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Meet Cathleen Falsani!

Cathleen Falsani , author of The God Factor and Sin Boldly, is an award-winning religion columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. She attended Wheaton College and holds masters degrees in journalism and theology. She lives in the Chicago area with her husband and fellow journalist, Maurice Possley. Cathleen will be at the National Pastor's Convention in February.

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Sinning Boldly
Recently I turned my reporter's eye on myself and went looking for where grace turns up — in unexpected places and ways, and in relationship with my family, friends and strangers, at home, abroad and in the most unlikely places. The exercise, recorded in the book Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace, was transformative for me, both spiritually and professionally. We will talk about my adventures with grace in the wild and the God of audacious, fierce grace I came to know more deeply in my travels and writing.

Celluloid Spirituality
We will explore “The Gospel According to the Coen Brothers” by examining the spiritual content of the cinematic oeuvre of Oscar-winning filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen. We will discover a rich portrait of post-modern faith in their enigmatic films, from "Raising Arizona" and "The Big Lebowski" to "Fargo" and "No Country for Old Men," and everything in between. We will talk about spirituality in the Coen films as well as the important spiritual lessons in other popular films of recent years.

Former NPC Speaker Speaks About Leadership

Dave Gibbons is the founding pastor of NewSong Church, a multi-generational, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-continental, multi-site church in inner-city Los Angeles, North Orange County, Irvine, and Bangkok. Future NewSong sites include Mexico City, London, New York City, and Seoul. An in-demand speaker and strategic consultant around the world, Dave is founder and CEO of Xealot, a nonprofit venture focused on transforming marginalized communities globally through strategic leadership development and special projects.

Dave was a former speaker at the National Pastor's Convention. View his interview with Leadership Journal by clicking HERE. And read his blog for the Out of Ur blog for Christianity Today by clicking HERE.

Don't miss out on his new book coming in February 2009, The Monkey and the Fish.

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The Monkey and the Fish decodes profound shifts and events taking place in the world today due to globalism, multiculturalism and technology, and introduces an original approach to ministry, church, and leadership known as The Third Culture. The book title refers to an Eastern parable that will challenge you to reexamine fundamental assumptions of the evangelical movement, including erroneous interpretations that have made the church increasingly irrelevant in North America and the global village.

Meet Don Everts!

Don Everts spends time cultivating relationships with college students who are generally skeptical Christians with a passion for evangelism and global justice. He is an area director for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in Boulder, Colorado. Don Everts's latest work for Likewise is the One Guy's Head Series. Don will be at the National Pastor's Convention in February.

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I Once Was Lost: Understanding the Postmodern Skeptic’s Path to Faith
How do people come to Jesus in today’s postmodern culture?  Over the last decade Don Everts and Doug Schaupp have listened to the stories of over two thousand people who have come to follow Jesus.  While the stories were all diverse and varied, certain common themes began to emerge.  The better we understand these “Five Thresholds” that most postmodern skeptics cross on their way to faith, the more natural and relaxed… and even fruitful our witness can become.  Come hear an overview of the “Five Thresholds” and stimulate your own thinking about how people come to faith these days, and what that means for our own relationships and ministries.      

Jesus with Dirty Feet: Proclaiming Christ into Postmodern Ears
Our task has not changed since the earliest days of the church: to hand on that which we have received.  But how exactly we go about proclaiming Jesus to our own generation is the task every preacher and evangelist must carefully ask.  What are some of the characteristics of our own age that we should keep in mind as we speak of Jesus?  And how does that practically affect how we should go about preaching and teaching and speaking of Jesus to those who don’t know him?

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Margaret Feinberg on CNN

Margaret Feinberg, former Alaska resident and author of "Organic God" and "The Sacred Echo" was interviewed on CNN 9/9 about Palin and the evangelical vote. Click Here to watch the clip.

Margaret will be a speaker at the National Pastor's Convention in February. Don't miss you chance to hear her live!

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Meet Andy Crouch!

