Posts tagged ‘blog tour’

1 May, 2012

This Week: Think Christianly Blog Tour – Jonathan Morrow

by Andrew Rogers

This week reviewers and book lovers across the blogosphere will be posting reviews and discussions about Jonathan Morrow’s Think Christianly. If you’re unfamiliar with the book here’s a quick snapshot:

Jonathan Morrow believes that only when Christians learn to present a compassionate, engaging, and informed voice to our culture can the church again become a place the world turns to for answers. Think Christianly gives church leaders practical tools for helping their congregations thoughtfully engage today’s cultural questions.

It’s the type of book that ministry leaders are going to want to have on their shelves for reference time again. Many of the chapters are topical in nature and would be helpful, quick resource when your dealing with hard questions in your ministry.

I’ll be keep track of the participating blog reviews here. Enjoy the conversation!

Apologetics Guy
MGPC Pastor’s Blog 
Theology for the Road   - “ I highly recommend this book!”
Tom Farr  - “Easily one of the best books I’ve ever read.”
Christi Naow 
Panorama of a Book Saint 
The Ruthless Monk 
The Squirrel Factor 
These Second Chances Will Define Me 
Let Them Come 

“Think Christianly, in a compelling and accessible way, equips Christians young and old to engage the culture winsomely, intelligently, and confidently.” – Chuck Colson

You can also follow the tour on Facebook at Facebook.com/EngagingChurch

26 March, 2012

Blog Tour This Week – “Your Church is Too Safe”

by Andrew Rogers

Mark BuchananAll this week the blogosphere will be filling with reviews of Mark Buchanan’Your Church is Too Safe . I’ll be keeping a running list of the reviews here and tweeting the links with @EngagingChurch. Join us for the tour and find out if your ministry needs to be a little bit more dangerous.

Reviews posted so far:

MGPC’s Pastor’s Blog
Can’t Catch My Breath 
Borrowed Light
The Squirrel Factor
Tom Farr 
Against Nothingness 
Keeping the Main Thing 
Nauvoo Pastor 

23 March, 2012

Think Christianly Blog Tour – Sign up for a free book

by Andrew Rogers

Blog tours. You gotta love’em. Blog tours are a time when free books are given out and lots of meaningful conversations happens online. Is there anything better? (Probably.) But because this is a blog about books, I’ll say “definitely not!” ;-)

We’ll be hosting a blog tour for Jonathan Morrow’s book Think Christianly: Looking at the Intersection of Faith and Culture April 30 – May 4th. If you love books that help you discern how to interact with cultural trends, if you love books that help you understand the Christian worldview, if you’ve got a soft spot in your heart for apologetics, and if you love books that will help you encourage others to make better decisions: this book is for you. Here’s a video from Jonathan that discusses a bit more about the book:

See the table of contents and read a sample PDF here.

Sign up for the blog tour with this convenient google doc. Books will be shipped out next week. We’ll limit free books to the first 75 people to sign up!

19 March, 2012

Reminder – Your Church is Too Safe blog tour is next week!

by Andrew Rogers

Mark BuchananHere’s a friendly reminder for everyone who signed up for the blog tour for Your Church is Too Safe by Mark Buchanan:

It’s next week!

So, if you haven’t finished it yet, or if you’ve not started penning your review you’ve still got a whole week to work on it. Keep in mind that reviews can be as short as a paragraph and that we ask that you post your review in two places, on your blog and on some other book site that takes reviews. You can post it any time during the next week.

We are looking for honest, helpful reviews. You don’t have to like the book or agree with every statement, but if you critique it, please critique constructively. Helpful conversations around a book are a great way to actually make an impact for the kingdom. Books change hearts and minds. You never know how God might use the blog tour to bless his church.

Looking forward to a great discussion next week!

-AR

2 March, 2012

Love is an Orientation blog tour is coming

by cubfann

We’re excited to announce the Love is an Orientation Blog Tour! During the week of March 12 Zondervan will be sharing blog posts of  reviews and thoughts on the new DVD curriculum from Andrew Marin, Love is an Orientation: Practical Ways to Build Bridges with the Gay Community.

Marin aims to equip Christian communities to find peaceful, productive ways to build bridges with the gay community. In the introduction, Marin writes:

 Rooted at or near the center of the constant social unrest and political culture wars that cover our landscape today seems to be the disconnect between the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community, evangelicals, and conservatives in general. Each group has become subhuman to the other; a mere voting bloc that is preyed on and pressured by extreme activism tearing the fabric of our churches and government apart. It’s our time, right now, to step up and lead our culture forward by practicing what it means to build bridges among division, letting our surrounding world know that impact and authority are earned through those who know what it means to have love as their orientation.

It’s a topic that generates a lot of strong opinions on both sides. Marin has lived his message in his Chicago neighborhood, and his lessons are demonstrated in the DVD curriculum. The stories of lives that have been transformed by love are significant and the possibilities for further transformation in cities across the country are endless.

