Our goal at PastorBookshelf is to build a resource that pastors and those in the ministry (or training for it!) would find helpful–particularly in regard to books. In pursuit of this goal, we create or compile content in three different veins:
Overviews—Links, in about ten categories, for specific books.
Reviews—Written by members of our Review Program or links to reviews elsewhere.
Excerpts—Brief passages to familiarize with the author’s style, the goal of the book, etc.
It’s our hope that these three tools can help to better equip our readers to make informed decisions in what to read or what to buy.
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!
Moody offers some insight on how we should think about the Potter phenomenon by pointing us to Jonathan Edwards’ interaction with the popular Enlightenment thought of his day.
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.
Be sure to let your friends in on this little secret, too!
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!
Don’t forget to get your chance to win a free book from PastorBookshelf! This week’s book is Preaching God’s Word by Carter, Duvall, and Hays. It’s completely free, and all you have to do to qualify is spread the word!
We are also starting a new weekly book giveaway program called Free Book Friday. From the PastorBookshelf Blog:
Nearly every Monday we will pick a book and announce it here on the PastorBookshelf Blog. To enter to win the book, link to the post that announces the week’s free book from your blog and then post the link to your post in the comments section of our post (not necessary if your blog sends out pingbacks automatically). On Friday we will randomly select a winner and mail the book to you free of charge. We’d love for you to review the book for PastorBookshelf Reviews, but this is entirely optional. Our plan is for this to be a nearly weekly occurrence. Spread the word! One qualification: you must be (1) preparing for pastoral ministry, (2) in pastoral ministry, or (3) a trainer of ministers.
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