Abraham Piper is the Web Content Editor at Desiring God. He also blogs at 22 Words.

My wife Molly met our sponsored child in El Salvador yesterday. I recommend reading her thoughts on the day.

**Contest Closed**

We have 12 different packages on sale for Christmas this year. One of them is especially for pastors.

Leave a comment on this post with the name of your pastor or retweet this with his name, and tomorrow morning we'll draw one of your pastors to send the gift set to for free.

Update: The contest is over now and the winners have been notified. Thanks for participating.

You’re going to be buying presents for all sorts of people this Christmas, so we thought for our Christmas sale we'd put together sets of books and other resources aimed at different kinds of readers.

We've created 12 packages and put them on sale. We hope that this will make it easy to choose a perfect present for some of the people on your list.

Check out your different options:

• The (Almost Complete) John Piper Library
• For Mom
• For Dad
• For the Little Ones
• For the Bargain Hunter
• For the Student
• For a Missionary
• For Your Pastor
• For a New Christian
• For Anyone in a Hurry
• For the Conference Lover
• For the Armchair Theologian

Tomorrow morning, you can watch a Q&A with John Piper live from 8-11 AM, Central Time.

The questions will be a combination of those that have been emailed to us recently and those that are submitted via Twitter during the Q&A.

To send in a question tomorrow, simply Tweet it and add #apj to your Tweet. We'll be selecting questions as they come in.

For those of you (most of you, probably) who can't join us live tomorrow, the answer is, yes, we'll be recording it and making it available within a few days.

Many of you are trying to download the free Desiring God audio book from Christian Audio and having trouble. Their servers are overwhelmed because there's so much interest.

We're happy so many people want the book, but we're sorry for the frustration, too! Please remember the book will be free for all of November, so you may want to try your download again in a couple days when traffic has leveled out.

In this month's World Magazine, John Piper considers Bertrand Russell's "tragically odd" worldview.

1. Taste & See articles from 1992, 1993, and 1994

2. The Prodigal's Sister (free online book)

3. Small group study guides for

• Why We Believe the Bible (PDF)
• What's the Difference? (PDF)
• TULIP (PDF)

4. Transcript of Sinclair Ferguson's 1990 pastors conference message, "The Biblical Basis of the Doctrine of Eternal Punishment"

5. Funeral Message for Ozzie Nelson

6. "Other Sheep I Have," John Piper's message to students at Crown College

7. Audio and video of "Beholding Glory and Becoming Whole," John Piper's message to American Association of Christian Counselors

"Is religion absurd or good for the world?" As many of you know, this is the question Doug Wilson and Christopher Hitchens discuss in their movie Collision. Today they're also answering it at The Huffington Post.

John Piper differentiates between the natural and moral possibility of sin as they relate to Jesus' perfection.

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For more Q&A with John Piper, check out Ask Pastor John. New episodes are posted 3 times a week.

After preaching in Germany, John gave the same messages in Samara, Russia. You can now listen to these with Russian translation:

• Feel Christ
• Think Christ
• Preach Christ
• Q&A

Desiring God is participating in Tim Challies' "Free Stuff Fridays" this week. Go on over to his site to enter to win

• When I Don’t Desire God DVD
• God is the Gospel DVD
• Don’t Waste Your Life book
• The Complete Romans Series audio DVD
• Desiring God

While in Germany, along with the 3 messages he gave at the Hirten Konferenz, John Piper also was interviewed and participated in a panel discussion. You can now listen to these:

• Interview
• Panel discussion

He also preached a Sunday morning message entitled, "What Makes the Good News Good."

Tim Challies is doing a series of interviews about different ministries. This week, we hear from DG's Senior Director of Strategy, Matt Perman.

Check out the interview if you're curious about...

• How Desiring God began.
• What our main goals are.
• How we want to serve you.
• Why we post everything for free.
• Who our leaders are.
• How big we are—both our staff and budget.
• How we're financed.
• What we expect over the next 10-20 years.

You can now listen to or watch "An Evening of Eschatology," a conversation about the end times with John Piper, Doug Wilson, Sam Storms, and Jim Hamilton.

You can also read John Piper's thoughts on this event for some introduction to the issues being discussed.

You can now listen to John Piper's message from this morning. The manuscript will be posted tomorrow.

You can now listen to the panel discussion.

Follow along with the conference at TheaterofGod.com.

Mark Talbot gave a message entitled, "The Broken Stage in the Theater of God: Sin and Suffering in Calvin’s World." You can now listen to it or read the notes.

Follow along with the conference at TheaterofGod.com.

Marvin Olasky just finished his message entitled, "The Secular Script in the Theater of God Calvin on the Christian Meaning of Public Life." You can listen to it or read the notes.

Follow along with the conference at TheaterofGod.com.

This morning, Doug Wilson gave a message entitled "The Sacred Script in the Theater of God: Calvin, the Bible, and the Western World." You can now listen to it or read the notes.

Follow along with the conference at TheaterofGod.com.