Keep an eye out for the blog tour coming in just a couple weeks. In the meantime, you can view a trailer for the curriculum here and watch the first session from the DVD below:

20 February, 2012

Blog Tour Sign Up: “Your Church is Too Safe” by Mark Buchanan

by Andrew Rogers

Mark BuchananYour Church is Too Safe is the newest book by Canadian pastor and author, Mark Buchanan. This book is one part manifesto, one part encouragement from a sage, and one part a call-you-out-of-your-soft-ministry reality check. By the end of the book you’ll yearn for your church to have the same power and authenticity as the church of the New Testament, and you’ll have some new ideas on how to actually make that happen.

Another great aspect of this book, Buchanan is a real wordsmith. You can download a PDF sample of the book here, or read my blog from a few weeks back on Chapter 5: “Going to Mordor.”

The blog tour is the last week of March (25th – 31st). Here is the sign up form:

(The blog tour sign up is now closed. Thanks for your interest, and please check back to read the reviews. – AR)

11 July, 2011

The “On the Verge” Blog Tour

by Andrew Rogers

Alan Hirsch, Dave Ferguson, exponentialAll this week bloggers will be posting their reviews of Alan Hirsch and Dave Ferguson’s On the Verge: A Journey into the Apostolic Future of the Church. I’ll be keeping a list right here of all of the participating blogs. I encourage you to read a few reviews and join the discussion!

THE BLOG TOUR
Philip Watkins
My World

Your Daily Strength
Simul Iustus Et Peccator
outWORD
Sojourning Spiritually
Against Nothingness
Mark Howell Live
The Squirrel Factor
Mobilizing Students Mission
Chris Blackstone
A Faith that Risks
Step Up to the Call
Tom Farr’s Blog
Ministry Matters
My World
Sidewalk Theologian
Your Daily Strength
Christian Humanist
The Heart of One
From The Outside Looking In
See Through
Revitalize Your Church
The Burner
Kingdom Life
Borrowed Light
You See Kids…

27 June, 2011

On the Verge Blog Tour – Special note for Canadians

by Andrew Rogers

I just wanted to let all of the Canadian members of theOn the Verge Blog Tour know that your books are shipping today! Because of the recent strike your books had not yet shipped. Glad to hear things are back on the up and up for you all. Look for On the Verge in your mail box soon.

10 January, 2011

This Week: “To Transform a City” Blog Tour

by Andrew Rogers

To Transform a City by Eric Swanson and Sam WilliamsThe To Transform a City Blog Tour starts today! All week long (Jan. 10-14) bloggers will be discussing Eric Swanson’s and Sam Williams’ new book, To Transform a City: Whole Church, Whole Gosple, Whole City.

I’ll be keeping a list of all the blog links here. Be sure to join the discussion as we wrestle with questions like: How does the ministry of a local church change within this new reality? How does it stay the same? How can we lead others to be externally-focused Christians? To proclaim the good news and transform their communities – within the city? What is the emerging story of what God wants to do in the cities of the world?

Also this week the book will be available for 50% OFF with Free Shipping at www.Zondervan.com The offer is good only January 10-14. Use this discount code 370032.

The Squirrel Factor 
Borrowed Light
Harmony Church
The Assembling of the Church and also Saved Through Faith  
Encourage 
J. Gordon Duncan 
BLESSrev 
Are We There Yet? 
Ponderings by Andrea
Examiner.com 
Mark Howell Live 
In Defense of Orthodoxy 
Locker Room of Life 
DashHouse.com 
Can’t. Catch. My. Breath. 
Your Daily Strength 
Sam & Ashley Sutter

27 December, 2010

Next Week: “To Transform a City” Blog Tour

by Andrew Rogers

To Transform a City by Eric Swanson and Sam WilliamsWe’re already only a few days away from the To Transform a City Blog Tour, January 10-14. The sign-up for this blog tour was right before Christmas, so I figured everyone might benefit from a reminder. If you’ve received your copy, please post your thoughts up sometime next week.

Here are some things other people have said about the book to whet your appetite:

“Anyone serious about the mission of Jesus will be wonderfully enriched, stretched, and encouraged in very tangible ways by this book.” – Dan Kimball, author, They Like Jesus but Not the Church

To Transform a City is a primer for how the whole church can take the whole gospel to the whole city. It is a “must-read” guidebook for those engaged in kingdom transformation.” – Kevin Palau, President, Luis Palau Association

To Transform a City allows you not only to see authentic examples of churches around the world engaging their city but also to synthesize some of their commonalities in a way that is transferable and reproducible. My hope is that the fruit of this book will be an engaged church announcing the kingdom in clear, simple and profound ways in the heart of our communities.” – Dr. Rick McKinley, Pastor, Imago Dei Community Church

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