“Walk Humbly” (Hide the Word 9), the ninth in a series of albums designed to help people memorize Scripture, is now available.

Walk Humbly consists of 20 scriptures (including references) set word-for-word to contemporary music, and I don’t mean muzak.

Memorizing Scripture has been one of the biggest blessings in my life.  Often when I’ve faced temptations or trials, God has brought Scriptures to my mind that I’ve memorized.  Sometimes I’ve recalled verses that have enabled me to encourage or strengthen others.

I’m able to memorize verses much easier when they’re set to music.  You can memorize Scripture while doing other things, like driving, canning pickles or roasting coffee.

A number of the verses on “Walk Humbly” have to do with humility.  Other Hide the Word albums focus several verses on themes like trusting God in trials (”Through the Waters” – Hide the Word 8).  Every HTW album includes several gospel-specific verses as well.

Today we’re giving away a free Scripture song from “Walk Humbly,” 1 John 1:7.  Listen to it by clicking the player below [RSS readers may need to click through to the post].

Download it for free by clicking here.

Please check out the samples from this and other Hide the Word albums at forevergratefulmusic.com.  We’ve priced the CDs to make them affordable, and you get a 15% discount if you purchase a set.  If you can’t afford a CD, email me your name and address and I’ll send you one free.

Clean Out Your Reader
If you’re like me, you blog reader can become obscenely cluttered. I see a blog that looks mildly interesting, click on the ’subscribe’ button, and “bang” (it really makes that noise) it shows up in my feed reader. The result? I end up with information overload. I’m forced to skim lots of blogs without really getting anything out of any of them. If this describes you, do a purge on your blog reader so that you’re only focusing on blogs that are important to you. Currently my blog reader contains ten feeds, which is very manageable for me.

Do Some Real Reading
The tendency with blog reading is to skim, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. However, if blog reading is to have any real value in our life, we need to do some real reading. Find one or two well written, God-centered, Christ-exalting blogs and read them faithfully every day. For me this looks like reading Al Mohler’s blog every day. Other possibilities: Challies, Between Two Worlds, Desiring God, Josh Harris.

Do Some Skim Reading
Okay, I know this sounds like I’m contradicting myself, but there is a place for skim reading blogs. I can do a quick skim of the blogs that really matter to me to see if there is anything that I should stop and read. And of course some blogs lend themselves to this more than others. For example, I subscribe to a number of ‘productivity’ blogs. It’s easy to scan these for any useful information.

Subscribe To One Secular Blog
There are a number of blogs written by non-Christians that are a means of common grace to me. As I mentioned, I like reading blogs that focus on productivity. Most of these blogs aren’t written by Christians, and yet by reading them I’ve gained some great ideas on how I can be more effective in serving the Lord. Using discernment, find one secular blog that you think will motivate or inspire you. Examples: Lifehacker, Life Remix (Note: I don’t endorse all the content on these sites)

Take Everything With A Grain Of Salt
The blogosphere is full of opinions and ideas. Some are good, some are terrible, and some are heretical. Before you read a blog, read your Bible. By doing this you’ll gain discernment, which will help you navigate the murky waters of the blogosphere.

These are just my opinions on blog reading. I hope you find them helpful…

A Biblical Understanding of Sleep – C.J. Mahaney. Click here to get it.

Cravings and Conflict – C.J. Mahaney. Click here to get it.

Enjoying Grace and Detecting Legalism – C.J. Mahaney. Click here to get it.

The Main Thing (Part 1) – C.J. Mahaney. Click here to get it.

The Main Thing (Part 2) – C.J. Mahaney. Click here to get it.

Desiring God also has hundreds of dynamite sermons by Piper. Get them here.

All the messages from the New Attitude conference along with accompanying videos can be downloaded here.

Ravi Zacharias ministries has a wonderful collection of audio and video resources, including the Richard Dawkins and Alistair McGrath debates on the existence of God. Get them here.

Think you’re smart? Try reading some Al Mohler articles.

You can read some of the giants of the Christian faith thanks to our friend Google.com. For example:
– Augustine
– John Bunyan
– Charles Spurgeon

Download free music from Sovereign Grace Ministries:
– Let Your Kingdom Come
– All I Really Need
– Across The Great Divide (remix)
– Hope Has Come

Download Dave Harvey’s booklet on Missiology here, his booklet on church leadership here, his booklet on the call to ministry here, and C.J. Mahaney’s booklet on election here.

Download “Why Small Groups” here, “How Can I Change” here, “This Great Salvation” here, “Disciplines for Life” here, and “The Rich Single Life” here.

Randy Alcorn has loads of free resources on the Eternal Perspective Ministries website. Get them all here.

The website LibriVox.org has many free audio books for download. A quick search showed John Bunyan, Charles Spurgeon, and G.K. Chesterton

I didn’t even scratch the surface on the amount of free stuff out there. Please feel free to add to this list.