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First Study Bible Available on Kindle

From today’s news release:41

Crossway is pleased to announce that the ESV Study Bible is now the first study Bible available on Amazon’s Kindle. Created to help people understand the Bible in a deeper way, the ESV Study Bible has all 2,752 pages of ESV Study Bible notes, resources, and features conveniently accessible anywhere, anytime on the 10.2-ounce Kindle device.

Equivalent to more than 20 volumes of Bible text and study resources, the Kindle edition of the ESV Study Bible can currently be purchased in the Kindle store for $9.99 (Introductory SRP of $14.99 until June 1st).

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April 13, 2009 | Posted in: Digital,ESV,Study Bibles | Author: James Kinnard @ 10:32 am | (31) Comments »

Adrian Warnock on the Resurrection

In the following video, Adrian Warnock and Sam Allberry talk about the importance of the resurrection (and their forthcoming books). Adrian’s Raised with Christ: How the Resurrection Changes Everything will explore the massive doctrinal, experiential, and evangelistic implications of a risen and reigning Christ. It’s scheduled for publication January 2010.


Raised With Christ and Lifted – Two Books On The Resurrection from Adrian Warnock on Vimeo.

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April 9, 2009 | Posted in: Author,Books,Interviews,Resurrection of Christ,Video | Author: James Kinnard @ 6:51 am | Comments Off »

Tim Keller on the Power of Resurrection

By Nancy Guthrie

It’s just the way I am. And I’m too old to change. That’s the way many of us feel about ourselves. We fear we are trapped in the patterns of our personality, with no hope to ever change.

In the piece by Tim Keller in the collection of writing about the cross and resurrection, Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross, Tim Keller speaks to this hopeless surrender to our sin-sick ways, drawing back the curtain on why the resurrection of Jesus is such good news for those of us who fear we can never change.

“The difference between knowing Christ and knowing the power of his resurrection,” says Keller, “is the difference between knowing a person and resembling a person . . . It is not about relationship but about supernatural character growth.

When Paul says, “I want to know him,” it means, “I want to be with him,” but when he says, “I want to know the power of his resurrection,” it means, “I want to be just like him.”

Look at the deadness in your life. Look at the anger. How is that going to be turned into forgiveness? Look at the insecurity. How is that going to be turned into confidence? Look at the self-centeredness. How is that going to be turned into compassion and generosity? How? The answer is that the dead stuff gets taken over by the Spirit of God . . . The minute you decide to receive Jesus as Savior and Lord, the power of the Holy Spirit comes into your life. It’s the power of the resurrection—the same thing that raised Jesus from the dead.”

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NANCY GUTHRIE has a passion for sharing God’s Word through her growing national and international Bible-teaching ministry. She has worked in the Christian publishing industry for more than two decades and is the author of Holding On to Hope, The One-Year Book of Hope, Hoping for Something Better, and Crossway’s Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus.

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April 8, 2009 | Posted in: Author,Resurrection of Christ,Sanctification/Growth | Author: Crossway Staff @ 10:01 am | 0 Comments »

Paul David Tripp’s “A Shelter in the Time of Storm”

Check out this video clip with Paul Tripp about his new book, A Shelter in the Time of Storm:

Psalm 27 is a psalm of trouble and worship, of difficulty and beauty, of the evil of people against people, and of the mercy of God. It is honest about life in this fallen world, placing joyful and self-sacrificing worship right next to the trouble that is the psalm’s background theme.

A Shelter in the Time of Storm takes readers through this roller-coaster-ride of a psalm in fifty-two meditations. These meditations are designed to fill hearts with a patient hope that grows stronger as the trouble-spotted days go by.

See also Whiter Than Snow: Meditations on Sin and Mercy (July 08).

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April 6, 2009 | Posted in: Author,Books,The Bible,Worship | Author: Crossway Staff @ 8:10 pm | 1 Comment »

“Because He Loves Me” Free on the Kindle

becauseElyse Fitzpatrick’s Because He Loves Me: How Christ Transforms Our Daily Life (April 2008) is available for free for 30 days in the Kindle Store.

(Note: We were hoping to have this up on other platforms as well but are experiencing some delays.)

Elyse’s latest book, Comforts from the Cross: Celebrating the Gospel One Day at a Time, was published last month and her next, written with Dennis Johnson, will be published in June. It is titled Counsel from the Cross: Connecting Broken People to the Love of Christ.

Endorsements for Because He Loves Me

“Elyse Fitzpatrick has given us a helpful, encouraging, and stimulating book that explores the practical impact of God’s great love for his people in every aspect of Christian living. Her rich insights into God’s revealed truth will certainly equip and inspire Christians to better fulfill their chief end of glorifying and enjoying him forever!”
Carol J. Ruvolo, author of Grace to Stand Firm, Grace to Grow, and No Other Gospel

“The Spirit of God seems to be initiating a widespread recovery of the gospel and its implications. Because He Loves Me is another—and welcome—indication that fresh gospel breezes are blowing. If you love the gospel of Jesus Christ, you’ll love what Elyse Fitzpatrick has written in this book.”
Donald S. Whitney, Professor of Biblical Spirituality, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; author of Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life

“What Elyse Fitzpatrick has written is inspirational and overflows with practical application that pushes me to take the gospel into the otherwise private corners of my life.”
Edward T. Welch, Counselor and Faculty Member, Christian Counseling & Education Foundation

“Because He Loves Me will provide hope and a desperately needed supply of ‘spiritual oxygen’ to many Christians who have lost sight of what they have and who they are in Christ and are struggling to live a life they can never live apart from him.”
Nancy Leigh DeMoss, author; Radio Host, Revive Our Hearts

“Many Christian books focus our gaze on the difficult duties of the Christian life, leaving us either triumphant in self-righteous pride or burdened down with a backpack full of guilt. Elyse Fitzpatrick shows us how to lay down that burden of guilt at the cross and put to death that self-righteousness, not merely once but daily as we glory increasingly in the gospel.”
Iain Duguid, Professor of Old Testament, Grove City College

“Elyse Fitzpatrick reminds us why the gospel is such good news—not only when we hear it for the first time, but even after a lifetime of familiarity with the message. This is a moving exposition of gospel truth showing how the doctrinal content of our faith is not merely dry, academic stuff, but wonderfully personal and practical truth.”
Philip R. Johnson, Executive Director, Grace to You

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April 3, 2009 | Posted in: Author,Books,Endorsements,Sanctification/Growth | Author: James Kinnard @ 7:43 am | (3) Comments »