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Healing Stones Review and Giveaway
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As promised, here is my review and giveaway of Healing Stones by Nancy Rue and Stephen Arterburn. The Christian Fiction Blog Alliance featured this book earlier this week, so if you’d like to read about the authors and a plot synopsis, please visit my earlier post.
My Opinion:
I have to admit I was skeptical about this book at first. I don’t generally get into books that begin with a woman having an affair. However, I am a fan of Nancy Rue’s Lily Series for tween girls, and I’ve heard great things about Stephen Arterburn, so I thought I’d give this book a shot. Boy, am I glad I did!
Healing Stones is by far the best Christian fiction book I’ve read in a long time, and I read a lot of good stuff. By the second chapter I had been sucked into the plot, and I couldn’t put the book down. I finished in a few days, and considering how busy I’ve been lately, that’s a small miracle!
I loved this book, because it hit on so many important topics. Forgiveness, lack of forgiveness, legalism, grace, being able to forgive yourself, why Christians do bad things, truth, lies….it’s all there wrapped up in a compelling plot.
I walked away from this book really thinking about my attitude toward certain sins, toward some of the things I’ve done in life. I found myself wrestling with dilemma between the need to obey God and the need to extend grace to those who disobey. Where is the fine line of grace between legalism and looking the other way and ignoring sin? Healing Stones is definitely a book that will make you think! I highly, highly recommend this one!
Now on to the giveaway. All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post. I will close comments next Friday, February 22, 2008 at noon PST. I will draw a winner using a random number generator, and the winner will recieve my once read copy of Healing Stones.
For those of you who don’t win, I recommend that you buy yourself a copy or check it out from the library! Seriously.
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Wow I could use some good reading!
Sounds like a great book! I would love to win!
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LJ
Sounds like a great book! Please include me in your drawing! Thanks!
I have heard a lot about this book. Please sign me up! Thanks
I would love to read this book. Thanks for offering it.
I would love to be included in the drawing for this book. Thank you.
I’ve seen quite a bit about this book, what a great topic to tackle. I’m interested!
Sounds like a great book! I love Christian fiction, too. (FYI…found you via your finance blog.)
It sounds like a good book! Please include me in the drawing. Thanks.
Please include me in the drawing. I’m always looking for good books to recommend to our book club.
I would love to win this book. I think I own every Nancy Rue book for teens and adults and had no idea that she was co-authoring another. Thanks!
Can you consider myself in?
Thanks so much!
I would love to discover this author.
I like Christian fiction that is “real.” Happy endings are great, but if the entire story is like a fairy tale, it’s simply that, a fairy tale. Sometimes it’s good to read about Christians who struggle - who are human - yet find forgiveness, redemption, and renewed faith in the Lord through those struggles.
I would love to find another Christian author to read. Please include me in your drawing.
Great review Lynnae!
This books sounds awesome. Please include me in your drawing. Thank you!
Please enter me in the giveaway. Thank you.
It sounds like a really good read! Please enter me in the drawing.
Thank You!