighted with his disciple.”

2. “This extended declaration and defence of the penal substitutionary view of Christ’s atoning death responds to a plethora of current criticisms, many of them in-house, with a thoroughness and effectiveness that is without parallel anywhere. The book’s existence shows that a British evangelical theology which exegetically, systematically, apologetically and pastorally can take on the world is in process of coming to birth. I hail this treatise as an epoch-making tour de force, and hopefully a sign of many more good things to come.”

3. “[Author]’s insight into human nature, divine grace, and Christian life yields a better blueprint for marriage than the self-absorbed rule-ridden role-play with which too many stop short. This is a wise and liberating book for struggling couples—and many others, too.”

4. “In this crowded world of Bible versions [Author]’s blend of accurate scholarship and vivid idiom make this rendering both distinctive and distinguished. [Title] catches the logical flow, personal energy, and imaginative overtones of the original very well indeed.”

5. “It is a privilege to commend so sensible, clear and fruitful an overview of basic Christian belief.”

6. “[Author]’s disarming introduction to personal faith is a modern classic. Long life to it!”

7. “Following in the footsteps of the late great Francis Schaeffer, two leading scholars here give wide-ranging guidance on how today we may show we are Christians by our love.”

8. “Brilliant [Author] is one of God’s best gifts to our decaying Western church, and would-be learners and teachers of the faith will gain hugely from these fascinating pages.”

9. “Clear, well informed, up to date, and firmly anchored in the mainstream of Christian wisdom. Oriented to the church, the Holy Spirit, and the future in a biblically proper way, this work transcends the rationalism and individualism that mar some of its predecessors…An outstanding achievement.”

10. “[Author] rises grandly to the challenge of the greatest of all themes. All the qualities that we expect of him—biblical precision, thoughtfulness and thoroughness, order and method, moral alertness and the measured tread, balanced judgment and practical passion—are here in fullest evidence. This, more than any book he has written, is his masterpiece.”

11. “[Author]’s offensive against Arminian-type views of election among evangelicals is a very solid piece of work. The thoroughness of its arguments gives it conclusive force.”

12. “Here is a modern reader’s edition of a classic Puritan work by a classic Puritan author. It is a powerful Trinitarian profiling from Scripture of the truth that fellowship with God is and must ever be the inside story of the real Christian’s life. The editing is excellent, and the twenty-seven-page introduction and the thirty-page analytical outline make the treatise accessible, even inviting, to any who, with Richard Baxter, see “heart-work” as the essence of Christianity. [Author] is a profound teacher on all aspects of spiritual life, and it is a joy to welcome this reappearance of one of his finest achievements.”

13. “Careful, thorough, wise, and to my mind, convincing.”

14. “Here is the quintessence of the gospel, the new wine of God’s kingdom at its purest for us today! Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest [title].”

15. “Thought is packed tight in this masterful survey of the covenantal frame of God’s self-disclosure in Scripture, and for serious students it is a winner.”

16. “This 25-year-old classic still makes one think, pray, get real with God, repent, and find joy in wise obedience more effectively than any other book I know. I cannot recommend it too highly.”

17. “[A] sober, encouraging book…The two sides of the author, the biblical scholar who reads, thinks, and misses no detail and the pastoral teacher who understands people, feels with them, and cares for them, combine here to give us a treatment of suffering under God’s sovereignty which is outstandingly accurate, wise, and helpful. All who follow the author’s fast-flowing argument will find their heads cleared and their hearts strengthened.”

18. “Honest historian [Author] informs us straightaway that he views the Christian story through the lenses of Protestant, Reformed, evangelical, baptistic, free-church spectacles. His telling of the tale, journalistic in style while scholarly in substance, then proves his point. You will find this book clarifying and invigorating.”

19. “[Author]’s exciting study…is a major step forward in the reappraisal of Puritanism…no student in the Puritan field can excuse themselves from reckoning with this important contribution.”

20. “I commend this eager and warm-hearted tour guide to the Book of Common Prayer with much enthusiasm …”

21. “This racy little book open up a far-reaching theme. With entertaining insight [Author] looks into the attitudes, alliances, and strategies that today’s state of affairs requires of believers. Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox alike need to ponder [Author]’s vision of things—preferably, in discussion together. What if he is right?”