“In answer to your inquiry, I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.” (William Booth)

by Stephen Rodgers

It’s the first Friday of the month, and that means that you get me. And not just me, for I travel with links as my boon companions. Here we go…

• The free audio book of the month from christianaudio.com is Recovering Redemption by Matt Chandler & Michael Snetzer. I’m not familiar with it, but historically Matt Chandler books have been quite good.
• Logos is going a bit crazy this month: first up, they have their free resource of the month, which is The New Testament Library Series: Ephesians by Stephen E. Fowl.
• Second, they’re also giving away the Folger Digital Texts Shakespeare Collection (42 vols.). If you’ll pardon a second quote: “Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?”
• Lastly, they’re also giving away a free resource for every day of Advent. So if you’re a devotee of the Logos platform, you won’t want to miss that.
• If there’s any other Shakespeare snobs out there, you might quibble with my use of the previous quote. “But Stephen,” you’ll say to me, “with all these free resources, you’d have been better off quoting Macbeth: ‘Nought’s had, all’s spent,Where our desire is got without content.’ ” If that’s you, then you’ll be pleased as punch to know that the December issue of Tabletalk magazine is on the topic of Contentment.
• When it comes to apologetics books, Josh McDowell’s Evidence That Demands a Verdict doesn’t quite rise to my if-I-were-stuck-on-a-desert-island list, but I’m still rather happy that there’s apparently a free online version of it now.
• And last but not least, if December’s attendant vacation days wouldn’t be restful without some additional reading material, fear not: there’s a new issue of the TMS journal, a new issue of the JBMW, and last but not least, the folks over at RPTS decided to throw their hat into the ring and start a journal as well. Enjoy!

That’s it for this time around, see you Sunday! (Unless of course you’re just reading this on the internet with no connection to an LBC church, in which case, hopefully the folks at your particular church will see you on Sunday, and vice versa). But if you’re near one of our churches, either in San Diego or elsewhere, we’d welcome you to join us.

Pro Rege