Adore by Chris Tomlin Review and GIVEAWAY

ABOUT ADORE
The new Christmas album from Chris Tomlin releases October 23. Featuring classic Christmas songs with a mix of original songs, the new Christmas album also features special guest performances from Lauren Daigle, All Sons & Daughters, Kristyn Getty and more.

Audio CD (October 23, 2015)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: sixstepsrecords
ASIN: B013FFTYE4

1 He Shall Reign Forevermore (Live)

2 Adore (Live)

3 Midnight Clear (Love Song) (Live)

4 Noel (Live) [Lauren Daigle]

5 Hymn Of Joy (Live)

6 Silent Night (Live) [Kristyn Getty]

7 What Child Is This? (Live) [All Sons & Daughters]

8 It's Christmas (Medley/Live)

9 A King Like This (Live)

10 Bethlehem (Live)

11 A Christmas Alleluia (Live) [Lauren Daigle]

Christopher Dwayne Tomlin is an American contemporary Christian music artist, worship leader, and songwriter from Grand Saline, Texas, United States who has sold nearly 30 million records.

MY REVIEW
  Chris Tomlin’s Adore Christmas Songs of Worship is just an amazing CD. I really enjoyed each and every song. The lyrics and music were crystal clear, full of sweet emotion and praise to our Lord.
   This Christmas music is the kind I really love. It isn’t the holly, jolly stuff, just music that praises and is a comfort to listen too.
  The singers with Chris Tomlin, Lauren Daigle, Kristyn Getty and All Songs and Daughters are just amazing. You will listen to this over and over. I just received this CD and have listened to it many times already.
Your Christmas won’t be complete without this CD of precious Christmas songs, old and new.
 Highly recommended.


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Vendetta by Lisa Harris A Review

ABOUT VENDETTA
No one needs to push Nikki Boyd to excel on the Tennessee Missing Persons Task Force. The case of her own missing sister, still unsolved after ten years, is the driving force in her work. When a Polaroid photo of a missing girl shows up at a crime scene, Nikki quickly recognizes similarities to the past. The closer she gets to the abductor, the more she feels this case has become personal, and she is not the hunter . . . but the hunted.

With this explosive first book in The Nikki Boyd Files, award-winning author Lisa Harris takes you on a fast-paced pursuit of justice that will have you holding your breath until the heart-stopping finish.

File Size: 4250 KB
Print Length: 306 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0800724178
Publisher: Revell (September 29, 2015)
Publication Date: September 29, 2015
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B00XNJGQ0S

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
LISA HARRIS is a Christy Award finalist for Blood Ransom, Christy Award winner for Dangerous Passage, and the winner of the Best Inspirational Suspense Novel for 2011 from Romantic Times. She has over thirty novels and novella collections in print. She and her family have spent over ten years living as missionaries in Africa where she homeschools, leads a women's group, and runs a non-profit organization that works alongside their church-planting ministry. The ECHO Project works in southern Africa promoting Education, Compassion, Health, and Opportunity and is a way for her to "speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves...the poor and helpless, and see that they get justice." (Proverbs 31:8)

When she's not working she loves hanging out with her family, cooking different ethnic dishes, photography, and heading into the African bush on safari. For more information about her books and life in Africa visit her website at www.lisaharriswrites.com or her blog at http://myblogintheheartofafrica.blogspot.com. For more information about The ECHO Project, please visit www.theECHOproject.org.

MY REVIEW
  Vendetta by Lisa Harris is the first book in the Nikki Boyd Files series and I have already fallen in love with the characters. I really am looking forward to book two. Nikki is a Special Agent on the Tennessee Missing Person Task Force. After her sister was abducted 10 years ago that is all she wanted to do. Nikki kept looking for her sister all of those years as she helped find other abducted girls. She has such a strong character, very likable and sweet.
  Nikki’s best friend died and Nikki is still good friends with her friends husband. They worked together on this case and helped each other greatly. They are always there for each other.
  The drama and action kept me on the edge of my seat. Very riveting and exciting. Vendetta has many twists and turns and you won’t be expected the ending. It was a complete surprise and that’s what I love in mystery books I read.
  Also Vendetta has a small amount of a possible romance. I think when the romance is the main topic of the book it really takes away from the suspense and action.
  Vendetta is highly recommended and I really enjoyed it.

