You can order the book from: Amazon, B&N, or Kobobooks.com
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You can order the book from: Amazon, B&N, or Kobobooks.com
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Now you can share with me the delight in reading Jen’s words. Her warmth, wit, and wisdom radiate through these pages. Jen puts a comical and spiritual spin on stories and events from everyday life. You’ll smile, sob, laugh, cry, and draw closer the One who scripts our lives.
Here’s the official blurb about Jeanette, the book, and her awesome giveaway. The contests ends at midnight May 10, 2012:
About the Book
What do drive-by diaper stores and God have in common? When is blabbing an acceptable habit? Why should you beware of moths and sligs? In her entertaining, uplifting style, award-winning author and humorist Jeanette Levellie weaves 72 amusing stories with affirming Biblical truths. These soul-nourishing examples of God’s favor and grace will help you:
Welcome a vacation from stress as you discover the sweetness of Two Scoops of Grace with Chuckles on Top.
You can buy the book here.
About the Author
A spunky pastor’s wife of thirty-plus years, Jeanette Levellie authors a bi-weekly humor/inspirational column, God is Bigger, a popular feature in the Paris Beacon News since 2001. She has published stories in Guideposts anthologies, stories in Love is a Verb Devotional with Gary Chapman, articles in Christian and secular magazines, greeting card verses, and poems for calendars. She is also a prolific speaker for both Christian and secular groups, and loves to make people laugh while sharing her love for God and life.
Jeanette is the mother of two grown children, three grandchildren, and servant to four cats. She lives in Paris (not the French one), IL. with her husband, Kevin. Her hobbies include dining out, talking baby talk to her cats, avoiding housework, reading, and watching old classic movies.
Visit Jeanette on her blog, On Wings of Mirth and Worth, at www.jeanettelevellie.com.
Jeanette’s Giveaways
You can win one of ten free downloads of my debut humor devotional, Two Scoops of Grace with Chuckles on Top for your eReader. Here are the very simple rules:
For each share of this post link on Facebook, Twitter, or your blog, you will receive one entry.
For each like on Jeanette’s Author Page or my Two Scoops Book Page on Facebook, or follow on my Twitter page or this blog, you will receive one entry. If you already like and/or follow me, mention that and I will count it.
Please send me ONE comment to tell me how many times you shared, liked, or followed, so I can give you the correct amount of entries. I reserve the right to verify all information given me, and disqualify anyone from the drawing who falsifies information. (Do not leave comments here to be entered, you MUST go to Jeanette’s blog post for the giveaway.)
Contest starts today and ends midnight, May 10, 2012. Jeanette will announce the winners in a blog post Sunday, May 13, 2012.
….and a $100 Gift Card Drawing~~~WOWZA!!!
After you have read/reviewed Two Scoops, check out my blog at www.jeanettelevellie.com for a contest to win a $100 gift card by answering ten easy questions about the book! After I receive your entry, your name will go into the hat for a $100 gift card to one of the following places (your choice): Amazon, Barnes and Noble, CBD, Hobby Lobby, Chick-fil-A, Wal-Mart, Olive Garden, Red Lobster, or Ruby Tuesday. This giveaway will run until August 10, 2012 so there is PLENTY of time for you to enter!
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For me, this book is more than just a good read. It is the culmination of a dream of a dear friend. Joanne Kraft and I met at my first writers’ conference. We shared a lunch, a prayer, and the beginning of a cherished friendship. At that conference, a master discourager tried to convince Joanne to abandon writing her book, devastating news for any writer. After buckets of tears, hugs, prayers, and a phone call home, wise words from her husband Paul [“Remember Who told you to write this book…”] brought clarity and peace to both of us.
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So I’m waiting for my car’s oil to be changed reading “Our Witchdoctors Are Too Weak,” and I have to force myself to not laugh out loud lest my fellow “waitees” think I need to be committed. I didn’t expect that from a missionary biography – one of many expectations upturned by this book.
With a healthy dose of self-deprecating humor, Davey Jank shares his 15 years of trials and tribulations among the Wilo tribe deep in the Amazon. With brief chapters, each recounting a new experience, I was led deeper and deeper into this “astonishing biography.” The pages open with Jank arriving in the jungle and lead us through his journey to learn the Wilo language and culture, and to create a written alphabet to share “God’s Talk” with a tribe for whom the concept of God and the Bible is completely foreign. Along the way, he transforms from an object of Wilo curiosity to friendship and trust, earning the right to share God’s Word with them.
