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Shoot the Wounded is getting noticed big time! I am truly humbled by the rave reviews and is now on a recommended reading list: http://joconquerobstacles.com/
Starting May 1st and going right through until the end of the month, GoodReads members can enter to win a chance to win 1 of 10 free copies of Shoot the Wounded! Enter often and tell your friends!
I'm having so much fun!
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I had no idea when I started to blog my "Journey Thoughts" that anyone else, other than a few family and friends, would actually read my little blog. I was so busy trying to publish and market my book that my blog was all but forgotten. Once in a while I'd add a little anecdote, update, or share a snippet of my life experiences while walking with the Father. It was only when I got an email from a teacher in South Carolina who said that my blog "moved her" emotionally and spiritually that I realized God had given me a ministry opportunity here.
Then one day I "Googled" my name and I discovered that someone had nominated my "little" blog for the 2010 Canadian Weblog Awards in not one, not two but THREE categories! Imagine my surprise! Suddenly my "Journey Thoughts" had a much larger readership than just family and friends and I started to get nervous.
My Pastor informed me the other day that he has subscribed to my blog, and that he really likes it...he's even threatened to say something about my blog in a future sermon! That's a bit intimidating!
So I'm starting to take this blogging a bit more seriously now. I am very conscious of my audience now, I am also very conscious about what I write and Whom I represent when I write. Most of my "Journey Thoughts" are about my life experiences with the Father. As He directs my paths, I journey with God daily. Sometimes I stumble, sometimes I fall...I write about that. I also write about successes and joy and all the rollercoaster life experiences that God allows in my life.
My blog is now networked with The High Calling Blogs as well as Network Blogs on Facebook. So I invite you to join me on the journey - http://lynndove.wordpress.com/
Blessings,
Lynn
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Blessings!
Lynn
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Outlive Your Life: You Were Made to Make A Difference by Max Lucado

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I have a library of Max Lucado books. To say I am a “fan” would be a huge understatement, but this book, "Outlive Your Life" surpasses them all! It is timely, poignant, passionate and impacting. Unfortunately the book is also so uncomfortably stirring, that it made me squirm in my seat with each chapter until I finally fell to my knees to weep before the Lord in repentance. Be prepared!



This is a book that studies the early Christians in the book of Acts and implores Christians today to model their behavior; to be an ”Acts Church”, not just say it, but actually DO IT! One example I took to heart was in the Chapter “Open your door, open your heart”. I am a Martha-type and I don’t extend invitations unless my house is in order. There I’ve said it,… but Lucado says, “If we wait until everything is perfect, we’ll never issue an invitation. Remember this: what is common to you is a banquet to someone else.” It tweaked a nerve with me. I have fallen short in the hospitality department because I’m more concerned with the dust bunnies in the corner than sharing conversation and fellowship with someone who just wants to be invited in and listened to. Shame on me.



The book is filled with those type of “shame on me” realizations. The book brings readers to realize where they’ve fallen short as compassionate Christians, but it also encourages us that we don’t need to be super-human to make a difference. We can outlive our lives! His book is filled with stories of individuals who saw a need, acted on the need and did extraordinary things as a result. It is about people, who listen, pray, respond and act out their faith daily.



Lucado has a gift of taking a Biblical story and telling it in a contemporary way. He is humorous in places but there is always a serious undercurrent throughout the book.



The last quarter of the book is filled with questions for discussion, so this book can be used as an individual or small group Bible Study. Again, be prepared for hard-hitting questions that force you to come out of your seat of complacency and demands that you act out your faith!



If that was not enough to motivate you to read this brilliant book, 100 percent of the author’s royalties from "Outlive Your Life" products will benefit children and families through World Vision and other ministries of faith-based compassion.



If you must read one book this year, make sure it’s "Outlive Your Life"!



Lynn Dove

Shoot The Wounded



(I received this book free from Thomas Nelson Publishers as part of their BookSneeze.com book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.)





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Lynn
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Please check out the new cover of Heal the Wounded - the 2nd book in the "Wounded Trilogy" and sequel to Shoot the Wounded!

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Lynn
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Delightfully refreshing concept with a powerful message...join me as I welcome Mark Glamack and his "Littluns" on Journey Thoughts today!

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Lynn
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Journey Thoughts 10 Best Books of 2010...add your favorites!

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Lynn
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If you haven't already done so, "hop" over to my blog and then enter the contest there and then click on the "linky" to "hop" over to 160+ blogs all giving away free books and more! You have the weekend to hop from blog to blog! Have fun!
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Lynn
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Today is the day! Book Launch day of Heal the Wounded! Readers, stop in on my blog "Journey Thoughts" today for your chance to win some great prizes!
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