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Free Download from Christian Audio: Desiring God
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This month’s free download from Christian Audio is John Piper’s Desiring God. Not a book for casual perusal, some will find it a bit difficult to read, I found it intriguing, exciting and rich in food for thought.
For the month of November, you can download an audio version completely for free!
From the Christian Audio newsletter:
Desiring God by John Piper is the free audiobook download for November; one of the best-selling and most popular titles ever published by christianaudio!
Scripture reveals that the great business of life is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever. In this paradigm-shattering classic, newly revised and expanded, John Piper reveals that the debate between duty and delight doesn’t truly exist: Delight is our duty. Join him as he unveils stunning, life impacting truths you saw in the Bible but never dared to believe.
Desiring God Ministries was founded in 1994 by Pastor John Piper of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, MN. Desiring God exists to say that God’s ultimate goal is to glorify himself. Everything they do aims to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples through Jesus Christ. Learn how they accomplish that and how you can join in the mission at www.desiringgod.org
We went through this book in our bible study several years ago, and if you haven’t read it, I definitely recommend it. You can:
- Download the audio version here, REMEMBER to use code NOV2009.
- Purchase the print version of Desiring God
from Amazon.
This is only available until the end of November. Regular download price is $16.98. Also throughout November, all of Piper’s other audio books are for sale for only $4.98 each.
Full Disclosure: I’m not compensated in any form by Christian Audio. The Amazon link, however, is an affiliate link. Any pennies I earn supports our homeschooling on one income, my blogging hobby and my coffee habit.
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My Reading List for Edification for 2009
I’ve tried this before. Ya know, making a reading list for the new year.
It didn’t work so well.
But I’m trying again. Anyway. So there. I already have more than enough unread (and unfinished!) books on my shelf to read a different one each month. So that’s the plan.
The first one, I’m actually already a couple chapters into, so it should be an easy start, right?
- January ~ The Excellent Wife by Martha Peace *
- February ~ Praise Her in the Gates by Nancy Wilson
- March ~ Lies Women Believe by Nancy Leigh DeMoss *
- April ~ A Mom After God’s Own Heart by Elizabeth George
- May ~ The Mission of Motherhood by Sally Clarkson
- June ~ Teach Them Diligently by Lou Priolo *
- July ~ Desiring God by John Piper *
- August ~ The Pleasures of God by John Piper
- September ~ Battling Unbelief by John Piper
- October ~ The Power of Prayer in a Believer’s Life by Charles Spurgeon
- November ~ 10 Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health by Donald S. Whitney *
- December ~ Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper *
Whew! That’s not an easy list!! We’ll see how far I can get this time. 
What’s on YOUR reading list for 2009? Have you read any of these? What did you think of them?
* Begun but never finished, either by a little or a lot. **Update: How am I doing?? Horrible! It’s taking me much longer to finish a book than I anticipated between housekeeping and homeschooling and blogging and all that. I may have to, um, reconsider my list. This may end up being a list for 2009-2010. Then again.. maybe I can catch up. Who knows?? ….If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
The Princess and the Kiss
The Princess and the Kiss: A Story of God’s Gift of Purity is the charming tale of a princess and her first kiss, which God entrusted her parents with for safe-keeping on the day of her birth. The kiss was safely kept by the King and Queen until the princess was old enough to guard it on her own.
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