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Giveaway: Olive Garden Giftcard & Dinner with a Perfect Stranger


You’re invited to eavesdrop on a life-changing conversation…

In 2005, Readers were invited to eavesdrop on a life-changing conversation for cynical business man Nick Cominsky while he dines with Jesus. Six years later the novella Dinner with a Perfect is still changing hearts and lives. Have you read it?

This summer, to celebrate the paperback releases of Dinner with a Perfect Stranger and A Day with a Perfect Stranger—now with study guides included!—we’re giving away three $50 gift cards to Olive Garden as well as copies of these newly released version.

Enter here and use the contest code DINNER. For complete contest rules, click here.

This giveaway ends July 31, 2011.

 

SPOTLIGHT: little books with BIG IMPACT

Don’t miss out on these powerful books for your spiritual growth! Click on each cover to start reading now!

The normally confident, cynical Nick soon finds himself thrown off-balance, drawn into an intriguing conversation with a baffling man who comfortably discusses everything from world religions to the existence of heaven and hell. And this man who calls himself Jesus also seems to know a disturbing amount about Nick’s personal life.

Aboard a plane, Mattie is relieved to find herself seated next to a passenger who shares her scorn for religion. After she confides her husband’s unexpected religious turn, their conversation soon leads to a fascinating exploration of spirituality, God, and the quest for meaningful connection.

Psalm 23 is more than just a lovely poem; it is a profound description of the relationship God offers you. In this refreshing, exhilarating book by Tony Evans, you will discover anew one of the most beloved passages of Scripture—and the Shepherd who is more than enough to meet all your needs.

All of us go through good, bad, and just plain ugly times. But that’s only half the story. God can take all the experiences of your life and use them to make you unbelievably better at what He’s created you for! But you say, “I am in a mess; it’s the biggest mess anyone ever made. You don’t know my mess!” There’s only one answer for that, says Tony: “You don’t know my God.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

            

 

 

 

Congratulations to our Christy Award finalists!

We couldn’t be more excited for our Christy nominated authors! Did you miss them when they first released? Find out more about them below.

Indivisible

(Contemporary Romance category)

About the Book:
Everyone in Redford, Colorado, has a secret—even Police Chief Jonah Westfall and the woman who loves him. Will the revelations drive them apart? Or make them indivisible?

Read the first two chapters

Check out the Book Reporter Q&A

Get materials for your book club

TheCharlatansBoy

(Young Adult category)

About the Book:
Lies and ugliness are his living, but the charlatan’s boy is forever on the lookout for the truth about where he comes from. Owing more to Twain than to Tolkien, The Charlatan’s Boy is a rollicking fantasy novel about a boy’s desire to belong.

Read the first two chapters

Visit the author’s blog

LadyinWaiting

(Contemporary Standalone category)

About the Book:
Two women, separated by nearly five hundred years, face feeling powerless over their fates before finally discovering they’ve always had the ability to choose.

Read the first two chapters

Read the starred Publishers Weekly review

Get materials for your book club

LastChristian

(Visionary category)

About the Book:
After her remote village is annihilated, a cryptic message vaults Abby Caldwell into the seemingly-impossible task of re-introducing the Christian faith in  late twenty-first century, secular America—and rescuing the planet from spiritual oblivion.

Read the first chapter

Watch the video trailer

Get materials for your book club

To get news about upcoming books by these authors and more, subscribe to our monthly Fiction Reads eNewsletter on the right side of this post.  

SNEAK PEEK: Day with a Perfect Stranger by David Gregory


sneak-peak_1852What if a stranger knew you better than you know yourself?

Click here to download chapter one of Day with a Perfect Stranger.

Aboard a plane, Mattie is relieved to find herself seated next to a passenger who shares her scorn for religion. After she confides her husband’s unexpected religious turn, their conversation soon leads to a fascinating exploration of spirituality, God, and the quest for meaningful connection.

Click here to download chapter one of Day with a Perfect Stranger.

SNEAK PEEK: Dinner with a Perfect Stranger by David Gregory


sneak-peak_1852You are Invited to a Dinner with Jesus of Nazareth

Click here to download chapter one of Dinner with a Perfect Stranger.

The normally confident, cynical Nick soon finds himself thrown off-balance, drawn into an intriguing conversation with a baffling man who comfortably discusses everything from world religions to the existence of heaven and hell. And this man who calls himself Jesus also seems to know a disturbing amount about Nick’s personal life.

Click here to download chapter one of Dinner with a Perfect Stranger.

NEWS: Best-Selling Author David Gregory Interviews With INSPY


Best-selling author David Gregory answers questions about his most recent novel The Last Christian. Read why he writes, challenges of incorporating faith into his writing, and more! Click here to read.

NEWS: Two WaterBrook Multnomah Titles Shortlisted in the Inaugural INSPY Awards


Two WaterBrook Multnomah titles have been Shortlisted in the INSPY Awards.  The INSPYs were created by bloggers to discover and highlight the very best in literature that grapples with expressions of the Christian faith.  Awarded for Creative Nonfiction is Hear No Evil: My Story of Innocence, Music, and the Holy Ghost by Matthew Paul Turner,  and for Speculative Fiction The Last Christian by David Gregory. To view the full list, click here.

NEWS: Celebrating the 5th Anniversary of the Perennial Best Seller, Dinner with a Perfect Stranger


You are Invited to a Dinner with Jesus of Nazareth…

The perennial best-selling novella, Dinner with a Perfect Stranger, depicts an evening Nick Cominsky will never forget.  As he cautiously accepts a dinner invitation to an Italian restuarant from Jesus,  the normally confident, cynical Nick soon finds himself thrown off-balance, drawn into an intriguing conversation with a baffling man who appears to be more than comfortable discussing everything from world religions to the existence of heaven and hell. And this man also seems to know a disturbing amount about Nick’s personal life…

Click here to read an excerpt!

DISCUSSION GUIDE: How Christianity Died in America


Download the discussion guide

The Last Christian - a novel by David Gregory – is more than a thrilling, gripping, can’t-put-it-down work of fiction. It’s also a serious call to action for all believers to consider the reason for the decline in Christianity in America in the 21st Century.

In Chapter 18 David beautifully summarizes and challenges Christians to consider the five causes for the decline and demise of Christianity through Creighton Daniels – a professor teaching the lesson in the year 2088 to one of his classes.

Read chapter 18. At the end of the reading are discussion questions that can be used in your Bible study, reading group, small group or church.

Take a few minutes and read through chapter 18 now.

Download the discussion guide

SNEAK PEEK: The Last Christian by David Gregory


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What does this nation without God look like? A startling “what-if” look at the end of Christianity in America…

Download the first chapter of The Last Christian here.

A.D. 2088. Science is removing God from America—one person at a time. Can the faith of one woman bring restoration? In this futuristic thriller, one woman takes on  the seemingly-impossible task of re-introducing the Christian faith in  late twenty-first century, secular America—and rescuing the planet from spiritual oblivion. 

Download the first chapter of The Last Christian here.