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God's Good News Bible Storybook by Billy Graham A Review

ABOUT GOD'S GOOD NEWS BIBLE STORYBOOK

'Christianity is Good News. . . . When we open up the Bible it is Good News from cover to cover. It's the Good News that God loves us.' - Billy Graham. No one has brought the Good News to more people than the Reverend Billy Graham, and the people who admire him span all generations. This Bible storybook will be a timeless classic for parents and grandparents to give a new generation of children the Good News; to show them the way to the cross; and to help them begin a lifetime of following Christ. God's Good News Bible Storybook is a collection of over 60 favorite Bible stories - including Noah, Joseph, Moses, David, Jesus, and the disciples - and each is equipped with a takeaway devotion from Rev. Graham. The takeaways will help children focus on God's Word, apply it to their lives, and begin walking with God and sharing the Good News from an early age. The striking artwork from Scott Wakefield will help children connect with the timeless Bible stories and messages from Rev. Graham.

Age Range: 4 - 11 years
Hardcover: 176 pages
Publisher: Thomas Nelson (September 8, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0718006305
ISBN-13: 978-0718006303
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 1 x 10 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The Reverend Billy Graham is a famous and influential American Evangelical Christian minister and media personality, the Reverend Billy Graham played a significant part of the growth of evangelical Christianity in the United States and in the world in the mid- and late-Twentieth Century. His "Crusades," huge gatherings of believing Christians, drew thousands of the faithful to hear his message, as millions more audience members participated through the medium of the television. He is considered one of the best known Protestant Fundamentalist preachers in America, with a significant following, and the unofficial title of Minister to America's Presidents. He has served as a spiritual advisor to every U.S. President since Dwight Eisenhower.



MY REVIEW
  This book Devotions from Billy Graham God’s Good News is a wonderful, precious retelling of the main parts in the Bible. Any child will be held captive as they hear the stories read to them or read them, themselves. The pictures are amazing. This book is illustrated by Scott Wakefield. You could just go through the book and look at the pictures and know what the story is about.
  At the end of most of the stories is a little note from Billy Graham asking questions and giving you things to think about.
  This is a wonderful keepsake for you and your children. They say the ages are 4-11, but I believe younger and defiantly older children will love it as well.
   A must for your children. A Bible storybook not to be missed. Highly recommended.


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Coming Clean by Seth Haines A Review

ABOUT COMING CLEAN
“I suppose we’re all drunk on something.”


Seth Haines was in the hospital with his wife, planning funeral songs for their not-yet two-year-old, when he made a very conscious decision: this was the last day he ever wanted to feel. So he asked his sister to smuggle in some gin, and his addiction began.


But whether or not you’ve ever had a drop to drink in your life, we’re all looking for ways to stop the pain. Like Seth, we’re all seeking balms for the anxiety of what we believe is an absent God—whether it’s through people-pleasing, shopping, the internet, food, career highs, or even good works and elite theology. We attempt to anesthetize our anxiety through addiction—any old addiction. But it often leaves us feeling even more empty than before.


In Coming Clean, Seth Haines writes rawly through the first 90 days of a work of sobriety, illuminating how to face the pain we’d rather run from, and even more importantly, how Jesus meets us there. Because it is only when we face our anxieties with the tenacity and tenderness of Christ’s passion that we truly discover that we are indeed clean, surrendered, and whole.

File Size: 499 KB
Print Length: 215 pages
Simultaneous Device Usage: Up to 5 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
Publisher: Zondervan (October 27, 2015)
Publication Date: October 27, 2015
Sold by: HarperCollins Publishing
Language: English
ASIN: B00UF72CD6

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
I am a working stiff who is lucky enough to call the Ozark Mountains home. I am blessed to be the husband of Amber Haines and the father of four boys. I enjoy good sentences, good music, good food, and good fly fishing.
Here, http://sethhaines.com I pen my notions regarding faith, creativity, marriage, culture, and whatever else strikes me as word-worthy. I hope you’ll follow along.
Question or comment? You can connect with me on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ .


