Free (nook/Kindle/ePub) When They Turn Away [Xtian Anti-Apostasy Parenting Advice]

[ATDrake]

When They Turn Away: Drawing Your Adult Child Back to Christ by Rob Rienow provides comforting evangelical parenting advice for Exactly What It Says In The Title, free courtesy of Christian publisher Kregel.

Currently free, probably just for one day @ B&N (may likely also drop in the UK, sometimes it takes a little longer for things to switch to free in the UK store), Amazon UK (slated to drop in the main store after midnight Pacific Time), Google Play (available to Canadians).

Description
When an adult child leaves the church and turns away from the faith of his or her childhood, parents are left with feelings of failure, confusion over what happened, and fear of what may happen next. Statistics show the breadth of this problem: As many as 75 percent of children who grew up in Christian homes leave the church by the time they are twenty-five (Barna Group).

Writing with compassion and honesty, author and family pastor Rob Rienow comes alongside hurting parents to share a powerful message of hope: it’s never too late to point an adult child’s heart toward God. He challenges parents to accept that they are the shortest distance between their child and Christ, and though they may not have planned for it, parents can--and should--still play a proactive role in leading their child back to faith. Rienow directs parents to four tangible steps:

• Offer your heart to the Lord
• Turn your heart to your child
• Draw your child’s heart to yours
• Point your child’s heart to Christ

Full of engaging stories, insightful action steps, and inspiring Scripture, When They Turn Away is a biblically based, practical book that teaches parents to forgive themselves, forgive their children, seek forgiveness from their children, and--ultimately--be able to affirm that there is “no greater joy than to know [your] children are walking in the truth” (3 John 4).

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by ATDrake

When They Turn Away: Drawing Your Adult Child Back to Christ by Rob Rienow provides comforting evangelical parenting advice for Exactly What It Says In The Title, free courtesy of Christian publisher Kregel.

Currently free, probably just for one day @
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Thanks for the good post.

I just checked and the ebook is still free at Amazon. It is also still free at B&N.

Call me silly (well, actually, please don't call me "silly." hahah), but when an ebook is free, I like to get one copy of the book in mobi and one copy in some other format, preferably ePub. It seems like it is good insurance from shenanigans like B&N pulled recently, and hard drive space is real cheap nowadays. It looked like ePub was not available for this ebook, so I grudgingly got it at B&N.

You probably already checked, but at Christianbook.com the ebook is available, but it is $11 (ack!).

[ATDrake]

ETA:

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

It looked like ePub was not available for this ebook, so I grudgingly got it at B&N.

Isn't the Google Play version an ePub? When I check my library, it does offer that as a download option, although I didn't actually try to download it.

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Kregel freebies have never in my experience gone free at ChristianBook, though I usually do check, just in case. They seem to stick to just Amazon and usually B&N and/or Google (sometimes they skip one or the other).

And it makes perfect sense to grab the freebies in as many different store accounts as you can. Not only is there that Pokémon-like thrill of catching them all, it's also good future-proofing insurance for when a store decides to stop offering easy downloads (Y HELO THAR, B&N, or, for that matter the time a couple of years ago when Amazon broke "the tools" for Kindle for PC/Mac and we had to wait a bit for the toolmakers to figure out what they'd changed), or shuts down entirely (I have a bunch of ex-Borders & Sony freebies which mostly did get ported over to Kobo when they transferred the accounts, but some of which didn't and I was fortunate to still have in iTunes and elsewhere which had been not been free for Canadians at Amazon, who are occasionally stingy about price-matching outside the US).

You never know.

(Plus, I have this firm belief that picking up free books from the not-so-popular stores helps encourage the publishers to keep offering the freebies to said not-so-popular stores on the grounds that at least they're attracting some attention and not to think that oh, no one gets anything at anyplace but Amazon so we'll just only offer things at Amazon from now on, and that's why I try to put in all the links I can find for the multi-store official publisher promo freebies when I post.)

[TrevorViking]

Originally Posted by ATDrake

And it makes perfect sense to grab the freebies in as many different store accounts as you can. Not only is there that Pokémon-like thrill of catching them all, it's also good future-proofing insurance for when a store decides to stop offering easy downloads (Y HELO THAR, B&N, or, for that matter the time a couple of years ago when Amazon broke "the tools" for Kindle for PC/Mac and we had to wait a bit for the toolmakers to figure out what they'd changed), or shuts down entirely (I have a bunch of ex-Borders & Sony freebies which mostly did get ported over to Kobo when they transferred the accounts, but some of which didn't and I was fortunate to still have in iTunes and elsewhere which had been not been free for Canadians at Amazon, who are occasionally stingy about price-matching outside the US).

You never know.

(Plus, I have this firm belief that picking up free books from the not-so-popular stores helps encourage the publishers to keep offering the freebies to said not-so-popular stores on the grounds that at least they're attracting some attention and not to think that oh, no one gets anything at anyplace but Amazon so we'll just only offer things at Amazon from now on, and that's why I try to put in all the links I can find for the multi-store official publisher promo freebies when I post.)

I've heard horror stories of people losing their Amazon accounts over siome silly issue, and therefore losing access to all their digital content.

Even if untrue or able to be remedied later, I use stories like that to justify getting the same free book in up to six different places.