“It is not possible to build a culture around a denial of God-given standards, and then arbitrarily reintroduce those standards at your convenience, whenever you need a word like evil to describe what has just happened. Those words cannot just be whistled up from the place where we exiled them. If we have banished them, and their definitions, and every possible support for them, we need to reckon with the fact that they are now gone.” (Douglas Wilson, Rules for Reformers).

by Stephen Rodgers

Since my traditional day for posting new resources fell on the first of the month, we delayed this over the weekend to give the various blogs and websites time to catch up and deploy their offerings. So here we go…

• The free book from christianaudio.com this month is Randy Singer’s The Advocate, a work of historical fiction. I don’t know much about it beyond that (apparently it was an ECPA finalist?), but it’s available if you’re interested.
• Logos.com’s free offering this month is NT Wright’s The Lord and His Prayer. I’m not personally familiar with that book either, although I know this one of his earlier works prior to his NPP views becoming such a lightning rod.
• A new issue of Ligonier’s Tabletalk is out, and this month the topic is “Doctrine for All of Life.”
• For those who are interested, Themelios 40.1 is now available as well, with the usual slew of articles, especially book reviews. DA Carson’s editorial looks especially interesting.
• Addionally, the first new issue of JBMW (20.1) in nearly a year is out. Considering how traditional Christian views on sex, gender, and marriage are under attack in the United States right now, this promises to be interesting.
• The new issue of CCEF’s counseling journal is also out. They seem to have changed their monetization strategy yet again; the new schema is that one article is free, and then “preview” versions (aka “the first third”) of each other article is also available for free. Anyhow, the free full article this month is by Powlison, so if nothing else, you might want to pick that up.
• Crossway is making the Global Study Bible available for free on a variety of platforms and in a variety of formats.
• And last but not least, it looks like Ligonier is branching out onto Youtube. They’re starting to upload some of RC Sproul’s teaching series for free: Chosen by God, The Holiness of God, and What is Reformed Theology.

That’s it for now.

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