Free Words?
Recently I downloaded, for free, several books from Olive Tree. Here is a listing of the free resources for the I-Phone. Free is only on my side of the equation. It cost Olive Tree dollars to place this resources for free in their I-Phone App. and website.
One of the books that I downloaded, Pilgrim's Progress, was written by author John Bunyan when he was in prison. So, he most certainly was not free when he penned his classic work.
Most of the authors of the "free" works wrote under duress and difficulties many centuries ago. John Calvin wrote the Institutes of the Christian Religion in the midst of an busy household and active, and at times, difficult pastorate in Geneva...not in the confines and quietness of a library. He wrote it primarily for his countrymen, the French. "I labored at the task [writing The Institutes] especially for our Frenchmen, for I saw that many were hungering and thirsting after Christ and yet that only a few had any real knowledge of him." God has used this work to educate and edify millions in the faith, even us non-Frenchies.
Whenever we obtain something for free financially, we should ponder what it cost someone else to provide it. Most so, in the "Word of Life" who paid sin's price so that salvation could be "free." Just because something is free does not mean that it didn't cost someone a lot.
One of the books that I downloaded, Pilgrim's Progress, was written by author John Bunyan when he was in prison. So, he most certainly was not free when he penned his classic work.
Most of the authors of the "free" works wrote under duress and difficulties many centuries ago. John Calvin wrote the Institutes of the Christian Religion in the midst of an busy household and active, and at times, difficult pastorate in Geneva...not in the confines and quietness of a library. He wrote it primarily for his countrymen, the French. "I labored at the task [writing The Institutes] especially for our Frenchmen, for I saw that many were hungering and thirsting after Christ and yet that only a few had any real knowledge of him." God has used this work to educate and edify millions in the faith, even us non-Frenchies.
Whenever we obtain something for free financially, we should ponder what it cost someone else to provide it. Most so, in the "Word of Life" who paid sin's price so that salvation could be "free." Just because something is free does not mean that it didn't cost someone a lot.
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