I have an extra copy of Mark Scandrette, Practicing the Way of Jesus, and I’m giving it away!
(You can my review here.)
All you have to do is tell me why you deserve it. Please try to make me laugh. And please, don’t fail.
If you really want to go all out, you can post your begging and pleading to your own blog and link back here. Make sure the page shows up in trackbacks if you choose this option.
Contest ends Sunday whenever I feel like pronouncing a winner!
Simply put I’m a poor follower of Christ that does not get out of the mountains of Colorado very often and need to figure out how to expand my mindmind and understand a crazy person like Mark Scandrette
I need this book! I am a functional illiterate in Tennessee, and one leg of my picnic table is too short. If I had this book, then all of our round foods would stay on the table.
I need this book because… I decided to take a tai chi class this morning. And I was by far the youngest and most un-Asian person there – and perhaps that may not seem funny, I was also then the worst tai-chi-er daly city had ever seen. Besides the lady with her foot
Oops – it finished before I did. But the foot-in-cast lady and I received more “support” than any other tai chi-ers. This is funny, now really it is. Pick me!
i live in portland…your sister city. I ride my bike to work…like the guys on the cover.
I am trying to love people by riding my bike…like people on the cover….but I just can’t seem to get along with all the people in my city who insist on naked bike rides. Please send me the book…how do I love naked bike riding, hippy, portlandians????
I already use the phrase ‘the way of Jesus’ all the time with people who hate right-wing religious fanatics. They think the way of Jesus is the worship of Glenn Beck (and i tell them no! That’s not the way of Jesus! That’s the way of Joseph–Glenn Beck is a mormon…duh!) —Portlandians think we want to stamp out Gay’s like the people from Westboro baptist…but I tell them…no! No! That’s not the way of Jesus.
Since i already use the phrase, and ride bikes like the guys on the cover, I deserve the book so that I can understand more clearly what i mean to my people in portland when I use the phrase ‘the way of Jesus’
Additionally:
I applied to Fuller’s PhD program in NT…and I did not get in. I still have yet to receive my consolation prize from Fuller. THIS IS IT!!!!
The Tour de France was highly anticipated by the Belgian people. Jurgen Van den Broeck ended fifth last year and was heading for a top 3-spot this year. A week ago he fell. The result: a collapsed lung, two broken ribs and a broken shoulder. All the others who could survive in the top dropped out of the Tour. And then, yesterday, the day you issued the competition, another Belgian Jelle Vanendert ended second, completely unexpected. Our national hopes revived instantly.
The bikers on the cover of the book will forever remind me of the revived hope I experienced on that very same day (it was a mountain ride, btw, same as the cover).
Of course, since I am from Belgium, it would cost you more to send it to me, but I hope that my plea will help you get over this “mountain top” in your deliberation.
I suspect that Mark Scandrette is a zombie-robot sent from the future to initiate a series of events that’s going to end in humanity’s doom. (If you need a mental image, think “Terminator” meets the Days of Future Past storyline from the X-Men comics.)
I believe he’ll start with the publishing of a book that, rumor has it, discusses what it means to live as a follower of Christ.
As someone who wants to follow Christ, I want to love my neighbor by exposing the dark conspiracy that is behind Scandrette’s mission to destroy the world.
So I’m asking you to do your part to save our fellow human beings by mailing me a free copy of this book, which I will read, decipher, and pass on the appropriate information to the authorities …
… before it’s too late.
I deserve this book because I’ve never been here before, and will likely not make a habit of it. It will be an exercise in humility for you, and further stoking for the flames of my vanity that eat me from the inside. Jesus said something about doing that kind of stuff.
I deserve it so I can have an excuse to build more bookshelves, and thus an excuse to buy more books. My logic is flawless.
Its very simple why I need this book:
I applied to PhD programs and wasn’t accepted this round: rejection.
My wife and I have been CPE/chaplaincy residents at hospitals in Houston for this year. Our residencies are coming to an end but we haven’t been able to find jobs yet: rejection.
My hair stopped growing on the top of my head (a long time ago): rejection.
I tried to use my rail pass the other day and it didn’t work: rejection.
So, you see, I’ve been experiencing a lot of rejection lately. To not receive this book may send me into a depression from which I’ll never recover. We wouldn’t want that, would we? Plus, I like the rush of getting new book in the mail (particularly a free book – which is good in the current job market).
Pick me because I live in the UK, and I can;t see that it says US only anywhere. We are your poor relations and as such we deserve to be included in these giveaways. Particularly as I have 5 kids that I homeschool, and I need some extra help with their discipline! (A weighty book would come in very handy).
he seems like one of those emerging types. i plan to skim the book for potential problems, pronounce him a heretic, and write another book about how this one sucks and you’ll go to hell if you contemplate agreeing with it. so i’ll be giving back if you give to me. of course, you have to give first- that’s how it works.
Because my Hebrew intensive class is leading me to the kind of a-shalom-iness that desecrates the sermon on the mount.
I would sum up my rationale for receiving this book with a story:
once, there was this kid who got into an accident and couldn’t come to school. But when he finally came back his hair had turned from black into bright white. He said that it was from when the car had smashed him so hard.
I look forward to reading this book.
It would be a terrible waste to give me this book. Don’t do it.
So was a winner ever pronounced?