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With the holiday season approaching we want to help you make a difference in people's lives with gifts that bring inspiration and the message of the gospel.

"Jesus lived with the awareness that God is doing something, right here, right now, and anybody can be a part of it. He encouraged his listeners to search, to question, to wrestle with the implications of what he was saying and doing. He inspired, challenged, provoked, comforted, and invited people to be open to God’s work in this world. Wherever he went, whatever he did, Jesus started discussions about what matters most, because for Jesus, God is always inviting us to open our eyes and join in." -Rob Bell

Many people have been touched by the NOOMA series and NOOMA is currently featuring many of these stories on Flannel. Consider giving a unique and inspiring gift to people in your life this year. Right now on zondervan.com use offer code 980646 to receive a FREE NOOMA when you purchase any two NOOMAs.

About NOOMA
NOOMAs are short films between 10 and 14 minutes long, about God and our lives. NOOMAs are appropriate for personal and small group settings, congregational meetings, and much more. Like parables, they use the experiences of our lives to communicate the fullness of life through Jesus, tackling issues like forgiveness, discipleship, and unconditional love. The study materials accompanying each NOOMA encourage meaningful discussion with relevant questions and biblical references.

Rob Bell Seminar: Poets, Prophets, & Preachers. Don't Miss It!

Join Rob Bell, Shane Hipps, and Peter Rollins for
POETS, PROPHETS, & PREACHERS,
a seminar for those serious about reclaiming the art of the sermon. Here's a sampling:

• Rob Bell — The Original Guerilla Theatre
• Rob Bell — The Story We're Telling
• Peter Rollins — Returning to the New: An Introduction to Transformance Art
• Shane Hipps — How Technology Shapes the Sermon
• Rob Bell — The Fig Tree and the Failure of Language
• Rob Bell — Fumbling Around with Your Radar
• Peter Rollins — For Those With Ears to Hear: Parables and the Lost Art of Provocation
• Shane Hipps — You Are the Medium
• Rob Bell — The One Thing I've Never Heard Someone Talk About That Has Changed Everything for Me

Bring a spouse or a friend (one registration covers 2 people)

Learn More about the Seminar

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Rob Bell | 2 new covers!

The God's Aren't Angry DVD, coming July 2008: Jesus Wants to Save Christians, coming October 2008:

Rob Bell podcast | Jesus Wants to Save Christians

Click on this link to listen to an April 15, 2008 podcast of Rob Bell speaking about his upcoming book with Don Golden titled Jesus Wants to Save Christians: A Manifesto for the Church in Exile.

Jesus Wants to Save Christians | Rob Bell and Don Golden | Coming October 2008

There is a church not too far from us that recently added a $25 million addition to their building.

Our local newspaper ran a front-page story not too long ago about a study revealing that one in five people in our city lives in poverty.

This is a book about those two numbers.

It's a book about faith and fear,

wealth and war,

poverty, power, safety, terror,

Bibles, bombs, and homeland insecurity,

It's about empty empires and the truth that everybody's a priest, it's about oppression, occupation, and what happens when Christians support, animate and participate in the very things Jesus came to set people free from.

It's about what it means to be a part of the church of Jesus in a world where some people fly planes into buildings while others pick up groceries in Hummers.

Jesus Wants to Save Christians
A Manifesto for the Church in Exile
By Rob Bell and Don GoldenComing October 2008Join the Facebook group

Rob Bell: Everything Is Spiritual

In the Hebrew scriptures there is no word for "spiritual." And Jesus never used the phrase "spiritual life." Why? Because for Jesus and his tradition, all of life is spiritual. But what does that really mean?

You've Seen Rob Bell in the NOOMA videos. Now See Rob teaching about how everything is spiritual from his sold-out national speaking tour. Click here for more information on the Everything Is Spiritual DVD from Zondervan.

Time Magazine features Rob Bell

Zondervan author Rob Bell was featured in Time Magazine this past week. Click here to read the full article.

Rob Bell is author of Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections between Sexuality and Spirituality and Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith. Rob's recent Everything is Spiritual tour was released on DVD this past month.

Rob Bell's Sex God video on CNN

Rob Bell's Zondervan book Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections between Sexuality and Spirituality was featured on CNN on Sunday, December 2nd. Click here to watch the CNN video.

Rob Bell on CNN this Sunday

CNN-TV is scheduled to broadcast a report about Rob Bell and his book Sex God, this Sunday at 7:40 AM. Thought you'd like to know in case you want to catch it.

On the banks of the Clyde

[Notes while on Rob Bell's Calling All Peacemakers tour.]

Glasgow was a strange time. I arrived by train at about the same time that the attempted attack on Glasgow airport occurred, and having left London just 5 days earlier, and just prior to the car bomb attempts there, really brought home the closeness of the attacks. It is ironic that at a time like this I am travelling on a tour about non-violence.

The event itself went smoothly in the rather grand setting of the Royal Concert Hall, although the Scottish crowd were full of enthusiasm.

Rather surreal time afterwards, when I was offered a life back to my hotel by a couple of radio presenters (they do a show together) with whom I had just met. However, the driver got lost and I ended up getting a delightful tour of the motorway circling Glasgow whilst seeing my hotel retreat into the distance! It was fun (in a funny kind of way)!

I am now on the train down, managing to escape the worst of the delays etc) to Cambridge for the final night tonight.

Ian Matthews, Zondervan's UK Sales and Marketing Manager