Skye Jethani is someone that when you hear them speak or read what they wrote you are thrown off by their wisdom and insight. Last week I had the opportunity to talk with Skye over the phone about some of the issues facing Rookie Pastors and I look forward to sharing what he had to say.
But first I thought it might be fun to give away 5 copies of his new book With
Thanks to Skye for his work and to Thomas Nelson for providing this awesome resource.
Before I tell you how to win one of the copies you should watch this video about With.
To enter to win all you have to do is help get the word out:
- Comment below on one of the following: how do you see people relating to God, what was the last book you read, or why are you awesome. +1 entry.
- Tweet this post (including a thank you to @skye_jethani) for another +1 entry.
- Share this post on Facebook for another +1 entry.
- RT’s also greatly appreciated.
The contest will come to a close Wednesday (10/19) at 10pm EST.
The winners will be randomly selected and announced here.
Contest is Closed
And The Winners Are:
@zannemarx
Vicky Hunt
John Alexander
@chrisfromcanada
Michael Levitt
I’ll try to track you down in the next couple of days or you can email directly.
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I just came from spending 24 hours with 600 junior high students. I watched as they related to God through being fun, crazy, and able to engage in worship and relationships with each other.
I just finished “You Lost Me” by David Kinnaman.
I’m awesome because I have a new son, Maddox, who is 2 months old. That just makes me awesome. Ha.
I also agree that you are awesome John, now go to bed. After that Junior High retreat you deserve a week off.
Right now I see my JHM studetns relating to God By acts of Service. If you want to know God more, Serve Him. Seeing how this is taking root in our students is the fun part.. From serve days to them teaming up on their own with out the need of my hand one leadership is where the real money is. The sooner me as youth pastor is replaced with Jesus in their eyes then we are really moving forward..
I am reading a few books right now, for the moment going through Dougs PDYM is great with one of my leaders… been awhile since i read it as meticulously as i am now and hearing the insights of one of my Rookie Leaders is great.. really fires me up..
Awesome.. i am awesome cause i went surfing today got thrashed bad, bloody and wrecked but i went with a fringe student and it was all worth the God talk on the way home
I’m reading several books for seminary on leadership within the church. They’re good stuff but I’m always looking to broaden my reading horizons. And this “With” book would be perfect.
Highly recommend you picking it up if you don’t win
I see people relating to God by getting outside the walls of our church, and getting out into the community; serving the needs of those that need help.
I have a few books in the rotation right now: 360 Leader by John Maxwell, Replenish by Lance Witt, and Rumors of God by Whitehead & Tyson.
Blessings!
what do you think of Rumors of God?
I mostly see people relating to God from beneath God, from a great distance. They see God as “High and Lifted Up,” but not as “God With Us.” Psalm 114 speaks of the transcendence of God, a God who is above the whole Earth, a powerful God who can shake the earth. Yet it speaks of the imminence or nearness of God, a God who keeps house in your neighborhood (in the capital city of Israel) and was concerned with water provisions for a wandering band of nomads without a city. As we read the Bible, it becomes obvious that God can be near and He can be big and powerful, as He sees our needs. The fact of omnipresence makes Him always within our reach…even when we can’t see Him. So, the God who is High and Lifted Up, is right beside you. For more of this point, see my blog post titled Is the Lord High and Lifted up or is God With Us? http://www.reason2believehim.com/1/post/2011/06/is-the-lord-high-and-lifted-up-or-is-god-with-us.html
Having heard Jethani talk at length about the book, I’d say that you will really connect with it
Right now, I’m reading through Crazy Love by Francis Chan. I usually fly through books but I decided to slow down with this one, and read it through like it asks (taking time to watch the clips and everything.)Last Wed. my youth director and I were trying trying to figure out what to do for our midweek group. Remember one of the videos, we went to http://www.juststopandthink.com and we were able to have a great midweek by discussing questions we found in “Religion: Why Isn’t It Working?” Its almost like God led me to the book and has shown me more than just words on a page,and I was able to pass on a lesson or two
That’s awesome Nick, slowing down is hard but necessary. Can’t consume to a closer relationship with God.
I am awesome only because of God. He constantly blesses me and lets me know on a regular basis that He will always be there for me. I am awesome because of Him. No One Above Him. God bless. Peace.
Truth. Bomb.
The last book I read was Religion Saves by Mark Driscoll and it was very well researched and very well written. I especially loved the chapters on humor and the emerging church (very ironic connection I know).
Just took a look at the table of contents and from the subtitle looks like that chapter on the EC was trying to explore what I attempted to with my thesis a few years back. Not sure I want to look at it for fear of realizing how undeveloped my thoughts may seem. Thanks for sharing.
Currently reading The Hole In Our Gospel by Richard Stearns and One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp. But, just finished the entire Lord of the Rings series for the second time.
Heard Voskamp speak at Story and was impressed, would you recommend the book?
Started David Platt’s “Radical Together” yesterday. Finishing up Ian Morgan Cron’s excellent “Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and Me.” And mired somewhere in the middle of Metaxes’ “Bonhoeffer.” They’re all worthwhile books.
Thanks for offering these free ones Josh!
Really looking forward to Cron’s memoir.
I read Bonhoeffer and was fairly disappointed. Felt like Metaxes had an agenda and looking into it more his scholarship appears shaky. What have been your thoughts on it?
