{"id":399,"date":"2006-10-18T19:57:36","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T17:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2006\/10\/18\/favorite-sermons-online-and-free\/"},"modified":"2006-10-18T19:57:36","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T17:57:36","slug":"favorite-sermons-online-and-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/18\/favorite-sermons-online-and-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Sermons Online and Free"},"content":{"rendered":"

If I can’t find what I’m looking for on the internet within one minute, I usually conclude that it’s not there. Last week, however, I was determined to find the latest biographical sermon by John Piper on William Tyndale. I found the manuscript<\/a> and I found links to all of the other messages<\/a>. And of course I found the mp3 CD<\/a> which you can buy for $20. That’s easily one of the best values for the money anywhere in the universe but I already bought most of those messages twice (once on cassette and then the mp3 CD a year or two ago). I just wanted this latest message and so I spent about 30 fruitless minutes, concluding at the end that I’d post about my failure with hopes that somebody could help me.<\/p>\n

Well, I didn’t have time yet to post, but Justin Taylor<\/a> today provides the answer. All of the biographical messages, including this year’s, are now online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They are all free.<\/p>\n

What is your response to a free offer like this? My response is to want to give to this kind of ministry. The ministries that charge for everything – well, I figure that I’m paying and I’m not motivated to give anything else. But Desiring God has for a long time distinguished itself by their generosity. That’s not because they don’t have bills to pay, but because they trust God to provide for their needs while they give their stuff away<\/em>. The result is this: Ministry A which charges $5\/sermon gets no-few purchases from me and nothing in donations. Ministry DG<\/a> charges $0 and gets far more than they’d get if I paid fair market value.<\/p>\n

I don’t say this to reveal what my right hand is doing, but to encourage you to consider your own response to those ministries which benefit you.<\/p>\n

And if you haven’t heard me say it before<\/a>, listen to these messages<\/a>. They may change your life. My favorites include John Bunyan, Adoniram Judson, John Paton, and Charles Spurgeon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If I can’t find what I’m looking for on the internet within one minute, I usually conclude that it’s not there. Last week, however, I was determined to find the latest biographical sermon by John Piper on William Tyndale. I found the manuscript and I found links to all of the other messages. And of\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-things-i-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}