The fine folks at LifeWay are giving away an ebook well worth having, W.A. Criswell’s “The Scarlet Thread through the Bible.” Here is the giveaway page where you can download the book.
You can read more about the book from Trevin Wax’s article at his site, which includes his foreword.
I never heard Dr. Criswell preach this sermon, but I did hear him preach numerous times at the Convention and the Southern Baptist Pastors Conference. While he was pastor, it was my privilege to preach at the George W. Truett Chapel, a mission of First Baptist, Dallas in the West End of that city. It seemed like a fluke. A friend who was a member of that mission and a fellow student at East Texas Baptist College (now a University) had asked his roommate to supply for the pastor of the mission (I think it was on an Easter Sunday) who was away in Missouri preaching a revival and who later became a missionary to Brazil. My friend’s roommate, however, had met a lady with gorgeous red hair, and he had fallen so hard that he either went home to meet her parents or took her home to meet his. The friend was desperate; he turned to me which was the same as saying sick ’em to a dog viewing a bone. I remember two things from that experience, namely, the bust of Dr. Truett in the Foyer and the pastor of the mission sending me Dr. W.T. Conner’s book, Christian Doctrine, which I would study in the fall at St. Louis Baptist College (then connected to Hannibal LaGrange College) under Dr. W.L. Muncey, Jr. The roommate married the red head and became a newspaper editor, and I went on to preach and wrestle with difficult churches and knotty theological issues which opened the door to understanding how biblical theological truths actually work to empower and enable a believer to become balanced, flexible, creative, constant, and magnetic, the result of synthetical approach and comprehension of the two-sidedness of biblical truths.