Free Christian Audio Books
Christian Audio and Sermon Cloud have partnered to give you TWO FREE christian audio books.
This September, everyone is able to download G. K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy.
1. Go to Sermon Cloud, scroll down the right side and click on the September Orthodoxy link.
All people who sign-up on Sermon Cloud are able to download an additional FREE audio book.
1. Go to Sermon Cloud and sign-up!
2. The free code w/link will be on its way for you to enjoy!
Thanks everyone, brought to you by Ekklesia 360 Church CMS .
Read MoreMulti-site without Video! Our SDSU Church Launches
Appreciate your prayers and support, Kaleo Church launched our SDSU church as part of our multi-site, multi-congregational approach we gathered from Reedemer Presbyterian in NY and Harbor Presbyterian. (My co-elder David blogs on the SDSU church launch.)
Join the movement: kaleo@SDSU myspace.
Read MoreFor Young Women Only
Kelly a friend who blogs at AbleKnife told me about a book she read, For Young Women Only: What You Need to Know About How Guys Think. Kelly wrote an post about the book: For Young Women Only at AbleKnife. Leif (pastor at Mars Hill) introduced me to For Women Only: What You Need to Know about the Inner Lives of Men, which he has brides-to-be read in his premarital counseling.
Leif told the guys NOT to read the For Women Only book because they would be frightened how much their wife-to-be would know about the weaknesses of men. My wife read it and let's say, uh… it's helped her outlook and her understanding of me. I haven't read the book, so I can't really tell, but there has been change. So guys, take a stab and recommend this to your wife it may be a good tool in the conversation of your marriage. FWO Description:
What's going on in a man's mind? From their early days, every woman has struggled to understand why males behave the way they do. Even long-married women who think they understand men have only scratched the surface. Beneath a man's rugged exterior is an even more rugged, unmapped terrain. What bestselling author Shaunti Feldhahn's research reveals about the inner lives of men will open women's eyes to what the men in their life – boyfriends, brothers, husbands, and sons – are really thinking and feeling. Men want to be understood, but they're afraid to "freak out" the women they love by confessing what is happening inside their heads. This book will guide women in how to provide the loving support that modern men want and need.
I found this dating game from the FYWO book:
Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper offered for free this month by Billy Graham Evangelistic Association .
Description: God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life. In his book, “Don’t Waste Your Life,” John Piper challenges you to make the glory of God your singular passion. Request your free copy online now!
HT: Challies
Read MoreChurch Online Confessional Booth
Craig Groeschel is creating some controversy. His church created a website (mysecret.tv) that caught the attention of the NY Times, Intimate Confessions Pour Out on Church’s Web Site. The article begins:
On a Web site called mysecret.tv, there is the writer who was molested years ago by her baby sitter and who still cannot forgive herself for failing to protect her younger siblings from the same abuse. There is the happy father, businessman and churchgoer who is having a sexual relationship with another man in his church. There is the young woman who shot an abusive boyfriend when she was high on methamphetamine.Then there is this entry: “Years ago I asked my father, ‘How does a daddy justify selling his little girl?’ He replied, ‘I needed to pay the rent, put food on the table and I liked having a few coins to jangle in my pocket.’ ”
Mark Driscoll had his Confessions of a Reformission Rev.: Hard Lessons from an Emerging Missional Church. Now Groeschel promises to take it one step further, with the Fall release of Confessions of a Pastor: Adventures in Dropping the Pose and Getting Real with God . MySecrets.tv seems to be a prelude to Groeschels own book of confessions. The chapters of the book carry titles such as I Can’t Stand a Lot of Christians, I Hate Prayer Meetings, I’m Afraid of Failing and Most of the Time I Feel Incredibly Lonely. The book description states:
The Dark Side of a Pastor's Life – A Breath of Fresh Air Are you tired of pretending? Living walled up? Going only skin deep? Craig Groeschel , pastor of the thriving LifeChurch.tv, sure was. And in his refreshingly raw and real book, he comes clean. Not that he has anything other than typical, human stuff to confess. Check out a few of his musings: I have to work hard to stay sexually pure, I hate prayer meetings, sometimes I doubt God , and I can't stand a lot of Christians . Through his incredible honesty, he opens the door for you to follow suit. Are you ready to dig deep and let God shine through the genuine you? No more living just to please others. No more hiding. You can be who God called you to be. You can live for an audience of One.
Yet, there is some backlash amongst Catholics who feel Protestants aren't holding confession in a high regard. "This is no substitute for the sacrament of Confession. Why did Protestants abolish Confession, anyway," writes Wilfred at titusonenine.classicalanglican.net.
More of confessions: One of the most famous confessional sites is a secular site, called Postsecret. Donald Miller has a great story of using a confessional booth in Blue Like Jazz.
Read MoreFree Derek Webb – How free is FREE?
Derek Webb's free CD is available! And it is free. Yet, I've been trained to think, nothing in life is free. So what's the catch? Derek Webb writes:
as an artist (and often an agitator), this is something i am keenly aware of. my most recent record 'mockingbird' deals with many sensitive issues including poverty, war, and the basic ethics by which we live and deal with others. but i found that music has been an exceptional means by which to get this potentially difficult conversation going. and this is certainly an important moment for dialogue amongst people who disagree about how to best love and take care of people, to get into the nuances of the issues.
one of the things that excites me most about the future of our business is how easy it is becoming to deliver music to people who want to hear it….so this is why, on september 1st, we're launching freederekwebb.com, a place where anyone can go online and not just hear but actually download, keep, and share 'mockingbird' completely for free. In addition, freederekwebb.com will give you an opportunity to invite your friends to download 'mockingbird' in order to get them in on the conversation as well.
we hope this bold campaign will provide a jumping off point for conversations about all of these issues, and communicate my commitment to playing my part in starting them. so please help us spread the word: on september 1st, 'mockingbird' will be set free! (Free Derek Webb site)
So what is the cost of free?
First, Derek Webb gets to engage a larger audience to promote his 'agenda'. Thankfully, I believe and support the conversation Derek Webb is trying to promote. His use of free music is a valuable tool in the communication with (persuasion of) others as it relates to faith, God and "many sensitive issues including poverty, war, and the basic ethics by which we live and deal with others." Derek music does a great job speaking into this conversation.
Secondly, Derek Webb now has a lot of email addresses:
We will collect your e-mail address and zip code. We will store and use your e-mail address to send you updates, tour dates, new releases, news on Derek Webb, and merchandise for sale on the derekwebb.com web site. This information will not be shared with, given, rented, or sold to third parties.
Of course this is not new, we are all accustomed to handing out our email address in order to get something online.
Third, FreeDerekWebb is powered by NoiseTrade. NoiseTrade provides free music and viral recommendation marketing. This is a great idea to help artists capture interest in a world where survival requires a fan base. (Yet, would this work with a lesser artist not of Derek Webb's status? There already is a abundance of 'free' offerings for independent artists. That remains to be seen. Can Derek send an email to you to try you to migrate to other independent artists he recommends? That waits to be seen.
CONCLUSION: Free Derek Webb costs you your contact information. But after listening to the album, it is well worth the cost.
tags: viral marketing, christian music, derek webb
Read MoreDrew Goodmanson
CEO of Monk Development creators of Ekklesia 360. Co-Founder of Kaleo Church where I served as Pastor for 8+ years and helped coach several church plants in San Diego. Co-Founder of the GCM Collective, President of the Board at the Center for Church Communication, Board Member of the Entrepreneurship Organization, Internet/Technology Advisory Chair at the Christian Leadership Alliance. Connect
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