FREE/BARGAIN - Christian Interest - 2015

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Making for a nice 81% markdown!

Paul Meets Muhammad: A Christian-Muslim Debate on the Resurrection. By Michael R. Licona. Rated 4 stars, from 43 reviews at the present time, at Amazon; rated 4.04 (very high for there), from 47 ratings, at GoodReads. Print list price $16.00; digital list price $16.00; Kindle price $2.99. Baker Books, publisher. 176 pages. http://www.amazon.com/Paul-Meets-Muh...meets+muhammad.

Book Description
The resurrection of Jesus: fact or fiction?

Imagine a crowded arena full of Christians, Muslims, and curious onlookers packed in to hear the outcome of one of the greatest debates in all of history. If Jesus didn't rise from the dead, Christianity is false. But if Jesus was resurrected, Christianity is true and Islam is false. The stakes are high.

Paul Meets Muhammad imagines a futuristic face-off between two religious heavyweights, each speaking on the validity of their doctrines, forming arguments and rebuttals while citing evidence from the Qur'an and the Gospel accounts. Intriguing and entertaining, this page-turner uniquely offers a comprehensive defense of Jesus's resurrection and of Christianity itself.

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I did a quick skim over some of the preview of this ebook, and it looks solid. There aren't really enough reviews or ratings at either Amazon or GoodReads for a valid result on this very recently published ebook, but the ones that I have found are good to very good. And author Rogers' other books at Amazon are all rated very highly. It looks like a good ebook. And with it being free right now that means that I'm grabbing it.

My posting of this book does not necessarily mean that I endorse any doctrinal position taken in it.

Seven Arrows: Aiming Bible Readers in the Right Direction. By Matt Rogers; Donny Mathis. Rated 5 stars, but from only 8 reviews at Amazon; rated 4.00 at GoodReads, but from only 3 reviews there. Print list price $12.99; digital list price $8.99; Kindle price $0.00. Equip to Grow Press, publisher. 215 pages. http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Arrows-A...ight+Direction.

Book Description
Polished sermons and prepared Bible studies can inadvertently cause the average Christian to feel inadequate and ill-equipped to study the Scriptures themselves. The result is an ever-increasing level of Biblical illiteracy in most churches and an over-dependence on preachers and sermons.

Seven Arrows is written to aid all of God's people in the task of reading, understanding, and applying God's Word. Using seven simple arrows Rogers and Mathis provide a clear, orderly, and memorable guide for studying any passage of Scripture.

New Christians, maturing believers, disciple-makers, and pastors will find in this book a practical tool to produce Biblically saturated lives and churches.

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The Storytelling God: Seeing the Glory of Jesus in His Parables. By Jared C. Wilson. Rated 4 1/2 stars, from 32 reviews at the present moment. Print list price $14.99; digital list price $11.99; Kindle price $2.99. Crossway Books, publisher. 192 pages. http://www.amazon.com/Storytelling-G...n+His+Parables. Save 60 cents by buying the ePub at Christianbook, making the price $2.39. The ebook may be marked down at other retailers, I did not check any other retailers.

Book Description
Throw away your Flannelgraphs...

The prodigal son. The good Samaritan. The treasure hidden in a field. Most of us have heard Jesus’s parables before. Yet if these stories strike us as merely sweet, heartwarming, or sentimental, we can be sure we’ve misread them. In The Storytelling God, pastor Jared Wilson helps us to see how Jesus’s parables reveal profound spiritual truths about God, humanity, the world, and the future.

Discarding the notion that Christ’s parables are nothing more than moralistic fables, this book highlights how each one is designed to drive us to Jesus in awe, need, faith, and worship.

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The God Girl Bible by Hayley DiMarco and God Guy Bible by Michael DiMarco are both free in the God's Word translation right now. The added content looks like short devotional articles about "girl" and "guy" characters and topics. Even if that's not your thing, I don't recall ever seeing a God's Word Bible available for free, so this would be an opportunity to add this translation to your library.

God Girl Bible B&N eBooks.com Amazon

God Guy Bible B&N eBooks.com Amazon

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Books proliferate on the subject that this book tackles. I usually ignore them, unless they're free or insanely cheap. For some reason, I took a closer look at this one. It's rated 5 stars, over 61 reviews. Do you realize how hard it is for any book to keep a 5-star average with all of the malcontents, grousers, and ignoramuses out there to lower it? It's hard. And books like that are rare. This book stands apart from the rest of the books dealing with the same subject, if the rating is any indicator.

An 87% markdown (at Amazon; more at Christianbook) makes it even better. Life is good.

When Life Hurts: Finding Hope and Healing from the Pain You Carry. By Jimmy Evans, Frank Martin. Rated 5 stars, from 61 reviews at the present moment. Print list price $14.99; digital list price $14.99; Kindle price now $1.99. Baker Books, publisher. 241 pages. http://www.amazon.com/When-Life-Hurt...fe+hurts+evans. Catch it at Christianbook.com for $1.59 (ePub, DRM Protected); it may be marked down elsewhere.

