Everything New (Coming Pentecost 2012)
“Jeff Cook offers an honest voice in the midst of too many saying the same thing with subtle, monotonous, meaningless differences … There’s more in this little book than its length indicates. Digest this book.”
Scot McKnight. Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies at North Park University.
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“Everything New presents Jesus and his mission in beautiful and compelling ways … Jeff’s book will challenge your thinking, comfort your spirit, and reconfigure the way you think about Christianity. I highly recommend it!”
Preston Sprinkle. New York Times Best Selling Author. Associate Professor of Biblical Studies, Eternity Bible College.
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King (Free ebook releasing Ash Wednesday 2012)
In the ancient world, crosses communicated to everyone that the violent, the brutally ambitious, and the merciless reign over the earth. Crosses were not just the way people died. Crosses were instruments of slavery. Crosses announced the rule of death and evil, dysfunction and despair.
But this is no longer the case.
Because of one man, the cross is no longer an icon of death but a symbol of life. The cross is no longer the tool of a dysfunctional world but the sign that this world is being remade. The cross is no longer a picture of oppression or despair; the cross no longer screams out that God is absent or that death is the future of all. Because of Jesus, the cross has a different message.
The cross now announces that all that was once sick can be restored, that evil will not have the last word, that God has not abandoned us like so much trash but that he is near in a fundamentally new way. Above all, the cross will never again be the sign that the wicked rule the world, for the cross displays that only this kind of man is worthy of a title like “king.”
