FREE/BARGAIN - Christian Interest - 2014

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We point out free and bargain Christian titles to each other. Please don't post any self-published books*, and please do a search before posting to avoid duplicates.

In case no retailer is specifically mentioned in a post, it is safe to assume it's for Amazon US.

Be aware that many freebies are only free for a day, so grab them fast!

*Unless you have read them yourself, think they are excellent, and you're not connected to the author in any way.

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From Tubemonkey's post in the audiobooks thread:

ChristianAudio Free Audiobook of the Month -- exp 30 Sep
FREE - How Should We Then Live? -- Francis A Schaeffer

Quote:
AudioFile Earphones Award Winner

As one of the foremost evangelical thinkers of the twentieth century, Francis Schaeffer long pondered the fate of declining Western culture. In this brilliant book he analyzed the reasons for modern society’s state of affairs and presented the only viable alternative: living by the Christian ethic, acceptance of God’s revelation, and total affirmation of the Bible’s morals, values, and meaning.

How Should We Then Live? has become the benchmark for Christian worldview thinking today. This edition commemorates the 50th anniversary of L’Abri Fellowship, founded by Francis and Edith Schaeffer.
Last edited by tubemonkey; Today at 11:16 AM.

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Horse Dreams
by Dandi Daley Mackall

at BN.com

Fourth-grader Ellie James has a great imagination. She spends a lot of time daydreaming of owning a black stallion show horse and winning trophies in the horse show. But when the answer to all her dreams and prayers gallops into her life, will Ellie be able to recognize it? Join Ellie and her quirky family in their exciting, horse-loving adventures.

Product Details:
ISBN-13: 9781414366272
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Publication date: 8/17/2011
Series: Backyard Horses , #1

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The Pastor's Kid: Finding Your Own Faith and Identity
by Barnabas Piper

at BN.com

The Only One Facing As Much Pressure As the Pastor is ... The Pastor’s Kid

Dad may be following God’s call, but the Pastor’s kids (PKs) are just following mom and dad. Often to devastating results.

Barnabas Piper – son of Pastor and bestselling author John Piper – has experienced the challenges of being a PK first-hand. With empathy, humor, and personal stories, he addresses the pervasive assumptions, identity issues and accelerated scrutiny PKs face.

But more than just stating the problems – he shares the one thing a PK needs above all else (as do their pastor/father and church) is to live in true freedom and wholeness.

Product Details:
ISBN-13: 9780781410359
Publisher: Cook, David C.
Publication date: 7/1/2014

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repost from August 31 in August thread.

Saint Francis of Assisi: A Life Inspired, by Wyatt North, free at Amazon US, reportedly to September 3.

Book Description
Publication Date: July 23, 2014

St. Francis’s call is a call to return to the basics of Christianity. It is a call to Christians to reach back to their roots so that their spiritual lives can draw strength from the pure waters of the Gospel instead of being choked by manmade traditions and worldly concerns. In the words of G. K. Chesterton, the coming of Francis “marked the moment when men could be reconciled not only to God but to nature and, most difficult of all, to themselves. … his whole function [was] to tell men to start afresh and, in that sense, to tell them to forget” (124).

While St. Francis of Assisi is one of the most beloved saints in history, the relevancy of St. Francis for our times in light of the election of Pope Francis has yet to be explored. This book is written with the intention of filling that gap. While it is biographical in nature, it also freely explores themes that relate to St. Francis but are not a part of his life. This book is about more than the life of St. Francis of Assisi; it is about the impact this beloved saint has had through his imitation of Christ, his love of poverty, the Franciscan movement, and his profound influence on Pope Francis.

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The first two also free at Amazon.

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Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy by John Julius Norwich

$1.99 at Amazon US

In a chronicle that captures nearly two thousand years of inspiration and intrigue, John Julius Norwich recounts in riveting detail the histories of the most significant popes and what they meant politically, culturally, and socially to Rome and to the world. Norwich presents such popes as Innocent I, who in the fifth century successfully negotiated with Alaric the Goth, an invader civil authorities could not defeat; Leo I, who two decades later tamed (and perhaps paid off) Attila the Hun; the infamous “pornocracy”—the five libertines who were descendants or lovers of Marozia, debauched daughter of one of Rome’s most powerful families; Pope Paul III, “the greatest pontiff of the sixteenth century,” who reinterpreted the Church’s teaching and discipline; John XXIII, who in five short years starting in 1958 instituted reforms that led to Vatican II; and Benedict XVI, who is coping with today’s global priest sex scandal. Epic and compelling, Absolute Monarchs is an enthralling history from “an enchanting and satisfying raconteur” (The Washington Post).

