Household Related Free (Kindle) Books

 Great drop of free books right now. I've already read a few of these and am looking forward to reading the remainder of them. Here are the ones that are free for the next few days. Stock your kindle right now. 

Reforming Marriage
by Douglas Wilson

Federal Husband
by Douglas Wilson

Fidelity
How to be a One Woman Man
by Douglas Wilson

My Life for Yours
A Walk through the Christian Home
by Douglas Wilson

Her Hand in Marriage
Biblical Courtship
in the Modern World
by Douglas Wilson

How to Exasperate your Wife
and Other Short Essays for Men
by Douglas Wilson

Standing on the Promises
A Handbook of Biblical Childrearing
by Douglas Wilson

Keep your Kids
How to Raise Strong Kids
in an Age of
Therapeutic Sentimentalism
by Douglas Wilson

Future Men
by Douglas Wilson

Ephesians Sermon Number 14

 This is sermon number 14 from the series on Ephesians. It was originally delivered on January 15th, 2012 at Edgewood Baptist Church. 

To listen to all of the Ephesians Sermons, click here or visit the Spotify page here. 

Persuasions by Douglas Wilson

I just finished reading Persuasions by Douglas Wilson. This little book reminded me a bit of something like an excerpt of Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan or from Pilgrim's Regress by C. S. Lewis. The style reminded me more of C. S. Lewis, but the setting could have been right out of the Pilgrim's Progress. 

This book is a series of interactions between an individual named Evangelist, who is traveling toward The City of God and those he comes into contact with, who are headed the other direction, toward The Abyss. Each individual is representative of a particular persuasion which leads one to The Abyss. Evangelist will then, in each interaction, attempt to persuade them to change directions and head toward The City of God. The people he meets along the way are Randy (Immorality), John (Antinomianism), Janice (Feminism), Jack (Agnosticism), Reverend Howe (Empty Scholarship), Mark (Atheism), Robert (Election), Jim and Sarah (Marriage), Dorothy (Hypocrisy in the Church), Bill (Salvation and Sanctification), Miriam (Pantheism), Paul (Evolution), and Michael (Roman Catholicism). 

I found it to be an enjoyable read, offering ideas for interactions as we also travel along the road to The City of God, meeting those headed to The Abyss. 

Persuasions: 
A Dream of Reason
Meeting Unbelief
by Douglas Wilson

More Free Kindle Books Today!

There are currently 11 books that are free from Canon Press. These don't always stay free for long. Here is their current list of free Kindle books. 

"Reformed" is Not Enough
Recovering the Objectivity 
of the Covenant
by Douglas Wilson

For a Glory and a Covering:
A Practical Theology of Marriage
by Douglas Wilson

Mere Fundamentalism: 
The Apostles' Creed and 
the Romance of Orthodoxy
by Douglas Wilson

Heaven Misplaced: 
Christ's Kingdom on Earth
by Douglas Wilson

Papa Don't Pope: 
Why I'm Non a Roman Cahtolic
(and Why the Future is Protestant)
by Douglas Wilson

Persuasions:
A Dream of Reason Meeting Unbelief
by Douglas Wilson

Joy at the End of the Tether
The Inscrutable Wisdom of Ecclesiastes
by Douglas Wilson

Mother Kirk: 
Essays on Church Life
by Douglas Wilson

Against the Church
by Douglas Wilson

Easy Chair, Hard Words: 
Conversations on the 
Liberty of God
by Douglas Wilson

Untune the Sky:
Occasional, Stammering Verse
by Douglas Wilson

Stock your Kindle. 

Read some thought-provoking books instead of watching some mind-numbing entertainment. 

Let me know what you read. 

And then... Let's talk.

Proof as Moral Obligation by Douglas Wilson

Yesterday I started reading the book Proof as Moral Obligation by Douglas Wilson. I did not know what to expect when I started reading it, but I was a Geometry teacher for 25 years, so I have a natural affinity for proofs; therefore I started reading. 

I would give you a summary, but I am not sure that I would do it justice. The essential premise, though, is that when one proves something, there is an included obligation for the one who has been shown that proof. This occurs, not in the experience of the presentation of a proof or its arguments, but when the arguments of that proof are coherent and consistent with the actual world and the listener has followed that coherence and consistence.  In other words, when someone has proved something to someone else they are then obliged to believe the thing proved. 

I was especially intrigued in the chapters dealing with the humility of believing and the arrogance of not believing anything. That to say that one can't actually know know something, the question becomes, "Well... do you know that?"  This is a question that must then be answered. Pair this with the idea that there really isn't anything that can be known absolutely, but there are things that we can absolutely know. 

I, of course, am not doing any of these thoughts any justice. I guess that is why I would recommend that you read this book. It only took me about an hour to complete. I started it last night, made my way halfway through it, and completed it just now after school was dismissed. 

This book is currently free on Amazon. I encourage you to snag it for you Kindle while this deal lasts. 

Proof as Moral Obligation
By Douglas Wilson

No Problem Passages

I'm reading a book from Douglas Wilson called Proof as Moral Obligation. I had no idea what the book was about when I started it, but have found it to be really interesting. I am in chapter 8 and thought I would share an excerpt. 

One of the best things my father ever taught me -- and there were many to choose from -- was the idea that the Christian should resolve in his heart never to have any problem passages in Scripture. It was permissible to have a problem with how best to understand a passage, but it was not permissible to have any problems with it once you understood it. Once the exegesis was done, the thing was settled. And you wanted to make sure there was no funny business in the course of the exegesis either ... appealing to Greek word studies to get yourself off the hook, for example. 

This is not, as many would represent it, a mindless fundamentalism. It is not a means of sticking to your guns after some haphazard attempt at exegesis. But while it is not a ramshackle dogmatism, it is right at the foundation of a true biblical absolutism. It is not a chaotic and shambolic bluster, but rather a sane decision to look to the light in a very dark world. 

God is a Rock, and His Word is a rock. unregenerate man wants to believe that he is stable, and his basis for thinking this is that there are periodic times of tranquility and calm, and he thinks he has a root in himself simply because of inertia. The first part of Newton's first law tells us that an object at rest tends to stay at rest. Autonomous man is a billiard ball that believes himself to be immovable simply because a cue ball hasn't hit him yet. 

In contrast, the believer trusts in his God, who is a Rock. And when believers trust in Christ, and do what He says, they are building their house on a rock (Matthew 7:25), one that is fully capable of withstanding any storm. 

There are probably other excerpts that would better represent this book, but this is the one that was before me at the moment. The Kindle version was still free, last I checked. I would like to encourage you to pick it up. 

Proof as Moral Obligation
by Douglas Wilson

Galatians Sermon Number 4 - The Issue

 What was the actual issue that prompted the harsh reaction from the Apostle Paul? In this sermon, I attempt to break down the cultural/historical situation that the Galatians were facing.