Posted on 11/23/2008 11:45:43 AM PST by betty boop
Congratulations, Alamo-Girl, on the Release of Your New Book!
There Is Only One Great Commandment
Lulu Press, 2008
It is my honor and distinct pleasure to announce the publication of Alamo-Girl’s new book, There Is Only One Great Commandment, a prayerful work of Christian witness and devotion that speaks to how one centers one’s life in God. A non-denominational, non-sectarian work, it focuses on Christian living — on the growth of the Image of Christ in our souls, in our everyday lives.
In There Is Only One Great Commandment, Alamo-Girl offers to conduct you on a spiritual walk through the Scriptures, using the Lord’s Prayer as the guiding map, mining the truths embedded within that prayer. As marron writes on the cover, "Each word and phrase has been pulled out, held to the light, admired, contemplated, and then returned carefully to its place. And the way it was written is exactly the right way to read this book: This is not a book to read in a day but tasted and chewed morsel by morsel. Take your time. Let it sink in line by line. You won’t be disappointed."
All to the glory of God — in Christian faith and confident affirmation that there is only one great commandment: To love God with your whole heart, and soul, and mind — to love Him surpassingly above all else.
And thus we have yet another work published by a Freeper author! Earlier this year, likelight published his excellent A Believer’s Guide to Legal Issues (which very lately was an invaluable resource for me as I faced a case of “settle or litigate” in my own personal life). As the cover jacket says, this book “isn’t written for legal scholars or ivory-tower intellectuals, but for average Christians currently interacting in some way with the legal system (whether by choice or unavoidable circumstance). It promotes a system of Christian legal ethics that restores relationships, values integrity, and promotes peace. It confronts an out-of-control secular legal system that destroys relationships, idolizes greed, and celebrates revenge…. Readers will be enlightened, encouraged in their faith, and empowered in their ability to make sound decisions to honor that faith, even in the high-stakes, pressure-filled, secular legal arena.”
In 2006, Alamo-Girl and betty boop published their collaboration, Don’t Let Science Get You Down, Timothy, to which marron contributed two brilliant articles. The book has been described by an astrophysicist reviewer as “one of the rare attempts nowadays to restore the unity of science and religion. It presents a good picture of present-day science, focusing on the perennial great questions regarding the relations between Man and the Universe. It attempts the virtually impossible: to present a constructive dialog of diametrically opposed worldviews. It succeeds in opening a challenging avenue of conversation between materialists and open-minded religious people….”
I have learned that there are other works in progress within the Freerepublic creative community! So stay tuned….
CONGRATULATIONS, Alamo-Girl, on the publication of this marvelous work of Christian witness, testimony, and spirituality!
Thank you oh so very much, dear Lancey Howard!
Thank you for your encouragement, dear Doctor Raoul!
Thank you, dear fieldmarshaldj!
May God bless you, dear Quix, throughout the upcoming Thanksgiving week! And be assured, at my age there is nothing I can do but pace myself and ask for help now and again. LOLOL!
Thank you so much for bumping by! Sleep well, dear brother in Christ!
Praise God!
Thank you so very much for your encouragements and insights!
Thank you so very much for your encouragements, dear Captain Beyond!
Thanks thanks.
Will go out to eat . . . maybe Furrs—you remember that from Texas?
Maybe a nice hotel’s restaurant. Maybe some friends bed and breakfast though they are having Mexican only. I hanker for more traditional, usually.
Anyway—thanks for your kind blessings.
I’d like to join my prayers with Betty Boop’s & Alamo Girl’s.
Sometime’s it doesn’t make any sense to us that God allows, or maybe even causes certain things to happen. And we generally don’t even get to know whether He allowed it or actually caused it, much less why He did.
It can be very difficult to maintain faith and trust, in the absence of some kind of evidence to reinforce that trust, and in the presence of evidence that might tend to negate that trust. But when we’re overwhelmed with grief, we seldom see things as they truly are.
I don’t know what the answer is for you, but when I find my faith slipping, I draw from experiences that have strengthened my faith before.
Sometimes all it takes is a good look around at the wonders that could only have been created by God. Sometimes it takes the memory of a certain (personal & private) experience that proved to me that God is real, He is with every one of us, and He loves us. And sometimes it takes everything I have, everything others can contribute on my behalf, and time. Time to clear my head, and evaluate the body of evidence.
What made you trust in God before? Don’t tell me the answer. Tell yourself.
I’ll be praying that you find your way back to basking in the love God has for you.
Any hoot, I pray you'll have a blessed, joyful Thanksgiving no matter where you go.
Furrs is a Christian ran cafeteria where you go through the line and select your dishes at so much per dish and get your ticket then pay after you eat on the way out. Cheaper than most but still pretty good food.
You may not have had in your area but I think the headquarters is in Texas.
You have a FREEPMAIL, BTW.
It was a joy to be a part of and a labor of love, dearest sister in Christ!
Congratulations Alamo-Girl! May God Bless!
I Know two people on my Christmas list that your book is a “God send!” My youngest daughter, a baby Christian, and my Mom, ready to go to her Heavenly home! PTL!
Congratulations on your endeavor!
That's such a grin. This reviewer likely thinks he/she is being magnanimous to ascribe the "open-minded" of religious people to be mentioned as worthy of communication with not some but all materialists.
To any reader: there is utterly no conflict between Christianity and science. There is just God's limitless virtue and virtuosity -- and our human finiteness and fallibility, expressed in ontology and epistemology which are clumsy at best, each through our glasses darkly.
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Slept well, but not long enough! Here's a morning bump!
You’re most welcome AG!
And may you and yours be blessed this Thanksgiving.
May you eat until you are full......!!! ;-)
And still stay skinny!
Praise the Lord!!!!!
Anything you write, I’m bump’in.
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