Book plugs are always one of the tough gigs to do in the student world, at CU, church, conferences, etc.
Don’t want to trivialise the book; do want to make the book sound attractive without being too geeky; don’t want it to sound like the book-plug they heard last week; do want to look like I’m not just reading out the blurb on the back.
This video, one of the highlights from the student stream at New Word Alive, takes up the challenge with hilarious results.
HT: Bish
Yep, that was intentionally ironic. Five suggestions from Michael Ramsey, former Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of Durham, on staying humble…
1. Thankfulness… ‘Thankfulness is a soil on which pride does not easily grow’.
2. Confession… be honest about your sin; criticise yourself in God’s presence.
3. Accept humiliations… however hard that may be.
4. Don’t worry about any status you have apart from how you are in God’s sight.
5. Use your sense of humour:
‘Laugh about things. Laugh at the absurdities of life. Laugh at yourself. Laugh at your own absurdities. We are, all of us, infinitisimally small and ludicrous creatures within God’s universe. You have to be serious, but never be solemn, because if you are solemn about anything there is the risk of becoming solemn about yourself.
Ramsey’s words as quoted by John Stott.
Hello, my name is Robin. Welcome to That Happy Certainty, where I write and collate on Christianity, culture, and ministry. I’m based in Barrow-in-Furness in South Cumbria, England, where I serve a church family called St Paul’s Barrow, recently merged together from two existing churches, St Paul’s Church and Grace Church Barrow.
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