Learning About Google From Piper
December 16, 2007 – 1:46 pmI’ve learned much from Dr. John Piper. One area in which he has, until now, NOT been able to teach me about is how to best use Google and take advantage of their tools. That has changed.
First, let me commend to you this post by Piper on Desiring God’s blog and give you the following snippet:
Have you ever wondered how you will do in the hour of final trial? The gunman has you in his sights and asks, “Are you a Christian?” Here is a strong word to give you hope that you may do better than you think.
“If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you” (1 Peter 4:14).
This encouragement from Peter says that in the hour of unusual threat (whether insult or death) there will be “a Spirit of glory and of God resting on us.” Doesn’t that mean that God gives special help in the hour of crisis to those who suffer because they are Christians? I don’t mean he is absent from our other sufferings. I just mean that Peter went out of his way to say to those who suffer “for the name of Christ” will experience a special “resting” on them of “the Spirit of glory and of God.”
This may account for some of the astonishing testimonies of martyrs.
Second, look at where that link he has points. To Google Book Search. More specifically, to a complete version of a book by a dead guy (Baxter) on Google Book Search. And it has a downloadable PDF to go with it.
So yeah… go play with it. I just found:
- The Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin
- Selections from the Unpublished Writings by Jonathan Edwards
-Ben
2 Responses to “Learning About Google From Piper”
Wow, that’s awesome. I have Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, which has some crazy stories of martyrs in the early church.
By Ray Li on Dec 16, 2007
thats pretty sweet. He gives us the Grace we need right when we need it.
there’s a lot of free stuff online. ever been to http://www.ccel.org?
By john on Dec 16, 2007