New Living Translation Giveaway

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Tyndale is giving away copies of the Life Application Bible from November 29th through December 24th, 2011. All you have to do is visit their New Living Translation Facebook page, like them, and enter. One winner will be chosen each day and one winner per week will win an iPad 2. Here's the details:

By visiting the giveaway entry page (located on the NLT Facebook page, the link is under the profile picture) and entering your name and e-mail address you'll be entered to win the following prizes:

• One random person each day will win a Life Application Study Bible Family Pack (Guys Life Application Study Bible hc, Girls Life Application Study Bible hc, Student's Life Application Study Bible hc, Life Application Study Bible hc, Life Application Study Bible Large Print hc).
• One Random person each week will win an Apple iPad 2!

Favorite Christmas Album?

Bruce Cockburn's (pronounced koh-bern) "Christmas" is perhaps one of the best Christmas albums ever done. It's done in more of a singer/songwriter folk style, but that's Bruce Cockburn for you. He's a Canadian-born musician. The album features mostly traditional Christmas songs rearranged in Cockburn's folk flare. There's even some French thrown in for good measure, since he's French-Canadian. If you have yet to discover Cockburn, do yourself a favor, and take a listen. This is one singer-songwriter that you're missing out on.

Amazon Links:

Bruce Cockburn's "Christmas" on CD

Bruce Cockburn's "Christmas" on MP3

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Vyrso Free EBooks in December

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Vyrso (LOGOS free ebook reader) is offering discounted and free ebooks for the whole month of December. The biggest freebie right now is John Piper's Holy Ambition, but they're promising books from authors such as Randy Alcorn as well. Visit this page  each day in December to see what the day's deal is.

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Define "sexual assault"

This post might seem a little odd, but look at the following article first:

A 7-year-old boy has been accused of sexual harassment after punching a fellow first-grader in the groin, but the boy's mother says he was acting in self-defense.

Tasha Lynch told The Boston Globe that her son, Mark Curran, was being choked during the Nov. 22 incident on a school bus, and has been afraid to go back to school in South Boston ever since.

“I think my kid was right to fight back [after he was choked],’’ she said. “He wasn’t doing anything except protecting himself.’’

Later in the article:

Tynan Elementary School Principal Leslie Gant didn't believe that Mark was acting out of self-defense, Lynch told The Globe.

“She said, ‘It doesn’t matter who hit who first,’ ’’ Lynch said. “‘He said he hit him in the testicles. That’s assault. That’s sexual assault.’"

I said: ‘The kid choked my son first and that’s called attempted murder. He said he couldn’t breathe.’’’

The school sent a letter to stating her son was accused of sexual harassment and endangering physical safety of other students.

In this day and age, have we come so far as to brand self-defense as "sexual assault." Does a first-grader even know what sex is? Shouldn't the school take that into consideration before even branding the kid a sexual predator? Is no action being taken against the kid who choked the accused? Sorry, but no tolerance policies continue to get more ridiculous. Show some common sense, people. I wonder if the kid even knew where he was aiming when he punched.

Amazon Holiday Music for $5

Amazon has a bunch of Holiday albums for only $5 right now. Take your pick from "A Charlie Brown Christmas", Harry Connick, Jr., Mannheim Steamroller, Casting Crowns, Bing Crosby, and many others. Click the following image to visit the site and choose the albums you want to add to your collection.

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Two Free Audiobooks from ChristianAudio.com for December - One's a Dickens of a Carol

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Publisher's Description:

Mitsuo Fuchida was a Captain in the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service who is perhaps best known for leading the first air wave attacks on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Fuchida was responsible for the coordination of the entire aerial attack working under the overall fleet commander Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo.

After World War II ended, Fuchida became an evangelist, Christian preacher and frequently traveled to the United States to minister to the Japanese expatriate community. He became a United States citizen in 1966. His autobiography was originally released in 1953, and this edition will be published to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 2011.

Bonus! Includes interviews with Florence DeShazer and Jacob DeShazer.

Download Here

 

 

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Publisher's Description:

A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman and Hall and first released on 19 December 1843. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the supernatural visitations of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Yet to Come. The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim.

The book was written and published at a time when Britain was experiencing a nostalgic interest in its forgotten Christmas traditions, and at the time when new customs such as the Christmas tree and greeting cards were being introduced. Dickens' sources for the tale appear to be many and varied but are principally the humiliating experiences of his childhood, his sympathy for the poor, and the Christmas stories of Washington Irving.

The tale was pirated immediately, was adapted several times to the stage, and has been credited with restoring the holiday to one of merriment and festivity in Britain and America after a period of sobriety and somberness. A Christmas Carol remains popular, has never been out of print, and has been adapted to film, opera, and other media.

Download Here

GroupTune - Christian Music Deals

GroupTune is a fairly new site using GroupOn's model of offering deals, except this time, it's with Christian music. I've already gotten a free song off of Sojourn's latest Christmas album. There's another free deal going on right now, as well as a $10 deal for 2 Christmas albums from Bethlehem Skyline.

You can view the current deal at the following link: http://www.grouptune.com?did=10885&rf=466610

The Free FFH free Christmas song is at the following link: http://www.grouptune.com?did=10781&rf=466610

Click the links, setup an account to be notified of new deals, and enjoy some new music for less.