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Every month, christianaudio.com gives away a free audiobook. This month, they are giving away John Piper's Don't Waste Your Life for absolutely free.

If you would like to purchase the book, you can buy it here or, if I'm not mistaken, you can obtain a copy at the church bookstore.

You can also read it for free in pdf here.

Below are a few videos to whet your appetite:

“He will tend his flock like a shepherd.”  Isaiah 40:11

“Jesus, the good shepherd, will not travel at such a rate as to overdrive the lambs.  He has tender consideration for the poor and needy.  Kings usually look to the interests of the great and the rich, but in the kingdom of our Great Shepherd he cares most for the poor. . . . The weaklings and the sickly of the flock are the special objects of the Savior’s care. . . . You think, dear heart, that you are forgotten, because of your nothingness and weakness and poverty.  This is the very reason you are remembered.”

C. H. Spurgeon, Treasury of the Old Testament (London, n.d.), III:575-576.

Sovereign Grace Music

Come Weary Saints

From Feeding On Christ:

On October 31, 1517 (493 years ago), Martin Luther nailed his ninety-five theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. Acting on the persuasions of his conscience, and a desire to defend the Gospel of grace, the Augustinian monk single single-handedly set fuel to one of the greatest and most influential movements the world has ever seen. Every Protestant minister throughout the world has been-whether they are conscious of it or not–effected by the actions of this one man. The difficulty of what he endured for the sake of Christ must not to be underestimated.

Although this moment in history is often thought of as the spark that lit the fire of the Protestant Reformation, men such as John Wycliffe and Jan Hus attempted to reform the Roman Catholic Church years before Luther ever came on the scene. Though Luther was only challanging for a formal debate on such topics as indulgences, purgatory, Mariology, and the doctrine of justification, God providentially organized this moment in time to occur with the booming increase and access of the printed word that it might spread like fire to the surrounding areas and then, the world.

Below is an excerpt from the movie Luther in which Luther was asked to recant his writings at The Diet of Worms.

Finally, here is an hour PBS special entitled Martin Luther: Reluctant Revolutionary to help give you a sense of the context Luther was operating in.

Through November 1, Max McLean is offering for free the audio to Martin Luther's famous "Here I Stand" speech of 1521 in celebration of Reformation Day on October 31!

As you can see, we have decided to name the church blog after this speech and now it would be a great time to give this download a listen to get a better idea of what actually happened that April day.

Here is an excerpt from the site:

In the late afternoon of April 18, 1521, in the city of Worms, Germany, Martin Luther, a 37 year-old Catholic monk was called to defend himself before Charles the Fifth, the Holy Roman Emperor. The speech he delivered that day, Here I Stand, marked the beginning of the Reformation, a critical turning point in Christian history, that decisively altered the spiritual map of the world.

In this recording, Max McLean introduces the events leading up to the Diet of Worms: Martin Luther’s prayer the night before he delivered his speech; Luther's stirring defense; the Catholic church’s rebuttal; and, Luther’s final heartfelt response.

 

"The first device that Satan has to keep souls in a sad, doubting, and questioning condition, and so making their life a hell, is by causing them to be still poring and musing upon sin, to mind their sins more than their Savior; yes, so to mind their sins as to forget, yes, to neglect their Savior, that, as the Psalmist speaks, 'The Lord is not in all their thoughts' (Psalm 10:4). Their eyes are so fixed upon their disease, that they cannot see the remedy, though it be near; and they do so muse upon their debts, that they have neither mind nor heart to think of their Surety.

A Christian should wear Christ in his bosom as a flower of delight, for he is a whole paradise of delight. He who minds not Christ more than his sin, can never be thankful and fruitful as he should."

Thomas Brooks

Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

HT: Josh Harris