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Originally Posted by LovesMacs

Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy by John Julius Norwich

$1.99 at Amazon US

I can testify as to this being a good book. I just got through listening to it, having bought the Kindle ebook and the audiobook as a Whispersync.

A book on this subject could easily be dry, but this one is not. The author does a great job of making the facts interesting. Also, he does not cover every pope, but mainly those that he deems more significant. He brings in concomitant history related to the pontiffs when discussing them.

It's a good listen, and I'm sure it is a good read, too.

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B&H Academic has another selection for $.99, Interpreting Gospel Narratives: Scenes, People, and Theology by Timothy Wiarda.

The night of his arrest, Jesus spoke to his close followers about two testimonies that would focus on Him: the work of the Holy Spirit and their own personal accounts. Interpreting Gospel Narratives looks exclusively at the testimony given in the Gospels, exploring several ways to enrich our Gospel exegesis so that we may see Christ as clearly as possible.

Timothy Wiarda’s book is primarily how-to, discussing questions of exegetical method that will help interpreters and expositors work with Gospel texts. He also discusses methodological questions relating specifically to the narrative material in the Gospels and focuses in on other fine details—the portrayal of individual characters, descriptive elements, the relation between theology and story, and more.

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Kobo contest coupons are still working and there are a number of 75% off coupons that each work once per account. A couple of fresh ones were posted this morning.

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Westminister Bookstore has another $1.99 sale, this time on over 100 ebooks from P&R Publishing. I got the email promo and there is no buy-limit that I can see. It's a 72-hour sale (ends on Saturday).

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Originally Posted by Loosheesh

Westminister Bookstore has another $1.99 sale, this time on over 100 ebooks from P&R Publishing. I got the email promo and there is no buy-limit that I can see. It's a 72-hour sale (ends on Saturday).
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Thanks for the post. Great find!

I'm on the Bookstore's mailing list and probably have gotten an email about the sale, but I haven't been able to keep up the last few days with checking all of my emails. Who knows if I would have seen the announcement.

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The monthly free book from R. C. Sproul's Ligonier Ministries is Welcome to a Reformed Church by Daniel Hyde. It's a DRM-free epub at Ligonier's online store. It's also free at Amazon.

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Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Doesn't She Look Natural? by Angela Hunt, 1st in the Fairlawn series of heartwarming contemporary women's/literary fiction, originally out from Tyndale House in 2007.

How do you cope when God asks you to bury a dream? In this new series by best-selling author Angela Hunt, readers will meet Jennifer Graham, the no-nonsense chief of staff for a Virginia senator who quits her job after a divorce and finds herself an unemployed single mom. Forced to live with her mother until she can find work on Capitol Hill that does not involve her gregarious ex-husband, her efforts are stymied until she learns that she has inherited a funeral home in picturesque Mt. Dora. Jennifer journeys to the small Florida town with her two sons and her mother, never dreaming that within a mortuary she will discover she has inherited a rewarding career that teaches her far more about life than death.

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All of these books are couponable at Kobo in the US.

Thomas Nelson's King James Study Bible is $4.99
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Coincidentally, The King James Version Debate: A Plea for Realism by D. A. Carson is $2.99.
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A series of three books of apologetics essays edited by Paul Copan and William Lane Craig are $2.99 each:

Passionate Conviction: Modern Discourses on Christian Apologetics
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Contending with Christianity's Critics: Anwering New Atheists and Other Objectors
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Come Let Us Reason: New Essays in Christian Apologetics
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Here are a couple more bargains from B&H. They should be couponable at Kobo, but it looks like the coupons codes have dried up for the moment. I'll link Christianbook instead, where these (and other B&H books) are DRM-free.

Christian Doctrine by Walter T. Conner is the latest $.99 deal from B&H Academics. It's from 1937, but it's still in print and used as a textbook in theology courses at conservative seminaries.
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The Apologetics Study Bible is $5.99.
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