In Lumine - huge book shipment to Russia

While we were in Chernigov last week we helped Jake and Olya prepare 2,600 In Lumine books to be shipped to Russia. Out of these books we will be filling two large orders as well as getting our books to a pastors' conference in Samara where John Piper will be speaking in October. Getting our books into Russia has been a huge obstacle for the last year and we finally found the legal way to do it which means we can now distribute In Lumine's books in Russia. We have been wanting to get our books into Russian Christian book stores but we have so far been unable to since we had no way of getting bulk shipments into Russia.

Here are some photos I took as Jake and I packed up and labeled books.

Stacks of "God is the Gospel"

Jake packing up "Don't Waste Your Life"

What would you do?

Oh, The Temptation from Steve V on Vimeo.

I'd eat the first marshmallow right away because two marshmallows is way to much sugar

The Resurgence

One of the blogs I ready pretty regularly is The Resurgence. It was started by Mars Hill Church in Seattle and over the last few months they have added a bunch of bloggers from the Acts29 network. This is what they say about themselves:

The Resurgence is a movement that resources multiple generations to live for Jesus so that they can effectively reach their cities with the Gospel by staying culturally accessible and Biblically faithful.

Here are a few posts I've been encouraged by reading:

- Christ vs. Self: Pinocchio Religion

- Healthy Pastors: Healthy Expectations

- Church Planters: Stop Wasting God’s Money

- Spiritual Disciplines: Service

Quite possibly the most electable candidate for change

Humility

Humility is the one grace in all our graces that, if we gaze on it, becomes something else. It flourishes when the gaze is elsewhere—on the greatness of the grace of God in Christ. - John Piper

(read the whole article)

New template

We've been wanting to change our template for a while and I finally got around to doing it. I've got a few kinks to work out still but for now it is pretty minimalistic.

By the way did everyone see this? If so you can guess what I want for Christmas. Liese popped my happy bubble by asking "did they release Help! on DVD?" The answer to which is still no.

Newsletter in pdf form

I figured people who are not on our mailing list but who read this blog may be interested in our newsletters. Since I recently discovered how to make pdf files from Illustrator documents I figured I'd do our last newsletter and post it here.

click here to download our Winter/Spring 2009 newsletter.

Second Editions

In Lumine sold out the first book it printed, John Piper's "The Passion of Christ". So we are doing a second edition which I was kind of excited about because it means getting to write second edition on the cover and design a new cover.

I wanted the cover to have a sort of gruesome feel as the book is about the reasons why Christ had to suffer and die. But I also wanted it to be clean and only hint at what the subject of the book was. So this is what I came up with. The runner up that got nixed because of the script font is below. Some people just don't like script fonts, or so I've found.

Next up is Wayne Grudem's "Christian Beliefs" which hopefully will go to the printer in the next week or so. Then we there is a series of short biographies of Edwards, Luther, Augustine etc. that we will be printing as well as finishing the translation of Randy Alcorn's "Heaven".

Good quote

Mortimer Adler, How to Read a Book (p. 140):

Teachability is often confused with subservience. A person is wrongly thought to be teachable if he is passive and pliable. On the contrary, teachability is an extremely active virtue. No one is really teachable who does not freely exercise his power of independent judgment. He can be trained, perhaps, but not taught. The most teachable reader is, therefore, the most critical. He is the reader who finally responds to a book by the greatest effort to make up his own mind on the matters the author has discussed.

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