MY REVIEW
  Coming Clean is a true journaling of a man who was addicted to alcohol. The book is his first 90 days of sobriety. His drinking started when their young son isn’t thriving and Seth believes he will die. He can’t face up to the pain so he hides behind the drink. The first part of his sobriety is quiet sad and he has a very hard time, but with God and facing his past he finds the help he needs.
  This book isn’t full of happiness and joy, but a journey that will keep you reading to find out whaat answers Seth finally comes to.
  Seth tells us that there are many ways to hide and not face the truth. Some ways may be an addiction to food, cutting or to your body. Each addiction needs for us to draw closer to God and put Him first.
  Coming Clean is a very good book full of truth and insights. You are never totally alone. God is always there. Another book to recommend.

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A Time to Speak by Nadine Brandes A Review

A TIME TO SPEAK
What happens when you live longer than you wanted to?

Parvin Blackwater wanted to die, but now she’s being called to be a leader. The only problem is, no one wants to follow.

The Council uses Jude’s Clock-matching invention to force “new-and-improved” Clocks on the public. Those who can’t afford one are packed into boxcars like cattle and used for the Council’s purposes.

Parvin and Hawke find themselves on a cargo ship of Radicals headed out to sea. What will the Council do to them? And why are people suddenly dying before their Clocks have zeroed-out?

Book Two in the “Out of Time” series.

File Size: 824 KB
Print Length: 400 pages
Publisher: Enclave Publishing (October 16, 2015)
Publication Date: October 16, 2015
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B013Z40BIS

ABOUT NADINE BRANDES
Carol Award winner and Christy Award finalist, Nadine Brandes is an adventurer, fusing authentic faith with bold imagination. She never received her Hogwarts letter, but rest assured she's no Muggle (and would have been in Ravenclaw House, thank you very much.)

This Harry Potter super-nerd has been known to eat an entire package of Oreos (family size) by herself, and watches Fiddler on the Roof at least once a year. She writes about brave living, finding purpose, and other worlds soaked in imagination. Her dystopian trilogy (The Out of Time Series) challenged her to pursue shalom, which is now her favorite word (followed closely by bumbershoot.)

When Nadine's not taste-testing a new chai or editing fantasy novels, she and her knight-in-shining armor (nickname: "hubby") are out pursuing adventures.

MY REVIEW
  A Time to Speak by Nadine Brandes is such a wonderful, wonderful book. This is book two in the Out of Time series and I must say I can’t get enough of this amazing series. This is the second book Nadine has written and book one A Time to Die won the Carol Award and was a Christy Award finalist.
  You need to read book one before you read book two A Time to Speak, because if you don’t you will miss a lot of back story.
I couldn’t read this book fast enough, but didn’t want it to end.
  Parvin and Hawke are both sent back across the wall with a lot of boxcars full of her people for not having clocks, which all of the people had to have. Parvin was O.K. with this because she was thrown across the wall in book one, but now they have passed the place where she was before and taking them to a very, very cold place. How can they survive? How will they all come together and try to work things out.
 Marvelous book and one that will find a place on my book shelf. This series is a keeper. Highly recommended.

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The Boy Born Dead by David Ring with John Driver and David Wideman A Review

 In 1953, in Jonesboro, Arkansas, a baby boy was born--dead. The attending physician set his little body aside and tended to his mother for eighteen minutes. Now, more than sixty years later, that boy leads an internationally known ministry that encourages hundreds of thousands every year. The Boy Born Dead tells his incredible story from the perspective of his best friend, David Wideman.

As a teenager in the small town of Liberty, Missouri, in the late 1960s, David Ring grew up with the challenges that come with cerebral palsy, a result of his eighteen minutes of newborn silence. Along with his physical limitations, Ring was orphaned and shuffled from home to home, finally landing in an abusive situation that made him feel unworthy of love and, eventually, unworthy of life. But God had a purpose for Ring's life, and sent an agent to help him achieve it. Through the friendship of David Wideman, a boy he met in the halls of Liberty High School, Ring found strength he didn't know he had and went on to face his demons, marry the love of his life, and start an international speaking ministry.

Full of hope, this moving story illustrates how friendship and love triumph over adversity. Anyone who faces tough times will treasure this story of hope and courage.

Watch a video of David Ring on the site I am Second. 

Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Baker Books (October 6, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0801017300
ISBN-13: 978-0801017308
Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.4 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces

John Driver is a husband to Laura, a daddy to Sadie, and a fifteen-year pastor and teacher to students and adults alike. He has authored, coauthored, or served as the primary collaborative writer for more than a dozen books, writing with authors like comedian Tim Hawkins (Diary of a Jackwagon, Fall 2015, Thomas Nelson,) Reggie Dabbs (REGGIE: You Can't Change Your Past But You Can Change Your Future, 2011, Thomas Nelson,) David Ring (The Boy Born Dead, Fall 2015, Baker Books) and others.

His latest book Just Keep Breathing, written alongside Reggie Dabbs in both authors' voices, will release Spring 2016 with Thomas Nelson. He has also written multiple articles for Relevant Magazine. Booklist calls his writing style "entertaining" with "special flair and a modern voice woven into the narrative... presenting a unique brand of hope." He is also a published songwriter.

John earned a B.A. in History and a M.S. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he was a distinguished Whittle Scholar. He worked as a secondary educator for several years, teaching history and math to public school students before transitioning into full-time ministry.

He is the creator of Ignition 7 (http://ignition7.com), a unique initiative of resources crafted to equip people to survive in their faith. Ignition 7 videos, DVDs, and Apple/Android apps have been used by tens of thousands of individuals and ministries in over twenty countries. Content has been featured on the YouVersion Bible App, JUCE TV, NRB Television Network, and Interlinc's YLO packet.

John currently serves as Teaching Pastor at his church in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee near Nashville. He serves daily in numerous writing, discipleship, and speaking endeavors. He is represented by the Wolgemuth & Associates literary agency.

MY REVIEW
  The Boy Born Dead is a truly amazing book. It is a story of friendship, courage, and triumph. This is the true story of David Ring told by David himself with the help of John Driver and his best friend David Wideman. I love stories where people have disabilities or tragedies and come through and are strong for the Lord. This is an amazing story of David whom was born dead and didn’t breath until 18 minutes later. As a result David has cerebral palsy. David when through so much and felt he couldn’t take anymore and tried to kill himself.
  This book talks about the real difficulties and hardships of a young man that others teased, took advantage of and abused. Where do you go when there is no hope, no peace, no life? The place David went, to God.
  This is such a remarkable book that is so full of truth, tragedy, hardship, peace, love and joy. Life for a teenager is hard enough, but when they have a disability it’s ten times harder.
  I just love the courage and hope of this dear person. How with God’s help he overcame and is now a strong speaker for the Lord.
Amazing book. Read it and you will be inspired to do more for the Lord. I highly recommend this precious book.

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Faith of our Fathers DVD review and GIVEAWAY

ABOUT FAITH OF OUR FATHERS
John Paul and Wayne are two young men in search of their fathers. Problem is….their fathers have been dead for 25 years. Eddie and Steven are two young men in search of their sons….whom they’ve never met.

  In 1969, Eddie and Steven are with their squad deep in the jungle of Vietnam on a five-day mission to retrieve fallen comrades. They write letters to their wives, often mentioning their love for their sons, one, who is an infant and one yet to be born.

  In 1994 John Paul and Wayne go of a five day road trip to the Vietnam Wall in Washington DC to see their fathers’ names. Along the way, reading those letters, they begin to get an understanding of who their fathers were and how they died.

  Trials and mishaps, both funny and sad, complicate the road trip for the boys. The horrors of war and the testing of faith manifest themselves for the young men in Vietnam. Ultimately, in parallel stories-25 years apart-the fathers and sons are bound together forever.

Actors: Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Downes, David A.R. White
Format: Multiple Formats, Color, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Number of discs: 1
Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Pure Flix Ent
DVD Release Date: October 13, 2015
Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
ASIN: B0107GC96Y



MY REVIEW
  Faith of our Fathers is a very serious DVD, but with moments of great humor and fun. It tells the story of two different groups of young men. Two are the fathers and then it tells the story of their sons 25 years later. The DVD goes back and forth between the two and it is so very good.
  The two fathers in Vietnam is a truly touching, heart-rending story that I just loved. It really shows the things that go on in war and how faith is a big part of it.
  The two sons also is touching, but with so much humor thrown in that you will laugh at parts and cry at other parts.
  Very good DVD. You won’t want to miss this one. This story Faith of our Fathers is made by the same studio that brought you God’s Not Dead. Highly recommend Faith of our Fathers.

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