Abundant Gifts

Happy New Year!
One of the highlights of Christmas this year also sheds a little light on what I think we can expect from God in the coming year.
It was my son’s gift to his sister.
David loves to give gifts. I’m sure it’s his “language of love.” For Mother’s Day, he bought me a wonderful digital [...]

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I sure hope you’ll take an hour or so and listen in–George gave a lot of great nuggets such as “you get what you tolerate” and “we hire for attitude, we train for skill.” Ponder those for a while. The interview, and of course the book, is full of these golden nuggets. Get this information now, okay?

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This message has to be both seen and heard, rather than read, to be grasped.
It’s only 4 minutes long. Click, sit back and watch, and I hope it will give you new eyes to see the gifts of today. (I’m not scowling, really–just squinting in the sun. Next time I’ll be more aware of the [...]

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For nearly 2 years now, I have been writing daily devotionals for Today’s Christian Woman’s online site that are delivered via email. They are reportedly their most-opened email newsletter.
I am pleased to make those available to you as well, as “Abundant Gifts from the Word.”
Every day, until you decide to stop it, you can receive [...]

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If you were unable to attend the Virtual Book Tour on Tuesday night on Unleashing the Power of Rubber Bands: Lessons in Non-Linear Leadership, the replay is now available here.
It was great! We had people from all over the world ask questions and attend, and Nancy answered as many questions as we could cover in [...]

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One of the things I “do for a living” is work with publishers and authors to get the word out about their books through something called a “Virtual Book Tour.”
I’d like to invite you to one I’m doing in just a few days.
If you’re a leader of any stripe (parent, educator, church leader, [...]

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When I worked as an editor at Campus Life magazine (many moons ago), August was the month Christmas was on our minds. That was the month we worked on the November/December issue.
I don’t know why, all these years later, I’m thinking of this. Maybe it’s because I have two teenagers of my own.
Anyway, I got [...]

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Someone sent me an email with a very cool thing inside.
It’s a page with links to every chapter in the Bible, on one page.
Plus a handy reference guide to “Emergency Numbers.”
For example, “When you are sad, phone John 14.“
I would like for you to have your own copy.
It’s in a Word doc file. You might [...]

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On my Books ‘n’ Such Internet Radio Show recently, I interviewed author Dennis Marcellino on the big question of Life: “Why are we here?”
A recent survey on CNN Headline News found that the #1 interest of 43% of Americans is, “What is the meaning of life?” On this edition of Books ‘n’ Such, I interviewed author, [...]

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On March 18, I did a Virtual Book Tour  with Frank Viola and George Barna on their very provocative new book, “Pagan Chrisitanity? Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices.”
In less than 10 days, we received more than 650 questions from people who signed up for the Virtual Book Tour. (You can still ask a [...]

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