I’m intrigued as to what agenda you think is there. I don’t have many further thoughts, as I haven’t read anything by Metaxes before and didn’t know much about Bonhoeffer before either. It seems to be a pretty thorough book though.
I wrote a couple of pieces previously on the book:
My review
Comments on Tim Challies Review
Thanks for those links. I’ll be on the lookout as I read for what you and Tim referenced. At the very least, it’ll force me to read Bonhoeffer himself, which I attempted to do decades ago, but I was a teenager then, and how much does a teenager glean or remember from tackling a Bonhoeffer work?
I just finished reading “Love Wins” and am almost done “Erasing Hell.” It has been great to read both books together, in order to see how each handle the relevant texts
Huh, didn’t know those two wrote books on hell. . .
Would love to win a copy! Thanks to both you, Josh, and Skye for the giveaway!
Last book I read was crazy love, I know I am a little late but it was a busy spring/summer. I’m still wrestling with some of the things Francis Chan brought up in it.
Last book I read was crazy love, I know I am a little late but it was a busy spring/summer. I’m still wrestling with some of the things Francis Chan brought up in it.
Thanks for sharing Brent, sadly you are only going to get one comment entry though. Nice try.
Currently sporadically reading Re:Jesus by Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch for pleasure, and Covenant Economics by Richard Horsley for school (among many other books/articles).
I see people relating to God in different ways, and while I may not relate to God in those ways I think it’s cool. God created us as individuals. So, I see some people relating to Him in the acts of love they do for the disenfranchised in our community. Or in the crazy intellectual (yet stimulating) conversations they have about Him at school. Or in just sitting with a coffee and watching the sunrise in His presence.
Unfortunately, I also see people relating to God, or trying to, on their own terms and conditions. I think we all do that to a degree, as we’re human, but when I see the striving to know Him as He is, that’s encouraging to see.
As an aside, anyone else notice that Skye kinda looks like Peter Fuller (the previous lead singer for Newsboys) in this video? Anyway, thanks for the book contest, sir!
Last book read: the Millenials. Very good read…
Sitting in my Kindle, in that “I’ll read it when I have time” pile.
really good content in Millenials, but after a few chapters is simply repeats information in a new way.
Last book I read was a re-read: The Pursuit of God by Tozer. Second time around was even better!
absolutely classic.
Reading through some theology books for seminary. “Christian theology” by Erickson right now. Read a skye jethani book last year..interested in this book as well!
I’m currently reading Missional Communities by Reggie McNeal (free stuff from The Nines, woo!), and The Big Book of Small Groups, as well as an interesting piece of work by John Bunyan, entitled A Case of Conscience Resolved.
I recently finished reading? Encountering The Old Testament… my Old Testament Survey course with Liberty Online.
Now, I’d love to be able to add this book to my list of currently reading =D
This is a great topic! I think Skye is exactly right that even most people who call themselves Christians actually live under, over, from and for God rather than with Him. They see God as a means to an end rather than desiring God as an end to itself. Actually,
I really liked Skye’s first book, The Divine Commodity (http://bit.ly/3aOU5n) and look forward to this one.
Will be sharing this on twitter @PaulSteinbrueck and FB http://facebook.com/LiveIntentionally.
I also think the video is great and worth a blog post unto itself: http://bit.ly/oktGMo
Thanks Josh!
Looks like a great book. It’s so true that many don’t understand what this really looks like. I would love to read this book.
I’m reading several right now, but the last book I finished was the 4 Hour Work Week. I’m tweeting and posting on Facebook too. Thanks!
Have things changed in terms of your work process after reading 4 hour work week?
Somewhat. I had a little trouble with some of the selfishness infused in it, but there were still some sound principles I could take hold of too.
yeah I could see that
taking a class on Lectio Divina right now, so we’ve read a few classics including a Foster books with lots of excerpts. but we read A Testament of Devotion by Thomas Kelly and i was completely blown away by it. great read.
just started reading You Lost Me by Kinnaman after hearing him speak, some really great research on the absent 20somethings of the church.
Ryne, I led my high schoolers through a basic form of Lectio Divina and they absolutely loved it. I tried it with a couple of leaders first and it went really well so I did it with the whole group and wished I did it sooner.
Currently reading Close Enough to Hear God Breathe: The Great Story of Divine Intimacy by Greg Paul. Great book so far. Would love to read this one. Would add a review to my blog.
I just finished reading “Bonhoeffer” by Eric Metaxas. It was a fantastic book. I learned so much about Dietrich the man, his theology and convictions, as well as what was going on in Germany leading up to and during WWII. I cannot recommend it too highly.
The last book I read was “All Creatures Great and Small.” I’m three chapters into “Erasing Hell.” FYI, I am doing a review series on the book over on my own blog. When I finish the Chan book, I am looking forward to starting Eric Metaxas’ biography of Dietrich Boenhoeffer.
Finishing up The Shack. Read it intentionally slow to wonder over the perspective. Want to get it digitally just to be able to keep encouragement at my fingertips. Also reading Brain Rules by John Medina and listening to The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo. That, however, is too involved to listen to, i think i’m going to get it in print.
Skye’s book sounds thought provoking and i appreciate that you (and others) offer these giveaways. Even if you don’t win, there is a world of perspective to be gained from reading through the comments and reviews. By then you know if you want to go ahead and purchase the book anyway. Thanks for the opportunity!
no problem. I read the Shack pretty quick and would be well served to read it slowly.