4/7/2024 0 Comments Mike erre subversive kingdom![]() When I saw the final copy of this, recently, I was just dazzled - nice illustrations bring to mind a Mollie Katzen cookbook, too, or some of our own old books like Lappe’s Diet for a Small Planet. To the Table: A Spirituality of Food, Farming, and Community Lisa Graham McMinn (Brazos Press) $19.99 due early January 2016 The minute I heard of this it catapulted to the top of my most-eagerly awaited list McMinn is an expert writer, a woman I’ve read for years, whose books are good and true and lovely. ![]() ![]() We suspect most will actually be here a bit sooner then the announced date in some cases, considerably earlier. Know anybody else you could forward this to? Happy New Year, ya know… Thanks for helping us spread the word. We’ll deduct the discount from the regular retail price shown but won’t bill you or use your credit card until we actually send them on their way to you. We’ll be shipping them as soon as they arrive. We will have them as soon as anyone, and suspect that you might be delighted to be among the first to receive some of these. We are happy to announce these that are sure to please many of our customers and Hearts & Minds friends. ![]() We think you will enjoy reading about 12 more soon-to-be released titles. Just use the links to our secure order form, below. Perhaps you might want to PRE-ORDER them here, now,Īt our BookNotes 20% off promo. The first few months of 2016 are going to be exciting for book lovers, at least the sort of readers that follow BookNotes, so I felt badly not naming a few other equally anticipated titles. No sooner did I hit post, and put that BookNotes newsletter up on Facebook, that I wished I had named a few more equally interesting, important, forthcoming works. (That is, he will, we’ve heard, summarize in readable style his major works Desiring the Kingdom and Imaging the Kingdom and what will be, someday, Embodying the Kingdom.) Smith We Are What We Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (Brazos Press $19.99) which in many ways is going to be a lucid and action-able summary of his much-discussed “Cultural Liturgies” project. Lastly, we were pleased to recommend the eagerly-awaited early-March 2016 book by James K.A. Skip back to that previous BookNotes post if you didn’t see our description of it. It is really a fine book, fresh and helpful. We suggested for you the January release of the new Andy Crouch book, his fantastic follow-up to Playing God called Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk & True Flourishing (IVP $20.00.)Īlso, we suggested the mid-February release of It’s Not Too Late: The Essential Part You Play in Shaping Your Teen’s Faith (Baker $15.99) by our good friend Dan Dupee, President of the CCO, about parenting older teens and college-age young adults. I know this was appealing to some, and our 20% discount was appreciated, too. I predicted already that they will be in the running for Best Books of next year! While we can easily take pre-orders for almost any legitimate book, we picked three that are going to be just wonderful, and, we think, important. If anyone has authority to speak of the challenges of truly being the Church in suburbia, it is Mike Erre with ROCKHARBOR as a living example.I hope you saw the last BookNotes post (we heard that some who subscribe didn’t see it in their inbox the day before Christmas.) We invited you to download a book cover and give a last minute gift of a PRE-ORDERED book. It is a community of faith striving to live it's values in impressively unique ways despite it's location in the plush sun-drenched mall-topia of Orange County. You may also be interested in learning more about ROCKHARBOR Church in Costa Mesa, CA where Mike Erre is the Teaching Pastor. As a pastor myself, I highly recommend it. This is excellent and accessible material that you can easily use in a small-group setting or to inform your teaching. To take the vision of this book seriously would lead to a beautiful living out of our faith as followers of Christ in the midst of our culture. That's called syncretism and as The Jesus of Suburbia makes clear, it's a big mistake. A challenge to guard against being so lulled by the comforts and trappings of suburban-American life that we literally begin to mix values that don't belong in our faith. An excellent perspective on how we often sell out the true call of our faith for a consumer substitute.
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