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A Household Gospel #AddAWordRuinaChristianBook

So it started a few days back with a twitter trend #AddaWordRuinaMovie and transformed shortly into #AddaWordRuinaChristianBook. I realized that was a great opportunity to have some fun with my own book A Household Gospel . I ended up giving away some paperbacks and a dozen or so digital copies to those who ruined my book title. Here were the ingenious title ruiners.

Ain't No Party Like A Household Gospel Party #AddaWordRuinaChristianBook
— Mathew Sims (@GraceForSinners) October 8, 2013

A Household Gospel Quartet #AddaWordRuinaChristianBook @GraceForSinners #ahgospel
— Jenny Mac Rogers (@JennyMac1207) October 8, 2013

@GraceForSinners a Household Full of Monkeys Gospel #AddaWordRuinaChristianBook
— Glenys A. (@gall217) October 8, 2013

@GraceForSinners A Household Gospel Devotional #AddaWordRuinaChristianBook
— Juan Carlos Torres (@jcarlostzavala) October 8, 2013

@GraceForSinners A Divided Household Gospel (pass the dang budget!) #AddaWordRuinaChristianBook
— Nick Horton (@NickHorton) October 8, 2013

"@GraceForSinners: #AddaWordRuinaChristianBook A Divided Household Gospel (http://t.co/IWKSSjR7Lz)
— Doug (@gimsonrawigg) October 8, 2013

#AddaWordRuinaChristianBook A Household it now, hit it Gospel, A Little Household on the Prairie Gospel @GraceForSinners (more than 1 word:)
— Melissa A. Wade (@Honeybee22274) October 8, 2013

@GraceForSinners The Household Cleanser Gospel. #AddaWordRuinaChristianBook
— Art Carden (@artcarden) October 8, 2013

@GraceForSinners A Household Cleaner Gospel #AddaWordRuinaChristianBook #ahgospel
— Coby Munsey (@cwmuns) October 8, 2013

A Household Body Gospel #AddaWordRuinaChristianBook #ahgospel @GraceForSinners
— CandidCannon (@CandidCannon) October 8, 2013

“@hereiblog: A Household Gospel Party #AddaWordRuinaChristianBook #ahgospel @GraceForSinners
— Drew Tucker (@drew_tucker) October 8, 2013

A Medieval Household Gospel #AddaWordRuinaChristianBook #ahgospel @GraceForSinners
— Mark Lamprecht (@hereiblog) October 8, 2013

A Household Tips Gospel #AddaWordRuinaChristianBook #ahgospel @GraceForSinners
— Mark Lamprecht (@hereiblog) October 8, 2013

@GraceForSinners A Household Gospel Sing-along #AddaWordRuinaChristianBook
— Alastair Roberts (@zugzwanged) October 8, 2013

A Household Prosperity Gospel #AddaWordRuinaChristianBook #ahgospel @GraceForSinners
— Mark Lamprecht (@hereiblog) October 8, 2013

@GraceForSinners A Household Appliances Gospel #AddaWordRuinaChristianBook
— Alastair Roberts (@zugzwanged) October 8, 2013

Organic Household Gospel #AddaWordRuinaChristianBook #ahgospel @GraceForSinners
— Mark Lamprecht (@hereiblog) October 8, 2013

@GraceForSinners A Dollhousehold Gospel #AddaWordRuinaChristianBook
— Dustin Lair (@revlair) October 8, 2013

@GraceForSinners: A Dahmer Household Gospel #AddaWordRuinaChristianBook
— Bury Who's Sane (@BarackwardObama) October 8, 2013

A Household Hints Gospel #AddaWordRuinaChristianBook #ahgospel @GraceForSinners
— Mark Lamprecht (@hereiblog) October 8, 2013

@GraceForSinners A Household Waste Gospel (so wrong) #AddaWordRuinaChristianBook
— shaynus (@shaynus) October 8, 2013

@GraceForSinners @zugzwanged A Manson Household Gospel? ;-)
— Adele Chapman (@AdeleChapman2) October 8, 2013

I Feel Change Comin’ On

Two thousand and thirteen has been an amazing year. My wife and I are having our third daughter Adele Lila Kay. She’ll be here in December and I’m sure she will change our family dynamic--something we experienced when our second child Maddy arrived. That’s not a bad thing. It’s been a wonderful change with Maddy. I’m excited to see what Adele will add to our family.

I also published my first book A Household Gospel . I learned a lot about the publishing process. I was supremely naive before sta...

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If you plan on purchasing Walking with God through Pain and Suffering, consider supporting Grace for Sinners by purchasing from Amazon.
10 out of 10 Stars
Author: Timothy Keller
Publisher: Dutton
Reading Level: Moderate

Timothy Keller wades into the depths of the human experience with Walking with God through Pain and Suffering . It’s a book that “take[s] life seriously . . . [and] want[s] to help readers live life well and even joyfully against the background of these terrible realities [of pain a...

New Covenant Polemics: Jesus Commands the Storm

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If you plan on purchasing The Unfolding Mystery, consider supporting Grace for Sinners by purchasing from Amazon.
10 out of 10 Stars
Author: Edmund Clowney
Publisher: P&R Publishing
Reading Level: Easy

Dr. Edmund Clowney’s The Unfolding Mystery is a classic text originally published in 1989. It’s only now reaching its second edition which is a shame. Biblical theology is coming into its own on a popular and scholarly level (rightly so) and Clowney well deserves to be heard and read widely. May...

The New Exodus: Rehearsing the Gospel Story in the New Covenant

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Four Ways Churches Can Equip Families to Rehearse the Gospel

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This is true primarily because we are a body....

Edmund Clowney: God’s Story Unfolds in Christ

“Anyone who has had Bible stories read to him as a child knows that there are great stories in the Bible. But it is possible to know Bible stories, yet miss the Bible story. The Bible is much more than William How stated: “a golden casket where gems of truth are stored.” It is more than a bewildering collection of oracles, proverbs, poems, architectural directions, annals, and prophecies. The Bible has a story line. It traces an unfolding drama. The story follows the history of Israel, but it...

Review: Robbie F. Castleman’s Story-Shaped Worship

If you plan on purchasing Story-Shaped Worship, consider supporting Grace for Sinners by purchasing from Amazon.
10 out of 10 Stars
Author: Robbie Castleman
Publisher: IVP Academic
Reading Level: Moderate

The ideas of liturgy and story-shaped worship have been central in my study over the last year. It began with reading Contours of Pauline Theology then fleshed itself out in some of what I wrote here and elsewhere and finally in A Household Gospel . My primary argument is the gospel must be centra...

Review: Robbie F. Castelman’s Story-Shaped Worship

If you plan on purchasing Story-Shaped Worship, consider supporting Grace for Sinners by purchasing from Amazon.
10 out of 10 Stars
Author: Robbie Castleman
Publisher: IVP Academic
Reading Level: Moderate

The ideas of liturgy and story-shaped worship have been central in my study over the last year. It began with reading Contours of Pauline Theology then fleshed itself out in some of what I wrote here and elsewhere and finally in A Household Gospel . My primary argument is the gospel must be centra...