4 New $2 Books for our Book Table

Looking for some good, cheap, last minute gifts? Well, we happen to just get in a variety of new books from Desiring God (which retail from $10-$15) all for the price of $2 that  we will have for sale at our book table starting this Sunday!

• Finally Alive is a great book for anyone wanting a good, easy to understand book on regeneration/new birth.
• Don’t Waste Your Life is a challenging book for unbelievers and believers to make Christ their endless joy.
• Portrait of Calvin is for anyone who enjoys biographies, especially one of Reformer John Calvin.
• This Momentary Marriage is perfect for anyone who is thinking about marriage or a couple that has been married for years.

More details on the books & downloads of the books below:

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Finally Alive

What does the Bible teach about the miracle of rebirth?

In this book John Piper explores Jesus’ peculiar command, “You must be born again.”

When Jesus told Nicodemus, he had to be born again, this devout religious leader was unsure what Jesus meant. It seems nothing has changed. Today “born again Christians” fill churches that are ineffectual at best and sometimes even nonchristian.

The term “born again” has lost its meaning for many. Those claiming to be “born again” live lives that are indistinguishable from those who don’t; they sin the same, embrace injustice the same, do almost everything the same.

Being “born again” shouldn’t be defined by what people say they believe. It should be defined by Jesus.

“When Jesus said to Nicodemus, “You must be born again” (John 3:7), he was not sharing interesting and unimportant information. He was leading him to eternal life… If he does that for you (or if he already has), then you are (or you will be) truly, invincibly, finally alive.” John Piper

• Download this book (PDF).
• Listen to, read, or watch the sermon series that inspired it.

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Don’t Waste Your Life

In this book John Piper describes his journey toward one great, single passion—endless joy in the crucified Christ—and challenges the reader to the same pursuit. The cost is great. But the joy is worth any cost.

Table of Contents:

Preface: For Christians and Non-Christians
1 My Search for a Single Passion to Live By
2 Breakthrough—the Beauty of Christ, My Joy
3 Boasting Only in the Cross, The Blazing Center of the Glory of God
4 Magnifying Christ Through Pain and Death
5 Risk Is Right—Better to Lose Your Life Than to Waste It
6 The Goal of Life—Gladly Making Others Glad in God
7 Living to Prove He Is More Precious Than Life
8 Making Much of Christ from 8 to 5
9 The Majesty of Christ in Missions and Mercy—A Plea to This Generation
10 My Prayer—Let None Say in the End, “I’ve Wasted It”

• “Don’t Waste Your Life” the audio message.
• Download this book (PDF).

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Portrait of Calvin

This Desiring God reprint of T.H.L. Parker’s classic 1954 biography commemorates the 500th anniversary of Calvin’s birth in 1509.

Calvin’s words and life point beyond himself to where the crucified and risen Christ sits at the right hand of God. Before he died, he saw to it that there should be no posthumous canonization. He left orders that he should be buried in an unmarked grave. So his death and burial were of one piece with his life. Calvin bent all his energies in life and death to making Jesus Christ alone great, and making that greatness visible.

In his foreword, John Piper writes, “I am eager for people to know Calvin not because he was without flaws, or because he was the most influential theologian of the last 500 years (which he was), or because he shaped Western culture (which he did), but because he took the Bible so seriously, and because what he saw on every page was the majesty of God and the glory of Christ.”

Download this book (PDF).

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This Momentary Marriage

A Parable of Permanence

Reflecting on forty years of matrimony, John Piper exalts the biblical meaning of marriage:

Most foundationally, marriage is the doing of God. And ultimately, marriage is the display of God. It displays the covenant-keeping love between Christ and his people to the world in a way that no other event or institution does. Marriage, therefore, is not mainly about being in love. It’s mainly about telling the truth with our lives. And staying married is not about staying in love. It is about keeping covenant and putting the glory of Christ’s covenant-keeping love on display.

This Momentary Marriage unpacks this biblical vision, with all of its unexpected contours and weighty implications, for married and single folk alike.

• Download this book (PDF).
• See the sermon series it came from.

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And don’t forget some of the other books we already have at the book table.

(remember that all books are sold at the price that we got them for and are all approved by the church leadership and, we pray, are for you to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ)