Audra Jennings

New Growth Press’ Spirit of Giving Family Devotionals Giveaway For active families, reading the Bible together can feel overwhelming. However, family Bible study doesn’t have to be complicated! With just ten minutes a day, parents have enough time to pass on the most valuable treasure the world has ever known.  Start off the new year resolved to study the Bible together. New Growth Press has you covered and is giving away a family devotional package every family will want to win! In this third and final Spirit of Giving giveaway of the Christmas season, New Growth Press is giving away THREE gift boxes of family devotionals (retail value of $148 each). From December 3-8, you can enter to win one of family devotional boxes. Click on the photo or scroll down to the end to enter. Each gift box includes one copy of the following family devotionals written by Marty Machowski: Listen Up: 10-Minute Family Devotions on the Parables Children love stories, an...

Thank you to everyone who participated in today's tour! It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old...or for somewhere in between! Enjoy your free peek into the book! You never know when I might play a wild card on you! Today's Wild Card author is: Marty Machowski Illustrated by:  A. E. Macha and the book: The Gospel Story Bible:  Discovering Jesus in the Old and New Testaments New Growth Press (December 5, 2011) ***Special thanks to Audra Jennings – The B and B Media Group – for sending me a review copy.*** ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Marty Machowski is a Family Life Pa...

Marty Machowski’s new offering for families transforms hearts one story at a time Sometimes it’s easy to forget Jesus in the midst of frantic schedules, family squabbles and conflicting priorities. For many Christians, God often becomes little more than an afterthought after days absorbed and depleted by the busyness of life. But the truth is that he is the hero of every story—including the mundane, ordinary ones we experience on a regular basis. That is why Marty Machowski beckons families to take time out from the daily grind to be transformed by the message of the Good News in his latest release, The Gospel Story Bible: Discovering Jesus in the Old and New Testaments (New Growth Press, November 2011). Based on the ESV Bible, this uniquely illustrated Bible storybook uses 156 stories to present God’s plan of salvation in Christ from its opening narrative in Genesis to its finale in Revelation. This easy-to-read storybook written for children from preschool to high sc...