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Book tour: Blue Like Play Dough by Tricia Goyer

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Woohoo! Time to giveaway another book. Aren’t you excited?

The book: Blue Like Play Dough. Author: Tricia Goyer, whom I happen to follow on that crazy time suck machine Twitter. Trisha is always tweeting mundane bits of her life, how she hates to cook and go to Walmart.

Er.. Monica those are your tweets. Tricia lives to shop at Walmart, is a great cook and has three teenagers, so her life isn’t boring. In fact, she’s like a Super Woman – she’s a teen mentor, novelist and missionary. Why can’t you be more like her, huh? Huh?

Oh, shut up.

That’s lovely. Tricia Goyer would never say shut up. She’s a PERFECT CHRISTIAN.

Wait a minute, Crazy-Monica-Voice-in-My-Head, I’ve read Tricia’s book and she’s not a perfect Christian! I have the proof – her book, Blue Like Play Dough – very encouraging to folks like us. You know, Christ follower, wife, mom, home schooler, and writer. Sometimes she screws up, but she keeps on going, letting the Lord mold her like a lump of play dough.

You do love those dashes, don’t you? You need an editor. Maybe you could hire Tricia.

ARGH!!! Go away, Crazy Monica!! I just want to tell my friends about Tricia’s book, how encouraging it is and to leave a comment if they want a chance to win a copy.

Whatever. Aren’t you going to start dinner? I bet Tricia can cook, write a smashing good blog post and lead an expository Bible study all at the same time. And her kids would never interrupt.

You’re not listening to me, Crazy Monica. Weren’t you paying attention when I read her book?

Uh. What book?

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Leave a comment to win Blue Like Play Dough. Use the Tweet This for an extra chance (and because you love me!) Then go follow Tricia on Twitter cause her tweets are really much more entertaining than mine.

Blue Like Play Dough by Tricia Goyer

Blog book tour: Holy Roller by Julie Lyons

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Holy Roller (Finding Redemption and the Holy Ghost in a Forgotten Texas Church) by Julie Lyons

Finally, a blog tour for a book that is truly unique. Holy Roller (Finding Redemption and the Holy Ghost in a Forgotten Texas Church) by Julie Lyons is unlike any book I’ve featured here before. Holy Roller is a book of much personal confession, as well as an eyewitness account of God’s power in a black Pentecostal church.

The heck with bland inspirational fiction. Christians should be reading more creative non-fiction like this one.

From the cover:

This is Lyons’ firsthand investigation into God’s power, the activities of the Holy Spirit, and the inspiring results of prayer and faith in the lives of society’s overlooked people. It’s an eye-opening, entertaining, and inspiring tale that takes readers to unexpected places. In South Dallas, people search for answers and find them. They ask for help with overwhelming problems, and receive it. And when God performs a miracle during a Sunday church service, no one is surprised.

For more about Julie Lyons and the story behind Holy Roller, read an interview at Beliefnet.

To win a copy of Holy Roller, leave me a comment here. For an extra chance to win, use the Tweet This button to send this post to your Twitter followers.

Oh dear. I’m vlogging again.

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I’m hanging out at Bibledude.net today with a little video I made about Servolution by Dino Rizzo. Come hear my story of giving away homeschooling books and how it relates to Chapter Two. Or if your not into that, at least click over to watch me be a total goofball in the video. (Writing is so much easier! Vlogging exposes all of my lame public speaking skills.)