Monthly Archives: March 2011
New Release: The Greatest Rescue: A puzzle book about the resurrection of Jesus by Catherine Mackenzie
Last week in our Christian Focus Across the web post for March 25, we mentioned a dialog taking place on Noel Piper’s blog discussing Easter books for children. With Easter only a few weeks away, another Easter book we would … Continue reading
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New Release: Appointed to Preach: Assessing a Call to Ministry by David W. Hegg
Few enough are the books written today, that focus on the task of preparing for ministry. Even rarer are books on a biblical approach to ordination. David W. Hegg has given us just such a book with Appointed to Preach: … Continue reading
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March Book Giveaway Winners
Thank you to everybody who participated in the March Book Giveaway. The winners are: First Place: Greg Wilson (pastorgregwilson.wordpress.com) Second Place: Jacob Hanby We will have more contests as well as opportunities to participate in book review blog tours in … Continue reading
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Christian Focus Across the Web – March 25, 2011
Christian Focus Across the Web highlights important news and blog posts related to our books. This week’s highlights are below: Easter Books For Children – With the help of other bloggers, Noel Piper has been compiling a list of Easter … Continue reading
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Author Profile: Larry Dixon
This past Friday we shared a sample chapter from Larry Dixon’s book, The Other Side of the Good News and thought some of our readers might enjoy learning a bit more about this Christian Focus author. Larry Dixon is a … Continue reading
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Hear Joseph A. Pipa Jr. on Knowing the Truth with Kevin Boling
Joseph A. Pipa Jr. will be interviewed live Tuesday March 22, 2011 at 1:30 PM ET to discuss his book Galatians: God’s Proclamation of Liberty on the Knowing the Truth Radio Program with Pastor Kevin Boling. You can tune in … Continue reading
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March Book Giveaway
Now that we have a month of blogging under our belts, we decided it was time to host our very first book giveaway on the Christian Focus BookNotes blog. The contest will run from March 21st through the 26th. The … Continue reading
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Christian Focus Across the Web – March 18, 2011
Christian Focus Across the Web highlights important news and blog posts related to our books. This week’s highlight is below: Over the past few weeks, there has been much discussion in both traditional and online media about Rob Bell’s new … Continue reading
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Notable and Quotable: Michael LeFebvre
In Christian worship, God is the audience of our singing. Many congregations today see themselves as that hundred-person choir singing to God. They imagine that they stand as a mass of worshipers, singing their songs of faith to him. That … Continue reading
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Christian Focus On Location – 2011 Children Desiring God Conference
Last week Christian Focus children’s editor and author Catherine Mackenzie attended the March 2011 Children Desiring God Conference in Minneapolis, MN. The theme of this year’s conference was holding fast to the word of truth, which centered around the authority … Continue reading
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