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Win Free Bible Commentaries & Theology Books from Christian Focus

~ Bob Hayton ~ 10 Comments

If you’re like me, you are always looking to expand your library. The best way to do that is by winning free books! Blogging & social media offer opportunities to get books, but often they aren’t necessarily books you’d really purchase yourself. They aren’t that great, sometimes.

Well this week, Christian Focus Publications is giving away some really good theology books & a Bible commentary over at their new BookNotes blog.

There will be two winners, and you can win either of these prize packs:

First Prize:

Second Prize:

Be sure to enter this special book giveaway. And for another chance at a free Bible commentary, you can also enter a contest I’m running over at my King James Only debate blog. Zondervan is sponsoring the giveaway of their new two volume King James Commentary on the whole Bible. Learn more about that contest here.

I believe both contests run through the end of this week. From one book lover to another, enjoy!

Another Zondervan Book Giveaway

~ Bob Hayton

The deadline for entering the book giveaway I’m hosting here at Fundamentally Reformed, for Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality by Wesley Hill is just about up. The drawing will be held 8pm Central time tomorrow (Wednesday, March 2). You’ll want to be sure you enter that.

Along these lines, I wanted to let my blog readers know about a giveaway hosted at the group site KJVOnlyDebate.com that I manage. Once again Zondervan is sponsoring the giveaway. We’re giving away one 2 volume commentary set each week through the month of March. Swing on by and enter this week’s contest. Just click the button below.

Reformation Week Book Giveaway Contest Results

~ Bob Hayton ~ 1 Comment

Thanks to everyone, all 65 of you, who entered my Reformation Week Book Giveaway contest. The contest is now closed and we have a winner.

Congratulations to Cari Ferguson, who has won a copy of A Reformation Reader by Denis Janz, compliments of Augsburg Fortress Press. I have emailed her and will mail out the book to her this week.

Also, our contest included a poll for everyone to include their favorite Reformer. By far, the readers of Fundamentally Reformed view John Calvin as their favorite Reformer. Here are the full results of the poll:

  • John Calvin – 34
  • Martin Luther – 14
  • Unstated – 6
  • John Knox – 3
  • John Wycliffe – 3
  • Jonathan Edwards – 2
  • John Huss – 1
  • William Tyndale – 1
  • Peter Waldo – 1

My Winning Entry for the Sharper Iron Writing Contest

~ Bob Hayton

Sharper Iron just posted my entry to their writing contest today. I was one of three winners this year. The topic of my paper may be of interest to some of my readers so I’ll excerpt the beginning paragraphs and encourage you to go over to Sharper Iron and read the whole thing. You can discuss it at SI or here in the comments.

Let the minutiae speak: The place of genealogies, numbers, and parallel passages in the King James only debate

“Things that are different are not the same.” So says the title of Mickey Carter’s book advocating the exclusive use of the King James Bible. This sentiment is a fair summary of the mindset of most King James only (KJO) advocates. The differences between Bible versions demand a judgment. Which Bible is right?

Troubled by differing Bible versions, many sincere Christians seek for answers. One side affirms that no doctrine is affected by the relatively minor differences between Bible versions. The message is the same, but finer points and particular details may be slightly different. A typical KJO position jumps in and says this can’t be right. Verbal inspiration is useless without the preservation of those very words of God. In fact, we need to know each and every word, in order to live (Matt. 4:4). All differences, even word order and spelling differences, matter (Matt. 5:18). Differing versions cannot both claim to be translations of the perfect, inspired Word of God.

On the face of it, the KJO argument makes sense. When we’re speaking about the Bible, shouldn’t every little difference matter? Some respond with manuscript evidence that calls into question the choice of the King James Bible as a perfect standard. Others have shown that the various proof texts for word perfect preservation don’t actually promise a single, identifiable, word-perfect copy of the Bible. And prior to 1611, where was such a copy to be found, anyway?

In this paper, I want to take us down a road less traveled. Rather than looking for a proof text which directly deals with this controversy, I aim to scour the King James Bible itself for examples of the very differences which are said to matter so much. The minor points of Scripture itself, the minutia, should be allowed to speak to this issue. Genealogies, lists, numbers, and parallel passages all have an important bearing on how we should think about “things that are different.” [read the rest of the entry at Sharper Iron]

Update: I have attached a .pdf version of this article here for convenience.

The Push for 5,000

~ Bob Hayton ~ 18 Comments

I have a special mark approaching for my blog. In October, it will be 5 years of blogging. But sooner than that, I will hit the 5,000 approved comments mark.

I’ve run the full gamut of comments over the years. I’ve seen many helped, and several ticked off. I have had hundreds of people share that my story has blessed them and that they find my blog helpful. I’m grateful that sharing my thoughts like this has been a blessing for so many. I’ve also had my share of critics and debates. In the early days of my blogs, we’d run up 50 comments plus and dozens of pages of interaction on some of my posts. Occasionally I’ve had to delete some over-the-top comments, as well, and I won’t even mention all the spam (none of the deleted comments count toward the 5,000, by the way).

I appreciate those who’ve read my blog over the years, and am thankful for all this interaction. I’ve even been blessed to be able to consider many of you as my blogging friends — and meet some of you in person.

In honor of the 5,000 mark soon approaching, I thought I’d do a push for some comments and give out a prize to the person with comment #5,000. I won’t tell you how far away from the 5,000 mark I am, but it is easily attainable by comments to this post, or some of the other recent posts. I would imagine we could hit it today or tomorrow.

The prize will be your choice of one of three books I have available to give away. To enter, just leave a comment on this or any post. If your comment is #5,000 you win. Please until this contest is over, limit yourself to one comment per post with a max of 3 comments per person — to be fair to everyone. To save the expense to me, I’m going to limit the contest to residents of the U.S.A., although I must say I’ve been blessed to have faithful readers beyond the borders of America.

Here are the three books which the winner can choose from. Click on the picture for more details. Thanks again for making this blog successful, and for taking the time to drop comments. I always appreciate the interaction.