Choice Blog Entries – Christian Piracy, Preaching and Book Covers
I love to point out some of the choice blog entries in the blogosphere. Some people point to many posts, I typically share my favorite three that I read this past week. So here are my choice blog entries for this week.
A Plea for Christian Piracy
Author and blogger Kester Brewin makes the case that priracy springs from capitalism as a critique of it. He says, “Pirates are born from the detritus of the merchant and ruling classes – and condemned as heresy by the establishment, is later embraced as orthodoxy.” Check out his series on the topic, this entry is part 5.
If I Just Preach a Good Sermon – They Will Come: Three Dying Myths (of Christendom) about Preaching
Author and blogger David Fitch has a great entry on preaching. Not only does he identify three myths about preaching, but gives some great thoughts on the kind of preaching we “desperately need in post-christendom.” He says, “Preaching is a speech-act. it is the proclaiming of the truth out of Scripture over us so as to bring the truth into being – by the Spirit. Read it.
On Beautiful Book Covers
As a person who is currently working with a designer on some books cover ideas, I really appreciated this entry that theologian and blogger Ben Myers does on book covers. I will probably be asking your opinions on books covers of the first book coming out of Ecclesia Press.
JR, could you send me a link of how the Hollywood church used to look, with sofas and tables. I have been looking all over the web. I need to sell the idea to our church in San José Costa Rica and what a better way than pictures.
Sorry to bother, you are a busy man,