Book Description (From the Inside Flap)
When you're free from the pain of your past, you can live fully in the present--and look with hope toward the future.

We all experience emotional pain, but few of us know how to deal with it properly. Our unresolved pain accumulates deep within the recesses of our hearts, in a place Jimmy Evans calls the "hurt pocket." The more we accumulate, the more we are mentally, emotionally, and relationally crippled. But what if we could reach into that hurt pocket, confront our pain, and experience release and freedom?

In this life-changing book, Jimmy Evans shows you how to completely remove and resolve every negative event from your past that is compromising your present and keeping you from your God-given destiny. With inspired vulnerability and searing honesty, he helps you forgive others and yourself--and discover true inner peace. Jimmy Evans is the cofounder of MarriageToday, an award-winning television program that airs nationally to more than one hundred million households daily on Daystar and reaches more than two hundred countries worldwide. In 1994 he and his wife, Karen, founded MarriageToday Ministries as a way to bring help and healing to hurting couples. They are the authors of the bestselling Marriage on the Rock, and Jimmy is also the author of several other books, including Lifelong Love Affair. He and Karen are popular speakers whose conferences on marriage and family issues regularly draw huge crowds. Find out more at www [dot] MarriageToday [dot] com.

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The Busy Mom's Bible KJV edition is $3.99 for Mother's Day.
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I'll say up front that the devotional content is mediocre and stuck at the end of the ebook as a kind of afterthought. This edition excites me, though, because Zondervan KJV texts include the original translators' footnotes and I haven't noticed one on sale before. Most other KJV editions lack footnotes entirely unless they're "study Bibles", but I'm not aware of even study editions with the original notes.

For comparison, here's a scan of the 1611 edition with footnotes in the margins and a Google scan of an 1866 printing of the KJV with modern spelling and typesetting.

Now if someone would publish an ASV or RV ebook with original footnotes...

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Originally Posted by Difflugia

The Busy Mom's Bible KJV edition is $3.99 for Mother's Day.
B&N Christianbook Amazon

I'll say up front that the devotional content is mediocre and stuck at the end of the ebook as a kind of afterthought. This edition excites me, though, because Zondervan KJV texts include the original translators' footnotes and I haven't noticed one on sale before. Most other KJV editions lack footnotes entirely unless they're "study Bibles", but I'm not aware of even study editions with the original notes.
. . . .
Now if someone would publish an ASV or RV ebook with original footnotes...

Very good job noticing the fact about the translators' notes being in the Busy Mom's Bible study Bible.

It appears to me that the copy of the ASV (American Standard Version) published in 1901 by Thomas Nelson, located at https://archive.org/details/holybible00newy, is using the translators' notes on the readings of manuscripts, and using their cross references and even their topical headings. They do not appear to be Thomas Nelson's proprietary notes. If you go to the webpage for this book (Bible), read pages viii-ix of the general Preface and page v of the Preface to the New Testament. Then, go to a random passage in the New Testament part and see if the notes correspond to what the Prefaces say about the translators' references. It seems very likely to me that they do.

As far as this being "published" is concerned, this edition is certainly out-of-print in the dead tree form. Possibly (I haven't checked to see) you could find it on the used book market. Bookfinder is a great place to do a used book search.

I haven't done any searching about the RV (Revised Version) yet. With it being published in the 1950's though, the RV is not in the public domain. So, I won't be able to find it online to be able to check to see if some edition of the RV by a publisher did have the translators' notes. Same problem with finding online another book which maybe didn't print the biblical text of the RV, but did print the translators' notes.

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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Very good job noticing the fact about the translators' notes being in the Busy Mom's Bible study Bible.

It appears to me that the copy of the ASV (American Standard Version) published in 1901 by Thomas Nelson, located at https://archive.org/details/holybible00newy, is using the translators' notes on the readings of manuscripts, and using their cross references and even their topical headings. They do not appear to be Thomas Nelson's proprietary notes. If you go to the webpage for this book (Bible), read pages viii-ix of the general Preface and page v of the Preface to the New Testament. Then, go to a random passage in the New Testament part and see if the notes correspond to what the Prefaces say about the translators' references. It seems very likely to me that they do.

As far as this being "published" is concerned, this edition is certainly out-of-print in the dead tree form. Possibly (I haven't checked to see) you could find it on the used book market. Bookfinder is a great place to do a used book search.

I have a Google scan, but I'd like an epub (or something I can turn into an epub). I found a SWORD module with the notes, but they're not formatted correctly. I keep imagining that "someday" I'll try to fix it, but I'd rather somebody just sell me one.

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I haven't done any searching about the RV (Revised Version) yet. With it being published in the 1950's though, the RV is not in the public domain. So, I won't be able to find it online to be able to check to see if some edition of the RV by a publisher did have the translators' notes. Same problem with finding online another book which maybe didn't print the biblical text of the RV, but did print the translators' notes.