Andy Crouch is editorial director for The Christian Vision Project at Christianity Today International and executive producer of Where Faith and Culture Meet, a series of short documentary films on Christians creating “a counterculture for the common good.” He is a member of the editorial board of Books & Culture, and a senior fellow of the International Justice Mission’s IJM Institute. His writing has appeared in several editions of Best Christian Writing and Best Spiritual Writing. He lives with his family in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Andy will be at the National Pastor's Convention in February.

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The Church as Agent of Cultural Renewal
We often think of culture as happening "out there" beyond the church's reach. But in fact your church has deep resources in becoming a source of creative renewal in your community and in our society at large. Who are the potential untapped "culture makers" in your congregation? What kind of pastoring and leadership do they need? How can an emphasis on cultural calling actually strengthen the life of the Christian community as well? We will explore both the theological foundations and the practical elements of Christian culture making.

How Green is God?
American Christians are waking up to their responsibility for caring for creation. Yet calls for Christian environmental responsibility have been met by serious questions of politics, economics, and theology. Why do we find it difficult to be Christian environmentalists? Is there a distinctly Christian way to care for creation that avoids both "worshipping nature" and dismissing the world by saying, "It's all going to burn"? This workshop will probe both current controversies in conservation, energy, and climate change and several models of churches that have discovered that Christian stewardship is actually very good news.

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Documentary Screening at NPC!

Don't miss out on your chance to view the screening of the documentary, "As We Forgive," at the National Pastor's Convention on Wednesday, February 11, 2009.

A Laura Waters Hinton film narrated by Mia Farrow, featuring the music of Emmy award-winning composers Lenny Williams and Chris Biondo. Gold Winner at the Student Academy Awards 2008 for Best Documentary and Official Selection at National Geographic All Roads Film Festival.

Could you forgive a person who murdered your family?  This is the question faced by the subjects of As We Forgive, a documentary about Rosaria and Chantale- two Rwandan women coming face-to-face with the men who slaughtered their families during the 1994 genocide.  Struggling to live again as neighbors, these survivors and killers discover the power and the pain of radical reconciliation.

But can survivors truly forgive the killers of their families?  And can the church, which failed at moral leadership during the genocide, fit into the process of reconciliation today? In As We Forgive, director Laura Waters Hinson and narrator Mia Farrow explore these topics through the lives of four neighbors once caught in opposite tides of a genocidal bloodbath, and their extraordinary journey from death to live through forgiveness.

Announcing Craig Groeschel's Blog Tour

Craig Groeschel, author of IT, is going on a book blog tour this September! The blog tour features 10 blogs over two weeks.

Blog tour schedule:
September 15 – Swerve (Craig Groeschel & Bobby Gruenewald)
September 16 – Scott Hodge
September 17 – Catalyst blog and On the Journey (Brad Lomenick)
September 18 – Velocity (Dave Ferguson)
September 19 –Zondervan blog
September 22 – Monday Morning Insight (Todd Rhoades)
September 23 – Innovative Ministry Leader (Sean Lewis)
September 24 – Tony Morgan Live
September 25 – Leading Smart (Tim Stevens)
September 26 – FlowerDust (Anne Jackson)

While the tour kicks off next week on the Swerve blog, you do not have to wait to find out more information about IT, interact with IT, and have a chance to win IT.

Each day this week the Zonderban blog will be posting something about IT — videos about IT, messages about IT, ways to win IT, and ways to interact with others about IT. Today, try to solve the puzzle below and post your time in the comments section (NOTE: If you played this game back in April, try to beat your time from then. Check other times by looking at this post: http://zondervan.typepad.com/zondervan/2008/04/ecpa-game-moe-1.html).

Visit www.zondervan.com/it for more information.

NOTE: You may have to sit through a 10-second ad before playing the game, below.  Don't click on the ad.  Wait for the ad to run until you see the headline "Discover the picture!" Then click Play.  Instructions on playing the game: Click on a block to move it.  Line up the blocks in the number order you'll see in the lower right-hand corner.

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