C.H. Spurgeon's Evening Devotional
Wednesday June 11, 2025

"There brake He the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle."-Psalm 76:3
    
    Our Redeemer's glorious cry of "It is finished," was the death-knell of all the adversaries of His people, the breaking of "the and the battle." Behold the hero of Golgotha using His cross as an anvil, and His woes as a hammer, dashing to shivers bundle after bundle of our sins, those poisoned "arrows of the bow"; trampling on every indictment, and destroying every accusation. What glorious blows the mighty Breaker gives with a hammer far more ponderous than the fabled weapon of Thor! How the diabolical darts fly to fragments, and the infernal bucklers are broken like potters' vessels! Behold, He draws from its sheath of hellish workmanship the dread sword of Satanic power! He snaps it across His knee, as a man breaks the dry wood of a fagot, and casts it into the fire. Beloved, no sin of a believer can now be an arrow mortally to wound him, no condemnation can now be a sword to kill him, for the punishment of our sin was borne by Christ, a full atonement was made for all our iniquities by our blessed Substitute and Surety. Who now accuseth? Who now condemneth? Christ hath died, yea rather, hath risen again. Jesus has emptied the quivers of hell, has quenched every fiery dart, and broken off the head of every arrow of wrath; the ground is strewn with the splinters and relics of the weapons of hell's warfare, which are only visible to us to remind us of our former danger, and of our great deliverance. Sin hath no more dominion over us. Jesus has made an end of it, and put it away for ever. O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end. Talk ye of all the wondrous works of the Lord, ye who make mention of His name, keep not silence, neither by day, nor when the sun goeth to his rest. Bless the Lord, O my soul.
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Cooking the Books by Bonnie S. Calhoun with giveaway

Read to the end of this post to find out how you could win a copy of this book.





This week, the
Christian Fiction Blog Alliance
is introducing
Cooking The Books
Abingdon Press (April 2012)
by
Bonnie S. Calhoun


ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

As the Owner/Director of the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance Bonnie has helped use the 220+ blogs of the Alliance to promote many titles on the Christian bestseller list. She also owns and publishes the Christian Fiction Online magazine which is devoted to readers and writers of Christian fiction. She is the Northeast Zone Director for American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW). At ACFW she was named the ‘Mentor of the Year,’ for 2011, and she is the current President of (CAN) Christian Authors Network. Bonnie is also the Appointment Coordinator for both the Colorado Christian Writers Conference and the Greater Philadelphia Christian Writers Conference.

In her spare time she is an avid social media junkie, and teaches Facebook, Twitter, Blogging and HTML as recreational occupations. She also has a novel coming out in the Abingdon Quilts of Love series. Her novel Pieces of the Heart will publish August of 2013.

Bonnie and her husband Bob live in a log cabin on 15 acres in upstate area of Binghamton, New York with a dog and cat who consider the humans as wait-staff.

ABOUT THE BOOK

After her mother dies from a heart attack, Sloane Templeton goes from Cyber Crimes Unit to bookstore owner before she can blink. She also "inherits" a half-batty store manager; a strange bunch of little old people from the neighborhood who meet at the store once a week, but never read books, called the Granny Oakleys Book Club; and Aunt Verline, who fancies herself an Iron Chef when in reality you need a cast iron stomach to partake of her culinary disasters. And with a group like this you should never ask, “What else can go wrong?”

A lot! Sloane begins to receive cyber threats. While Sloane uses her computer forensic skills to uncover the source of the threats, it is discovered someone is out to kill her. Can her life get more crazy?

If you would like to read the first chapter of Cooking The Books, go HERE.

Watch the book video:



If you'd like to read interviews with Bonnie, try these:
Everbody Needs A Little Romance
A Christian Writers World
Novel Rocket
ACFW - Fiction Finder

Now for the giveaway.  I have one copy of Bonnie's book for giveaway.  Please head to Bonnie's web site here and tell me something you learned about Bonnie.  Please be sure to leave a way of contact.  I must limit this to US residents only please.  I'll draw a winner on Sat. April 21st.

Bonuses: 
+1 new GFC follower right hand side bar
+2 old GFC follower right hand side bar
+1 email subscriber
+1 if you came from my book blog 4 the LOVE of BOOKS
+1 GFC follower of my book blog 4 the LOVE of BOOKS  left hand side bar
+1 email subscriber of my book blog 4 the LOVE of BOOKS left hand side bar
+5 if you tell about this giveaway (blog, twitter, FB, linky, etc.  be sure to leave link where can be found)

You may put all bonuses in one comment I don't care.  makes it easier for both of us I think.  


7 comments:

  1. She runs her own business as a seamstress and clothing designer.

    +2 old GFC Follower
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    pbclark(at)netins(dot)net

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  2. The book looks interesting, please enter my name. Thank you. Judy C. Louisiana

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  3. She and her husband live in a log home on 15 acres with a pond and an apple orchard... sounds great to me.

    lkish77123 at gmail dot com

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  4. I am a GFC Follower 4 the Love of Books

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  5. I came from your book blog 4 the LOVE of BOOKS

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  6. Thank you for hosting me on your blog!

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  7. thanks for the chance read this novel

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    karenk
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