A New Year Giveaway!!!

       

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The One Year Uncommon Daily Life Challenge

My Dad loves football, as a result my siblings and I have grown up watching, talking and playing it. (Though I haven't done much of the 'playing' since my brothers passed 5ft. It got a little to intense for me.) With such a background I was quite familiar with names like 'John Elway', Tony Dungy and Tim Tebow.(My father's heroes.)

 So when I saw that a book by Coach Dungy was available for review from Tyndale Publishing I was intrigued. And the more I learned about 'The Uncommon Daily Life Challenge' the more I wanted to read it. I was so excited, that I requested a PDF copy and read that even before that actual book arrived at my door. It was totally worth it! The format and practical genres were great, but they were nothing in comparison to the actual words. Take this quote from Jan. 3^rd, for instance.

“We have a perfect role model.

Christ is our example on how to treat other people.

Christ is out example on the influence we can and should have on those around us.

Christ is the classic and eternal example of the role model WE are called to be.

No other role model even comes close to Him.”

After reading that I realized that all to often I have gotten caught up in finding and reading good books by good men and forgotten about the best Book and the perfect Man.

In Philippians 3:12 Paul states that he is striving for the perfection of Christ. No one will ever be perfect in this lifetime, but I realized that I should be HOURLY striving to be like Christ. Not only that, I should be looking around to see who I can challenge to do the same thing.

One of my favorite things about this book is the 'Uncommon Keys' at the bottom of each page. For example the one fore Jan 3^rd was this-

“Today and everyday, remember that you are a personal representative of Jesus Christ. Always strive for perfection of Christ- for yourself and for those around you.”

Watch this video to learn more about The Challenge-

Here is the link to the website just so that you don't forget- www.uncommonchallenge.com

I definitely rate this a 5 star! That is why I am offering a copy of it in my New Year Giveaway.
May God Bless you!

Disclaimer:I received this book for free from the Publisher for this review, every opinion expressed here in is 100% my own.

The Great God

O Foundation of all good,

Destroy in me every lofty thought,

Break pride to pieces and scatter it to the winds,

Annihilate each clinging shred of self-righteousness,

Implant in me true lowliness of spirit,

Abase me to self-loathing and self-abhorrence,

Open in me a fount of penitential tears,

Break me, then bind me up;

Thus will my heart be a prepared dwelling for my God;

Then can the Father take up abode in me,

Then can the blessing Jesus come with healing in his touch,

Then can the Holy Spirit descend in sanctifying grace;

O Holy Trinity, three Persons and one God,

inhabit me, a temple consecrated to Thy glory.

When Thou art present, evil cannot abide;

In Thy fellowship is fullness of joy,

Beneath Thy smile is peace of conscience,

By Thy side no fears disturb,

no apprehensions banish rest of mind,

With Thee my heart shall bloom with fragrance;

Make me meet, through repentance, for Thine indwelling.

Nothing exceeds Thy power,

Nothing is to great for thee to do,

Nothing too good for thee to give.

Infinite is thy might, boundless thy love,

limitless thy grace, glorious thy saving name.

Let angels sing for sinners repenting, prodigals restored,

backsliders reclaimed, Satan's captives released,

 blind eyes opened, broken hearts bound up,

the despondent cheered, the self-righteous stripped,

the formalist driven from a refuge of lies,

the ignorant enlightened,

and saints built up in their holy faith.

I ask great things of a great God.

This is an excerpt from "The Valley of Vision," an amazing collection of Puritan prayers and devotions published by: The Banner of Truth Trust P.O. Box 621, Carlisle, Pennsylvania 17013, U.S.A.

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January's FREE Audio

Knowing God 


"A lifelong pursuit of knowing God should embody the Christian's existence. According to eminent theologian J.I. Packer, however, Christians have become enchanted by modern skepticism and have joined the "gigantic conspiracy of misdirection" by failing to put first things first. Knowing God aims to redirect our attention to the simple, deep truth that to know God is to love His Word. 

What began as a number of consecutive articles angled for "honest, no-nonsense readers who were fed up with facile Christian verbiage" in 1973, Knowing God has become a contemporary classic by creating "small studies out of great subjects." Each chapter is so specific in focus (covering topics such as the trinity, election, God's wrath, and God's sovereignty), that each succeeding chapter's theology seems to rival the next, until one's mind is so expanded that one's entire view of God has changed.

Author Elizabeth Eliot wrote that amid the lofty content Packer "puts the hay where the sheep can reach it--plainly shows us ordinary folks what it means to know God." Having rescued us from the individual hunches of our ultra-tolerant theological age, Packer points the reader to the true character of God with his theological competence and compassionate heart. The lazy and faint-hearted should be warned about this timeless work--God is magnified, the sinner is humbled, and the saint encouraged."

Enjoy!

Paula the Waldensian

This is one of my favorite books. It is a true story, that was originally written in French and then later translated into many other languages including English.  If you are looking for a good read that is not all fluff but is not difficult to understand, I would encourage you to check this little book out!

(Back cover)"In dark times, the Waldenses protected the truths of the Bible from corrupt kings and evil popes who sought to banish God's Word from the earth, while lighting their world with God's love. Raised with this legacy, young Paula finds herself in an unfamiliar world following her father's untimely death. Placed in the home of her uncle where the discussion of religion forbidden, she is soon prohibited from reading her own cherished Bible. The foundations of her faith challenged, Paula must choose whether she will make the Waldensian legacy her own. For generations, Paula's story has enriched and encouraged children and adults alike to be imitators of God, standing for truth and walking in love. Paula the Waldensian is an epic of faith and character that must be read by children and adults alike."
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