{"id":367,"date":"2013-05-07T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T05:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/blog\/?p=367"},"modified":"2013-05-06T23:03:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T04:03:03","slug":"bad-title-great-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=367","title":{"rendered":"HATE THE COVER, LOVE THE BOOK!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"modal product-cover\" href=\"http:\/\/images.gnpcb.org\/products\/9781581349696.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"cover\" alt=\"Sensing Jesus\" src=\"http:\/\/static.crossway.org\/products\/medium\/9781581349696.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Okay, let me get something off my chest.\u00a0 I want lots of people to read this book.\u00a0 And I know it is written with pastors in mind, but any Christian who desires honest and hopeful growth will benefit greatly by reading it.\u00a0 But there is a slight problem&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Sensing Jesus<\/em>\u00a0by Zack Eswine is truly a terrific book, but you would not think so judging by its cover. \u00a0I am on record saying another Crossway book (<em>Why Cities Matter?<\/em>) has a terrific cover and thereby heaped my praise publicly on the graphic designer. \u00a0 I don&#8217;t know what happened with this cover, but I guess everyone has a bad day. \u00a0The cover for <em>Sensing Jesus<\/em> looks like a Shroud of Turin wannabe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Covers and titles matter because they form the initial impression people have of a book. \u00a0I would love to see many buy Eswine&#8217;s book, but the title with the cover design are confusing and frankly, a bit cheesy. \u00a0Note to Crossway: redesign and retitle.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This truly is an important book which is geared for pastors, but contains much wisdom any Christian will benefit from. \u00a0Among other things, it will help non pastors better understand the peculiar challenges of pastoral ministry.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eswine is a gifted writer who writes out of his own brokenness.\u00a0 He could have easily fallen prey to self indulgence, but Eswine keeps God front and center.\u00a0 Broken and vulnerable humanity is kept wonderfully tethered to the God of all hope.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The creative folks at Crossway need to get brainstorming a new title AND design!\u00a0 And please do it before the next print run!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The present subtitle is good, so I say keep it as it is: &#8220;Life and Ministry as a Human Being.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, let me get something off my chest.\u00a0 I want lots of people to read this book.\u00a0 And I know it is written with pastors in mind, but any Christian who desires honest and hopeful growth will benefit greatly by reading it.\u00a0 But there is a slight problem&#8230; Sensing Jesus\u00a0by Zack Eswine is truly a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-jesus","category-spiritual-life","category-suffering"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}