John Piper’s biographical sketch delivered at the Desiring God 2012 Conference for Pastors focused on the life of J. C. Ryle. In conjunction with the conference, you can get Holiness by J. C. Ryle for free until midnight, February 6, 2012. Visit logos.com/holiness to add this title to your LOGOS library for free!

Today at the Desiring God 2012 Conference for Pastors they announced the new iPhone / iPad App from Desiring God. With this new app, you can listen to, watch, and read over 5,000 resources from the teaching and preaching ministry of John Piper.  Search for “The Desiring God App” in the iTunes store to learn more.

Desiring God recently made the videos and syllabus from the preaching course John Piper did for Re:Train available for free at DesiringGod.org.  Links to the videos and syllabus are below:

• The Pastor as Prophet (Part 1)
• The Pastor as Prophet (Part 2)
• The Pastor as Prophet (Part 3)
• The Pastor as Prophet (Part 4)
• Syllabus (PDF).

LOGOS Bible Software in partnership with Desiring God is offering Memoir and Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne for free on LOGOS Bible Software or the LOGOS iPhone / iPad app. John Piper’s message this year will focus on Robert Murray McCheyne, an influential nineteenth-century Scottish Presbyterian minister and missionary. Their hope is that this resource will better help attendees prepare for the upcoming 2011 Desiring God National Pastor’s Conference, running January 31 through February 2, 2011 in Minneapolis, MN. Even if you’re not going to the conference, you can still download the resource for free.  Visit the LOGOS blog here:  LINK for details.  If you’d like to learn more about Robert Murray McCheyne, you may also want to consider these other titles from Christian Focus Publications (see  below).  If you’ll be attending the conference, be sure to visit the Christian Focus Publications tables in the book hall. Tell Anthony that Shaun sent you. (Don’t worry, he knows who I am.)

John Piper’s new graphic novel, “The Gadarene” will be unveiled this weekend at the national Desiring God Conference.  Try for your chance to win a copy at drewblom.weebly.com.  The contest runs through 5:00 PM September 30, 2010.

Books by Pastor John:

I’m used to getting free coffee at church, but it’s not very often that I come away with free books. This past Sunday, Desiring God provided each family two new books by John Piper. To all the folks at Desiring God, “Thanks for sharing!”

There was a bit of well intentioned humor on the opening night of the Desiring God conference when Mark Driscoll presented John Piper with a new coat from his friends at Mars Hill Church.

Check the web site out here:  LINK.