The recent Sovereign Grace Ministries newsletter led me to several good sites today. The Hall of Contemporary Reformers includes biographical sketches, bibliographic information, and links to free articles and mp3 files online for leaders including John Piper, John MacArthur, R. C. Sproul, C. J. Mahaney, and others. Not surprisingly, Piper’s page offers the most free stuff, by far. It is too bad that the ministries of others got massive, with a huge infrastructure to fund, before the internet came along with its easy distribution capabilities.
From there, I somehow got to this free offer of Piper mp3 CDs. There are enough catches to keep me from making an order though: 1) you may only choose one of 4 disks; 2) it’s not really free as you have to pay for shipping and materials (what else could they charge you for? they couldn’t hardly make a profit off of Piper’s messages); 3) they want you to buy something else at the same time. But the series are good ones, and you might want to take a look.
It also led to Bob Kauflin’s blog, Worship Matters, which I read via RSS reader and thus hadn’t noticed the link to a free song at the top right of the page. The song is “God Moves,” and the lyrics are excellent (and old). It’s from the new Worship God Live CD.
This may be random, but what is “RSS”? I’ve seen it on the side-bar of your blog, but have no clue what it stands for or is. I suppose it is some computer/internet lingo that I am unfamiliar with…right?
Ilena, I just posted my own explination of RSS on my blog: Why RSS is cool (explained in plain English)
I’ve included an image to show you how I read Todd’s blog through RSS. My example only shows pulling headlines over RSS, but many of the RSS readers allow you to read the full-text of the post itself.
There’s a new free song on WorshipMatters, “receive the glory”. Do you know how often the free song changes?
JC – I don’t think there’s a regular schedule. The author of that blog apparently has permission to occasionally give away some of his own songs. I wouldn’t expect too many.