Archive for July, 2007
Last week’s giveaway, Fabricating Jesus, is now on its way to Nick Kennicott, our fourth winner. Nick is the associate pastor at Woodlawn Baptist Church, Garden City, GA. We’re already looking forward to reading his review!
Free Book Friday is starting to grow—be sure you don’t miss your chance to grab your free book(s).
This week’s Free Book is Questioning Evangelism: Engaging People’s Hearts the Way Jesus Did, which is not a book against evangelism. The author, Randy Newman, is advocating a slightly different approach to sharing the gospel.
For more information about the book, see our PastorBookshelf Overview.
Don’t forget—there are two ways to get your name into the drawing for this week’s book:
- Blog Option: Link from your blog to the post that announces the week’s free book and then post the link to your blog post in the comments section of our post
- Email Option: For those of you who don’t have a blog and don’t want to start one, send out our post via email to at least 10 people and carbon copy matt (at) jcacompany.com on the email.
See the Free Book Friday page for more details.
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Congratulations to Nick Kennicott—this week’s Free Book Friday winner!
Nick, we’ll ship your copy of Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels to you as soon as you email your shipping address to matt (at) jcacompany.com. We hope you enjoy the book and find it helpful in your ministry!
Remember, this isn’t the end of Free Book Friday—we’ll have another book up for grabs beginning next Monday. Be watching for the post so that you can get your link up and your name in the hat to win.
There’s no reason not to try it!
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Fabricating Jesus, this week’s Free Book Friday feature, is almost gone!
This week’s winner will be chosen before long, so don’t wait to get your name in the drawing!
Visit our Free Book Friday main page for details on the contest, and see our PastorBookshelf Overview for more information on Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels.
Remember, there are two ways to enter:
- Link to the Fabricating Jesus post from your blog
- Email a link to the Fabricating Jesus post to ten of your friends (and matt at jcacompany.com)
After that, just wait for your name to be announced!
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Everyone is talking about J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter. The seventh and final contribution to the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, has already made history as the fasting selling book of all time, selling “an estimated 8.3 million in the first 24 hours.” In just a couple days it has nearly 700 customer reviews at Amazon.com and nearly 100 reviews at Amazon.co.uk. It currently sits at the number one position in Amazon’s bestseller list, followed by the audio version of the same book.
Discussions about the appropriateness of the series for Christian youth and the existence of Christian themes abound, with loud voices on both sides.
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Thanks to those of you who participated in our most recent Free Book Friday book giveaway, and congratulations to Peter Butler, pastor of Second Reformed Church of Irvington, New Jersey, for winning Wayne Grudem’s Evangelical Feminism: A New Path to Liberalism? We hope you enjoy it and profit from it!
This week’s free book is Craig Evans’s Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels. (See our Overviews entry for links to excerpts, reviews, and more.)
To participate in the giveaway, you simply need to (1) post a link to this entry on your blog and leave a note in the comments of this post linking us back to your blog entry or (2) email this post to 10 friends or colleagues and carbon copy matt at jcacompany.com. Find out more at our Free Book Friday page.
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Our third Free Book Friday book giveaway is now officially concluded. This week’s book, Evangelical Feminism: A New Path to Liberalism?, will be sent to Peter Butler!
Congratulations, Peter! Don’t forget to send your shipping information to matt at jcacompany.com so that we can get your book in the mail as soon as possible!
Look for next week’s book announcement on Monday—you won’t want to miss it.
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Today is the deadline to get your name into the drawing for this week’s Free Book Friday feature: Evangelical Feminism: A New Path to Liberalism? by Wayne Grudem. There are two easy ways to enter—either post a link to the post on your blog and leave a comment on our post, or send an email to ten of your friends (include matt at jcacompany.com for verification). It’s completely free, and everybody has the same chance to win!
Get your name in soon!
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The New York Times covers a story about Adnan Oktar (a.k.a. Harun Yahya), an Islamic creationist from Turkey whose massive Atlas of Creation (PDF) has been mysteriously appearing in the mailboxes of thousands of professors, scientists, and museums around the globe.
In the United States, opposition to the teaching of evolution in public schools has largely been fueled by the religious right, particularly Protestant fundamentalism.
Now another voice is entering the debate, in dramatic fashion.
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Josh Sowin, who blogs at Fire & Knowledge, has a helpful post on reading over at the Desiring God blog.
Christians are people of the book: God purposely chose the medium of typography to deliver his revelation to us. In that book, we are commanded to love God with our hearts and our minds (Matthew 22:34-40). This gives Christians a clear command to use their intellects — to be, in other words, a kind of intellectual.
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In case it’s not obvious, this is NOT a book recommendation! It’s a post to inform you of the efforts of some to justify their sinful choices.
Better Bibles Blog points us to a new study Bible that seeks to show that the New Testament doesn’t condemn same-sex sexual behavior: the Study New Testament for Gay, Lesbian, Bi, and Transgender: With Extensive Notes on Greek Word Meaning and Context, published by Smith and Stirling Publishing, “an independent Australian publisher that will not be intimidated by subgroups of the Religious Right or other intolerant Fundamentalist Christian groups, nor will be bought out by other publishers who are a front for such groups.”
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