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Free Book (Kindle) -On Earth as It Is in Heaven
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On Earth as It Is in Heaven: How the Lord's Prayer Teaches Us to Pray More Effectively by Warren Wiersbe Book Description Just as babies slowly learn to communicate in more and more complex ways, so the new believer should move from simply crying out to God to a developed prayer life. The basic elements of prayer found in the Lord's Prayer are a helpful guide to Christians hoping to enrich their prayers. In On Earth as It Is in Heaven, beloved teacher and writer Warren W. Wiersbe explains and applies the elements of the Lord's Prayer to everyday prayer so readers get excited about maturing in their personal prayer ministries. Any reader wanting to experience a more satisfying and effective prayer life will cherish this thoughtful book. Experience more satisfying and effective prayer Do you feel like your prayer life is stagnant? Like you're saying the same things to God that you did when you first started praying? Just as young children slowly learn to communicate in more and more complex ways, so Christians should move from simply crying out to God to a mature, developed prayer life. The basic elements found in the Lord's Prayer are a helpful guide to believers hoping to enrich their prayers. In On Earth as It Is in Heaven, beloved teacher and writer Warren W. Wiersbe explains and applies the elements of the Lord's Prayer so you can reach new levels of maturity in your own personal prayer life. Warren W. Wiersbe has served as a pastor, seminary instructor, radio Bible teacher, and conference speaker. He has authored or edited more than 150 books, including 50 People Every Christian Should Know, On Being a Servant of God, and The Dynamics of Preaching. Today his primary ministry is writing. |
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Can we have a forum section for free Christian eBooks so it can easily be ignored in the list of new posts?
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I don't think they need a separate section, but maybe a tag that says Christian. That way those who are interested can see them easily, and those who aren't can avoid them.
I'm not interested in free Romance books, but that doesn't mean I want them moved elsewhere. They're usually tagged or otherwise identified and that's good enough for me. Besides, I know people who read all sorts of books, and it's better for them to have them all in one place. |
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Seems to me that it takes about 1 second to click a title and perhaps two more (at most) to see you are not interested and click on ctrl-w to close the tab and move on. Or, for those that read the title, I'd have thought you could have determined from it that it was not likely to be of interest to you. |
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In addition to John's suggestion, I would also embrace subforums for [insert device name, e.g., Kindle]-only offerings with the proviso that if a book subsequently became available for more than just one device, the post could be moved to a multidevice subforum. And if neither is going to fly (which is what I suspect), then I'd ask for a rule that requires the thread title to include the information or at least that the information be listed in bullet form at the very beginning of the message, before description/title information. As to your suggestion about discerning it from the title, On Earth As It is In Heaven could be apocalyptic vampire novel with greek gods tormenting satanists, as easily as it is a christian novel. |
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are vampire novels hypothetical?? lol
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I am firmly against subforums, unless you can log into the main forum and see ALL the posts at one time (which, from what I've seen here, you can't). I don't feel duped to open a thread and discover it's a sports book, horror, a memoir or any number of other genres I am not interested in (including Christian fiction). I simply close the thread and move on. |
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I do like tagging or otherwise indicating what a book's about, but I don't want to get into a froth of nerdly rage about it.
I'd be more worried by separation because sometimes a book of a type I wouldn't normally read will catch my eye, and I'd miss it if it were stuck in a ghetto that's 99% books I have no interest in. |
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OTOH, I suspect that there are certain categories of books that we avoid because we know that no matter how well-written we can't get past certain prejudices. Included in that for me are vampire and horror books -- I've tried them numerous times and never was able to complete them. As regards books labeled christian and that are fiction, if they are so labeled, my experience is that the author is preaching in the guise of a story (an allegory?). For the most part, this is what is expected by readers, I think, who see soemthing labeled as christian fiction. I'm not interested. However, a book labeled as christian that is nonfiction could interest me because the perspective and information are different. I would add that the category/genre of christian fiction is a fairly well-defined standard category. I've not seen the same -- or at least not with the same frequency -- usage with other religious affiliations; christian stands out uniquely, perhaps because of its evangelicalism. I'm not sure what the best answer is to the problem. Probably what I do now: open the thread and as soon as I discover what genre(s) the book falls into, I either read on or close the thread. |
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+1 for tagging, or a simple parenthesis in the header to indicate genre.
I agree with Lemurion that aggressive filtering could have the unfortunate effect of preventing me from viewing content I could learn to appreciate given a chance. I have my literary lines drawn, but no fences need to be up. |
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