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Literary Maps of USA and Britain

Posted in Art/Images/Photos, Books on May 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

USA Literary Map by Geoff Sawers and Bridget Hannigan Map of Literary Britain and Northern Ireland by Geoff Sawers This one is fantastic: Designer Geoff Sawers created a hand-lettered, literary map of the United States and Britain by featuring authors according to their approximate locations. Via Neatorama.

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Get Mark Oestreicher’s latest book for free!

Posted in Books, Children's and Youth Work on May 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Simply Youth Ministry is offering Mark Oestreichers new book, A Beautiful Mess, free as a download for the next 2 weeks!  They say: When you think about the state of youth ministry today, are you an optimist or a pessimist? Do you cheer or fear? Is the glass half full or half empty? In this [...]

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Top 10 Most Read Books in the World

Posted in Books on May 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The social media website Squidoo has produced an info-graph about the most read books in the past fifty years:

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Free AudioBook of the Month

Posted in Books, Church on May 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

ChristianAudio is offering Ken Sande’s Resolving Everyday Conflict free this month.

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Free ebook – Living with Questions

Posted in Books, Children's and Youth Work on April 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The Youth Specialties book Living with Questions is a free ebook right now. You can get it on Amazon or iBooks. Publisher Description: A practical and personal approach to apologetics for students. How many times has your teacher asked you a question, and you stare blankly at the ceiling, hoping to discover the answer lingering there? [...]

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Bible readers prefer one translation but consult many, survey finds

Posted in Books, Church on April 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Among regular Bible readers, more than a third indicate they read it nearly every day and typically use one primary version of the Bible. LifeWay Research polled 2,000 Americans for a study on how American adults read the Bible. The study was conducted through a demographically representative online panel. All qualifying participants indicated they read [...]

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Books I have read: Your Church is Too Safe

Posted in Books, Church, Theology on April 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I am privileged to have been part of the Your Church Is Too Safe blog tour from Zondervan.  This is the latest book from Mark Buchanan who has written a number of books, and pastors a church in western Canada, he has a real passion for the local church. Mark begins the introduction acknowledging his boredom with the [...]

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Free eBooks from Francis Chan thanks to David C Cook Publishing

Posted in Books, Church, Theology on April 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

To celebrate Good Friday, David C Cook Publishing is offering 3 free eBooks by Francis Chan. They are all best sellers: Erasing Hell, Forgotten God, and Crazy Love.  This offer works in the UK as well as the USA. But even better, this is just the beginning. Every week, David C Cook Publishing will be giving away another free [...]

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Books I have read: Jesus, My Father, The CIA, and Me

Posted in Books, Children's and Youth Work, Church on March 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

It was with some interest that I read Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and Me: A Memoir of Sorts, as titles go this was very intriguing.  In this book Ian Cron writes about his experience of growing up with an alcoholic father who worked for the CIA, and how that affected his spiritual journey. Ian’s [...]

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Books I have read: How to Read the Bible through the Jesus Lens

Posted in Books, Theology on March 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

As part of the blog tour for How to Read the Bible through the Jesus Lens I agreed to review some of the chapters on the Minor Prophets.  Dr. Michael Williams, professor of Old Testament at Calvin Theological Seminary. This book is aimed at the general Christian rather than a scholarly view, each book of the bible [...]

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