The Wilo are traditionally a timid, nonaggressive people. When a tragic violent attack occurred, the tribe suspected a visitor from another village, the brother of the local medic. By medic, I mean the brothers were sons of witchdoctor. The suspect fled, and the brother and father threatened the Wilo with snake attacks and other “bad things.” Uncharacteristically, the Wilo responded, “We are not afraid.” Prodded by Davey, tribesman Yanako went on to explain, “That witchdoctor didn’t make the earth. He didn’t make the stars in the sky. … God sees everything that witchdoctor does. Only God is all-powerful…. Only God is eternal, and we want to know more about Him.” Hundreds of years of spiritual darkness and fear were being erased as people were transformed by the power of God’s Word.
This book is equally poignant and humorous, a rare delight. Easy reading, yet inspiring and impactful. I highly recommend it, and not just for lovers of missionary biographies.
I received this book free from agent Rachelle Gardner in exchange for a review. So glad I did. I would love to pass it along to you. Please leave a comment below this blogpost to be entered to win the book. You won’t be disappointed.
Mary DeMuth uses words the way an artist uses paint, the black and white words on the page creating technicolor images in your mind and soul. Experiencing a childhood littered with neglect and sexual abuse, as a teenager, Mary was transformed by the the redemptive work of Jesus Christ.
Thin Places is Mary’s memoir, a pageturner that details brokeness and pain, yet it is more about hope through Jesus’ healing and restoration. This book is required reading for anyone who has suffered abuse, but it is equally valuable to any reader.
Mary describes thin places as “snatches of time, moments really, when we sense God intersecting with our world in tangible, unmistakable ways. They are aha moments, beautiful realizations, when the Son of God bursts through the hazy fog of our monotony and shines on us afresh.” Mary shares her thin places with us, and as she does, I have memories surface of my own thin places. Her honesty is brave, and the book is a challenge to be brave myself.
Because of Mary’s passion to see others set free from their family secrets, she established a blog for readers to anonymously post their experiences. http://blog.myfamilysecrets.org/.
Her own personal blog is http://marydemuth.com/
Thin Places releases today and can be purchased at Amazon by clicking here. I was provided a copy of this book from the publisher, Zondervan, and I was glad to review it. Mary DeMuth is not only a gifted writer, but she spends a great deal of time encouraging other up-and-coming writers. I have been blessed by her, and I know you will be too.
Susan
A list of other bloggers participating in this blog tour can be found here.
A Christian Writer’s World
A Godly Wife on Purpose
A Musing Mom
AP Free Writing 101
Audience of One
Audrey Hebbert
Beams of Light Ministries
Becoming God’s Woman
Best Days of My Life
Book Reviews
Calling All Aspiring Writers of Non-Fiction
Carla’s Writing Cafe
Carly Bird’s Home
Carma’s Window,
Character Counts
Chatting at the Sky
Declaring His Marvelous Work
Elisabeth K. Corcoran
Eternity Cafe
Fiction for the Restless Reader
Following My King
Ginger O’Neill Ministries
God Uses Broken Vessels
Gracefull Girl
GriefWalk
Heading Home
heartfeltwords4kids
His Reading List
Iron Makeover
Jean’s Encouraging Words for Writers
Jeanette Goes to Russia (again)
Joyful Scribe
Julie Ferwerda
Karen Ehman
Kathy Howard
Life on the Wild Side
Messy Cars and Muddy Shoes
Mocha with Linda
Musings of Edwina
My Song
New Horizon Reviews
One Desert Rose
Opening Eyes, Opening Hearts
Peace of Mind
Quivering Daughters
Reflections
Rose McCauley, Christian Author
Sage Girls Ministries
Scraps of Life
Set Free Today
Sharing Sharon
Sheila Deeth
Sherri Woodbridge
Sky-High View
Terra Garden
The Gospel Writer
The Hahn Hunting Lodge
The Heart of Writing
The Journey of Writer Danica Favorite
The Stubborn Servant
The Wellspring
Thoughts from a Treasured Wretch
Walls Down
Word Vessel
Writer’s Wanderings
So when I was given the opportunity to review the new Max Lucado book, Fearless, I jumped at the chance.
We live in a world of turmoil and unrest. People everywhere are facing real fearsome situations: economic crisis, terrorism, health issues. “Every season seems to bring fresh reasons for fear.” Other people (like me) have unrealistic fears like pillow fights, phobias, worries for the sake of worry.
In Fearless, Max Lucado addresses all these issues with life stories and Biblical wisdom. He challenges us to trust more and fear less. And he provides the tools to accomplish this. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of fear including the fear of “not mattering”, the fear of worst-case scenarios, the fear of global calamity, the fear of death, the fear of disappointing God. Fearless challenges us to imagine our life without fear, wholly untouched by angst. “What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?”
The book is such an easy read, yet with such a compelling message. It empowers me as the bride of Christ to choose to allow my Bridegroom to carry me over that threshold, past that fear, leave it behind and enter into a place of peace, living a life free of fear.
For more information on Fearless, visit Thomas Nelson Publishing.