Here’s a number of books publishers have sent me to give away. Let me know if you’re interested in any of them. Any titles not claimed by 11:59 pm on October 31, 2009, will be released into the wild for the finding at IWU.
Here’s the available titles:
Hero: Becoming the Man She Desires
Mama’s Got a Fake I.D.: How to Reveal the Real You Behind all That Mom
Holy Roller: Finding Redemption and the Holy Ghost in a Forgotten Texas Church
Thanks to the good folks at Multnomah Books, here’s the second giveaway for Booktober Fest 09:
Holy Roller: Finding Redemption and the Holy Ghost in a Forgotten Texas Church
Book Summary:
Julie Lyons was working as a crime reporter when she followed a hunch into the South Dallas ghetto. She wasn’t hunting drug dealers, but drug addicts who had been supernaturally healed of their addictions. Was there a church in the most violent part of the city that prayed for addicts and got results?
At The Body of Christ Assembly, a rundown church on an out-of-the-way street, Lyons found the story she was looking for. The minister welcomed criminals, prostitutes, and street people–anyone who needed God. He prayed for the sick, the addicted, and the demon-possessed, and people were supernaturally healed.
Lyons’s story landed on the front page of the Dallas Times Herald. But she got much more than just a great story, she found an unlikely spiritual home. Though the parishioners at The Body of Christ Assembly are black and Pentecostal, and Lyons is white and from a traditional church background, she embraced their spirituality–that of “the Holy Ghost and fire.”
It’s all here in Holy Roller–the stories of people desperate for God’s help. And the actions of a God who doesn’t forget the people who need His power.
Want a free copy of Holy Roller
So, I know you’ve all been refreshing my blog every few minutes wondering who would win the much desired A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
K has hooked me up with several good free books in the past, including Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism?
Congrats, K!
Thanks to the good folks at Thomas Nelson, I’m kicking of Booktober Fest 09 by giving away a copy of Don Miller’s Latest book, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
Read my review here.
Why do you want a free copy of this book? Leave a comment on this blog post between now and 11:59 PM on Tuesday, October 6, 2009, letting me know why you need/want this book. Feel free to be serious or funny or creative with your answer. :)
On Wednesday, October 7, I will pick one commenter to receive a copy of A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
What story are you living?
Do you want to live a better story?
In A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
While working on a project to turn his bestselling Blue Like Jazz into a movie, Miller begins to learn the elements of story. Realizing that the elements that create a good story could also be applied to create a good life, Miller decides to live a better story. And he does. Hiking the Machu Picchu. Biking across America. A quest to find his father. Starting an organization to mentor young men. As he tells about the new narrative he is crafting for his life, readers learn to live a better story themselves.
Miller writes “A good writer doesn’t just tell a better story, though. He invites other people into the story with him, giving them a better story too.” This is what Miller does in A Million Miles
I loved this book. I cried when I read Chapter 9 “How Jason Saved His Family.” As a parent, this book was a reminder to invite my children to live in a meaningful story—the story of what God is doing in the world. I can’t wait to read it again.
Miller’s early work featured observant and witty commentary on the world; A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Here’s a sample for you to read:
