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12 Days Before Christmas Book Giveaway: Day 5 Winners

~ Bob Hayton ~ 4 Comments

Here are the winners from Day 5’s giveaway. Don’t worry if you weren’t one of our winners, there are plenty of more prizes to win between now and Christmas Eve. Be sure to head on over to BibleGeekGoneWild.com for today’s giveaway.

The winners and the books they won are listed below. Our thanks again go out to Accordance Bible Software, Broadman & Holman Publishing, and Zondervan, who sponsored this day’s giveaway.

Winner #1 — Sam Rogers

Winner #2 — Brandon Lehr (www.my-livinghope.blogspot.com)

Winner #3 — Jim Drake

Book Briefs: “The Promise of Heaven” by Randy Alcorn

~ Bob Hayton ~ 1 Comment

As we approach Christmas, I wanted to highlight some books which would make good gift items. I realize I’m a bit late with this, & I’m late on my shopping, too! But some of you may be in possession of a gift card soon, and wondering what to spend it on… For other gift ideas, you may want to check a new category I’ve created called “ideal gift books“.

The Promise of Heaven: Reflections on Our Eternal Home by Randy Alcorn is an absolutely beautiful book. It is filled with full color, photographs of nature scenes from the West taken by professional nature photographer, John MacMurray.

As one pages through the book, they are struck by the beauty of God’s earth, and then Randy Alcorn fills their minds with thoughts of the New Earth to come. Answering a host of questions about heaven, the book is interesting, informative and delightful. Randy shares the Gospel clearly and encourages us to worship our Lord for the Earth we have, and our future “Heaven on Earth” to come.

The production of this book is top notch. While it isn’t quite a full coffee-table sized book, it deserves a spot on anyone’s coffee table. It would make a great gift for loved ones this Christmas. If someone you know likes Mountains and nature photography, they would absolutely love this fine book. I highly recommend this.

Preview this remarkable book here. And pick up a copy of this book from any of the following online retailers: Christianbook.com, Amazon, or direct from Harvest House.

Disclaimer: This book was provided by Harvest House Publishers. I was under no obligation to offer a favorable review.

About Book Briefs: With limited time available to give every book sent my way a full review, I’ll be offering short-form book reviews called Book Briefs. Book Briefs are book notes, or my impression and informed evaluation of a book, but they stop short of being a full book review.

12 Days Before Christmas Book Giveaway: Day 2 Winners

~ Bob Hayton

Before I announce the winners of the Day 2 contest, I want to be sure you all realize we are doing one giveaway each day from now until Christmas Eve. So go over to CrossFocusedReviews.com for another chance to win in today’s giveaway.

Yesterday, we had just under 100 people sign up for the Day 2 giveaway; and we had to narrow them down to just four winners! The winners were chosen randomly, using a random sequence generator. And so, without further ado, the winners are:

Winner #1 — William Kessel

Winner #2 — Guerite Harrell (www.boldlion.blogspot.com)

Winner #3 — Elizabeth Hankins (www.hankinsfamily.com)

Winner #4 — Micah Tanis

The 12 Days Before Christmas Book Giveaway: Day 2

~ Bob Hayton ~ 7 Comments

Today is day 2 of the 4th Annual 12 Days Before Christmas Book Giveaway! Today’s giveaway is sponsored by New Growth Press, Reformation Heritage Books, and P & R Publishing. We will have four winners today, who will win a combined total of 15 books. The prizes will be spelled out below. First, I want to highlight the various books available in today’s giveaway.

Kids Story Books and Devotionals from New Growth Press

The Gospel Story Bible: Discovering
Jesus in the Old and New Testaments		 Long Story Short: Ten-Minute Devotions to Draw Your Family to God
OT preview and NT preview Watch an author interview or view sample
                   Visit GospelStoryforKids.com for more information.

Historical Fiction & Children’s Biographies from Simonetta Carr

Weight of a Flame: The Passion of Olympia Morata (Chosen Daughters) [P & R Publishing]

Preview the book here.

Learn more at prpbooks.com.

Bonus: for another chance to win this book, visit the Heavenly Springs blog.
Athanasius (Christian Biographies for Young Readers) [Reformation Heritage]

Preview the book here.

Read my review of this book.

You can also view a video clip produced by the illustrator of the book.
John Owen (Christian Biographies for Young Readers) [Reformation Heritage]

Preview the book here.

You can also view a video clip produced by the illustrator of the book.
                   Visit the author’s website for more information.

Additional Parenting Resources from Reformation Heritage Books

Parenting by God’s Promises: How to Raise Children in the Covenant of Grace

Preview the book here.
Family Worship (Family Guidance Series)

Preview the book here.

You can also view a video clip produced by the illustrator of the book.
                         Visit HeritageBooks.org for more information.

Today’s Prizes

Each winner will receive a free copy of the books listed below.

1st Prize 2nd Prize 3rd Prize 4th Prize
  • Gospel Story Bible
  • Long Story Short
  • Weight of a Flame
  • Athanasius
  • Gospel Story Bible
  • Long Story Short
  • Weight of a Flame
  • John Owen
  • Gospel Story Bible
  • Long Story Short
  • Weight of a Flame
  • Family Worship
  • Gospel Story Bible
  • Long Story Short
  • Parenting by God’s Promises

Enter Today’s Contest

The contest is now closed. Click to my home page and you’ll see a link at the top to the next day’s giveaway in our 12 Days Before Christmas Giveaway.

The 12 Days Before Christmas Giveaway: Starts Today

~ Bob Hayton ~ 1 Comment

Head over to Bible Geek Gone Wild for today’s amazing giveaway. Each day from now through Dec. 24, we will have a big giveaway of books, CDs, DVDs, or software programs. Today’s giveaway includes software from Accordance, 3 of the new Christmas CDs from Keith & Kristyn Getty, a music CD from Sovereign Grace Music, and a Christmas DVD from Tyndale House.

The schedule of the giveaways is as follows:

A full list of the prizes and the 21 participating publishers is listed here.

You can enter today’s giveaway by clicking this link and filling out the Google form. Each day’s giveaway will be noted on my blog at the top of all my posts in a special announcement section. You’ll want to return to my blog each day for notice of where the giveaway will be held.

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