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Today marks the ten-year anniversary since my dad unexpectedly passed away. He was 1 month and 4 days shy of his 45th birthday. It’s hard to believe that, if God grants me another 15 1/2 years on this earth, I will have outlived Dad. I’d like to take a moment to share some lessons I’ve […]

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We are very excited to announce that a new addition is coming to the Start2Finish family very soon…

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As an NFL football fan, I’ve been following the news today about Ray Rice, running back for the Baltimore Ravens, who was cut from the team and then suspended indefinitely by the league for an incident of domestic violence at an Atlantic City casino earlier in the year. The NFL previously suspended Rice for two […]

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Last week, I announced a giveaway to promote the release of Bethlehem Road: A Guide to Ruth. Someone received 1 entry for purchasing on Amazon and 5 entries for purchasing from a Christian bookstore. I’m very excited to announce that Tony Clay is the winner of the eBooks4Life membership, the Kindle paperwhite, and the Bibliotheca […]

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“Sound doctrine” is a phrase we Christians throw around quite often. Believing the correct thing on a wide range of biblical issues is very important to us, as it should be for anyone. Whenever I read through Hebrews or 1 John or Ephesians or 1 Corinthians or Romans, I’m reminded that I can’t just believe […]

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Though the book began shipping about two weeks ago, today is the official launch date of Bethlehem Road: A Guide to Ruth. This book began as a Kickstarter project back in the Spring, and I’m immensely grateful to everyone who helped make this book a reality. This book was a deeply personal one to write […]

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Hi, I’m Michael Whitworth, owner, author, and janitor at Start2Finish Books. I want to tell you a little about the Books4Life Club, the best book-buying decision you’ll ever make. The doors to our club are only open for a few more days, but they’ll close at 11:59 pm on Friday, August 29th. The Books4Life Club […]

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Many of you are familiar with the metaphor Paul uses in Rom 12:2 when he encourages the Romans not to allow the world to press them into its mold. Instead, and as the body of Christ, God calls us (corporately and individually) to be transformed. We’re usually really good at spotting conformity when it comes […]

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Editor’s Note: My friend, Steven Hunter, is a voracious reader and is pursuing a very unique PhD in which he reads the great classics of literary history. Steven is also the associate minister for the Lehman Ave church in Bowling Green, Kentucky. At my request, Steven wrote an excellent guest blog post on why it’s […]

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My friend, Paul O’Rear, graciously agreed to write the Foreword to Bethlehem Road: A Guide to Ruth. I was very excited about this for a lot of reasons, one of the main ones being that Paul wrote an incredible book that was published earlier this year. It’s called “Living With a Broken Heart.” This is […]

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