Last days of The Missionary, Promotion

The drawing for the book, The Missionary, will be held on September 14th, at 6:00pm Pacific time.

You do not want to miss out on this great opportunity to win a book that is autographed by William Carmichael, and is one of the best Christian fiction books in a long while.

Read my last post to see some details about the book, and then come back and subscribe to my newsletter on the right sidebar. You get lots of goodies by doing that:

  • You will start receiving a free newsletter that many have said is inspiring and informative. There are four pages with different topics on each page.

              The front page will have the latest news, plus excerpts from, Signs of Hope: Ways to Survive in an Unfriendly World.

               Another page for now will be a travel page. I will have about three more issues with guest traveler Ron Keleman sharing his travels to India. The first installment was int the last issue. If you want to read that let me know by emailing me at the address at the bottom on the newsletter, and I will get it to you.

               A third page will be a sports page. It is for the many OSU Beaver fans who like to come to this blog and read the latest news about the Beavers. There is quite a following for this page.

               A fourth page will be a resource page that will have articles on how to cope in this troubled world.

  • When you subscribe you will also be placed in all future drawings for books that have the author’s autograph and personal notes in them. I will give away about one each month. These books are from well known authors like: William Paul Young, (The Shack,) David Relin, (Three Cups of Tea), Shawn Grady, (Through the Fire,) and many more. These will be great books to read, and be collector items as well.
  • By subscribing you will be able to download my eBook, The Top 25 Ways to Survive in a Troubled World.

So let’s see……

Free newsletter, Free eBook, and free top selling books with autographs?  Any questions? Find a better blog that gives you this much. I do not think you can.

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The Planet of the Ants!

The Planet of the Ants

I had an ongoing battle with ants in my driveway. They came up every spring, and I kinda let them work in peace. They are one of God’s creatures, don’t you think? If they stay away from my house, they can march around all they want, and have their little families.

BUT!! This year they became aggressive! They seemed more organized. Big groups of them came out of the cracks at once. Out front were the winged ants. They must have been their air force. Then there were some very militant looking ants. That must have been their marines. Following that was a huge amount of marching ants that came in groups and maneuvered around like they were trying to out flank me. They must have been the army.

The winged ants are much faster than the rest. If they get airborne they can cause much damage. The marine ants come at you like they will fight to the end, and they protect each other with tremendous valor. The army guys are very good at setting up observation posts, and getting behind you with of their infiltration techniques.

I decided I needed to come up with a counter attack. I tried to walk among them to make them to flatten out a bit. This didn’t work, because the “marines,” rushed in and covered my shoes with their little bodies. I ran!

Then I tried the old faithful bug spray. This seemed to work at first as they had many casualties. They dropped back into the cracks, and I did a victory dance.

However, the next day, they must have called up the reserves because there were ten times as many ants as the day before, and they didn’t look like happy campers.

Fear began to fill my soul. I could see the headline in the local paper. “Man eaten alive by angry mob of ants!”

I retreated into my garage for a planning session. I watched as the black mass out on the driveway came my way! There was no time to lose.

Then I remembered the Ace Hardware man, (Ace is the place, you know,) told me about a new ant treat that comes in a can like Pringles chips. It looks pretty harmless. When you put some in your hand, it appears to be ground cereal.

I ran to the garden cupboard, and found the can. I advanced towards the ants. They kept coming towards me. This would be the deciding battle.

I sprinkled some of the “food,” in front of the oncoming hoard of ants. The first row of ants ignored the food at first. The second row stopped. It looked like they smelled the goodies. Then all of a sudden that row of ants started rolling around. They were wincing in pain. The first row stopped and went back to the second row. BIG mistake! They started touching the goodies, and then they too curled up in pain.

Row after row came crawling over the dead ants in front of them, like the civil war, when the soldiers very close to the enemy shot at them as they stood in rows.

This battle went on for about a half hour, and then I started feeling guilty. Those ants had families. They had children. Some were dads. Some were moms, aunts, uncles, cousins. I was wiping out a whole generation.

I stopped laying down the killer food, but it was too late. There was not one ant standing. All were withering in pain and heading to the ant heaven in the sky. I had wiped out a whole nation with one battle.

I don’t see many ants in the driveway anymore. I’m so thankful, because the guilt I still carry wouldn’t allow me to do mass extinction again.

If you have ants outside your house, think about what they are doing. Are they destroying anything? Do they get into the house? Are they too aggressive? If you say no to these questions, you can adopt them. Feed them all you want. As a matter of fact I will tell my ants they can pack-up and come to see you. They will be like the long lost relatives that say they want to visit for a couple of days, and then they stay for months. Enjoy!

Free Book Promotion fror the April 15th Deadline is over.

The special free promotion, which is giving away free autographed books of The Shack, ended at 5:00 P.M Pacific Time..

A drawing is now being conducted, and the winners will be notified by email. GOOD LUCK!!!

There will be a new promotion announced on Friday! It is another fun one that will have free goodies for the subscribers.

 

Stay tuned!

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