Cheesy Book Alert

The Arts & Crafts Bazaar has come and gone again. I provided my usual craft, which is to use my writing and design work in creating a book collecting sermons and essays. This year, with our tough economic times, I created the least expensive possible book, in order to make a worthwhile gift for only $5.

The result is Eyewitness Gospel a pocket-sized 144-page book of storytelling style sermons. A word of warning: The goal was to put together an inexpensive book with a certain style of writing. Most of the stories have appeared in one of my two earlier sermon collections Peace, Peace or Unfailing Love and the new one below. They are repeats for those who own the other books, which is why I refer to it as a cheesy book above. But to even things up, I offer the full interior of the book here online for free as an Adobe PDF. You may share it freely as long as you do so with attribution and without compensation: Free Eyewitness Gospel PDF. It is available at King of Peace for $5 through volume buying. By the book online it costs $8 plus shipping, which is more in line with bookstore prices for a comparable book.

I have also created a new sermon and religion column compilation called A Reason to Hope. The 338-page book is a loose collection of 65 sermons and essays put into sections on Identity, Baptism, Pilgrimage, and Hope. The book is available online and at the church for $15. If you buy online through Lulu, select Media Mail shipping which is the cheapest. This book is on order and should be available at the church in about a week.

As some who has published eight real books through publishers who place them in bookstores and promote them in ads and catalogs, I also find self-published books a bit cheesy. But I do my best to make the King of Peace published books to be as high a quality as possible. In this, thanks go to Maris Cato for once putting her green pen to work for the glory of God in editing my manuscripts from their "Frankish" text into something more closely approximating English.

All proceeds from any of the books go to the discretionary fund at King of Peace to assist the needy in our community.

peace,
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The Rev. Frank Logue, Pastor