There are two Cross-point (a book publisher/imprint of the much-better-known Crossway)
giveaways that I'm going to try to post. I'm going try to split information about the offers into two posts, should I not be able to get to the second one.
This first one is entitled
Grace Defined and Defended: What a 400-Year-Old Confession Teaches Us about Sin, Salvation, and the Sovereignty of God. In several other places, however, it is called
The Whole Christ I (do not know yet how to reconcile the difference). Anyway, the book is by Sinclair Ferguson.
This first post is on a relatively obscure historical event, but according to Ferguson, has ramifications for our day. The
giveaway's webpage states that the book is "
In honor of Kevin DeYoung’s new book Grace Defined and Defended
: What a 400-Year-Old Confession Teaches Us about Sin, Salvation, and the Sovereignty of God,
Description of The Whole Christ:
Since the days of the early church, Christians have wrestled with the relationship between law and gospel. If, as the apostle Paul says, salvation is by grace and the law cannot save, what relevance does the law have for Christians today?
By revisiting the Marrow Controversy—a famous but largely forgotten eighteenth-century debate related to the proper relationship between God’s grace and our works—Sinclair B. Ferguson sheds light on this central issue and why it still matters today. In doing so, he explains how our understanding of the relationship between law and gospel determines our approach to evangelism, our pursuit of sanctification, and even our understanding of God himself.
Ferguson shows us that the antidote to the poison of legalism on the one hand and antinomianism on the other is one and the same: the life-giving gospel of Jesus Christ, in whom we are simultaneously justified by faith, freed for good works, and assured of salvation.
The Whole Christ is available
free--NSA, apparently, and in all of our favorite flavors: PDF, mobi, and ePub.
Link.