I meant this RV, although I've only found one ebook RSV and that one's a poorly-formatted Calibre conversion.

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Originally Posted by Difflugia

I meant this RV, although I've only found one ebook RSV and that one's a poorly-formatted Calibre conversion.

Oh, yes, of course. I wasn't paying attention and just assumed RSV. RV is not an accepted abbreviation for the RSV.

Another abbreviation for what you call the RV is the AV (Authorized Version), if I'm not mistaken (again. ha).

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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Oh, yes, of course. I wasn't paying attention and just assumed RSV. RV is not an accepted abbreviation for the RSV.

Another abbreviation for what you call the RV is the AV (Authorized Version), if I'm not mistaken (again. ha).

The Authorized Version is the King James Version (because it was "authorized" by King James, though two prior English versions were also "authorized" by English kings). Officially, the Revised Version was "the Authorized Version with revisions" and wasn't considered a new translation, but rather just an update to more modern English and changes where the AV was obviously incorrectly translated. The RV was published with a set of notes corresponding to American English that were intended to be published as an American version. The American committee took the notes and kept going, made more changes than originally intended (while completely ignoring the Apocrypha) and published the result as the American Standard Version.

Clear as mud?

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Originally Posted by Difflugia

The Busy Mom's Bible KJV edition is $3.99 for Mother's Day.
B&N Christianbook Amazon

I'll say up front that the devotional content is mediocre and stuck at the end of the ebook as a kind of afterthought. This edition excites me, though, because Zondervan KJV texts include the original translators' footnotes and I haven't noticed one on sale before. Most other KJV editions lack footnotes entirely unless they're "study Bibles", but I'm not aware of even study editions with the original notes.

For comparison, here's a scan of the 1611 edition with footnotes in the margins and a Google scan of an 1866 printing of the KJV with modern spelling and typesetting.

Now if someone would publish an ASV or RV ebook with original footnotes...

This KJV with Apocrypha from Osnova has the original preface and translators' notes. Despite the disclaimer about not working on Kindle apps, it does work on my iPhone. This KJV is $4.99 from Amazon US.

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Originally Posted by LovesMacs

This KJV with Apocrypha from Osnova has the original preface and translators' notes. Despite the disclaimer about not working on Kindle apps, it does work on my iPhone. This KJV is $4.99 from Amazon US.

Thanks. I'd stopped looking at Bibles that weren't from one of the major publishers because most of them just dump the text into a word processor, but I checked epub samples of the OSNOVA KJV and ASV and they're not bad. The ASV doesn't have notes, but they both have better formatting than I was expecting.

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Originally Posted by Difflugia

The Authorized Version is the King James Version (because it was "authorized" by King James, though two prior English versions were also "authorized" by English kings). Officially, the Revised Version was "the Authorized Version with revisions" and wasn't considered a new translation, but rather just an update to more modern English and changes where the AV was obviously incorrectly translated. The RV was published with a set of notes corresponding to American English that were intended to be published as an American version. The American committee took the notes and kept going, made more changes than originally intended (while completely ignoring the Apocrypha) and published the result as the American Standard Version.

Clear as mud?

Well, it was clear, until you explained it just now. hahah Just kidding! The RV is not the AV, because the RV is a revision of the AV. Got it. Should have gotten it earlier. Duh.

There is some other great information in your post that I didn't know, even though I've read a book or two on the subject.

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Originally Posted by LovesMacs

This KJV with Apocrypha from Osnova has the original preface and translators' notes. Despite the disclaimer about not working on Kindle apps, it does work on my iPhone. This KJV is $4.99 from Amazon US.

Originally Posted by Difflugia

Thanks. I'd stopped looking at Bibles that weren't from one of the major publishers because most of them just dump the text into a word processor, but I checked epub samples of the OSNOVA KJV and ASV and they're not bad. The ASV doesn't have notes, but they both have better formatting than I was expecting.

Yes, thanks LovesMacs.

I couldn't find the translators' notes anywhere in the preview, Difflugia. Did you see them?

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Originally Posted by LovesMacs

This KJV with Apocrypha from Osnova has the original preface and translators' notes. Despite the disclaimer about not working on Kindle apps, it does work on my iPhone. This KJV is $4.99 from Amazon US.

In addition to knowing about this particular book, I am glad to know about another publisher of Bibles/Bible-related ebooks, Osnova, the one which publishes this book. I didn't know of them before. I've bookmarked their homepage.

As I am wont (some KJV lingo there. ha.) to do, after I learned about this publisher I went rummaging around their website. Lo and behold (more KJV lingo there. ha.), they offer some free books! There is also a section for daily free deals and also a section for weekend free deals. Looking over their expired offers, I've seen a good number of ebooks that I had not run across as markdowns before. I've put the webpage in my bookmarks folder labeled "Check these Sites Daily."