NASHVILLE, TN (July 7, 2009) – Check today’s most popular books in the iTunes App Store and, amidst teen favorites like Twilight and Transformers, you’ll find a surprising pick. The Love Dare: 40 Dares, an App based on the New York Times #1 best selling book The Love Dare, has climbed steadily on iTunes charts since its release earlier this month.
But then, The Love Dare has shattered expectations in every medium it has touched.
The movie Fireproof surprised Hollywood by becoming the top-grossing independent film of 2008. It tells the story of a firefighter struggling to save his crumbling marriage who is given a book called The Love Dare. The book offers “dares” that become pivotal in rebuilding his marriage. Touched by the story of transformation, Fireproof’s early audiences asked where they could find this life-changing book.
The Love Dare, a book that presents the same 40-day challenge for husbands and wives who want to strengthen their marriage, was released by B&H Publishing Group to coincide with Fireproof’s national theater premiere. The book became a best seller on the New York Times advice list, and has spent 39 weeks to date in the list’s top ten with more than 3 million copies in print.
Now, the same message is brought to an even wider audience with the release of three Love Dare-based “Apps” (software applications) on Apple’s online store, iTunes, that markets specifically to iPhone users. Powered by BibleReader, a mobile Bible study program created by Olive Tree Bible Software, these Apps aim to transfer the complete Love Dare experience to the iPhone for mobile users.
This digital release broadens the unconventional outreach strategy that has brought the faith-based message of The Love Dare to a wide audience using channels, like movie theaters, music stores, online communities, and electronic distribution, that have traditionally been dominated by secular media.
There are three Love Dare Apps available on iTunes (see them here). “The Love Dare: eBook + HCSB BibleReader” presents the full text of The Love Dare book, along with live links for each scripture reference and complete access to the full Holman Christian Standard Bible translation. “The Love Dare: 40 Dares” features each of the book’s 40 dares with scripture reference pop-ups, and a place to check off completed dares, along with the complete text of the King James Version Bible. “The Love Dare: Reminders” includes 365 inspiring quotations from the book that users can mark as favorites and email to friends, adding personal notes.
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B&H Publishing Group is best known for books by Beth Moore (Praying God’s Word), Henry Blackaby (Experiencing God), and Vicki Courtney (TeenVirtue) and for developing the Holman Christian Standard Bible™ translation and its related products including The Apologetics Study Bible. The company also published Oliver North’s recent New York Times bestseller, American Heroes, and is a leading producer of church supplies and Spanish Bibles.
Contact: Paul Mikos
paul.mikos@bhpublishinggroup.com
Tel. 615-251-2528
http://www.bhpublishinggroup.com/lovedare/apps
Olive Tree Bible Software provides Bibles and study tools for iPhone, BlackBerry, Palm OS, Windows Mobile (Pocket PC), smartphone, and Symbian cell phones. The BibleReader™ application offers easy reading, quick navigation, rich formatting, customizable display, and powerful search capabilities. Olive Tree publishes over 500 electronic resources including 100+ translations of the Bible, commentaries, reference works, devotionals, and Christian eBooks. Original Hebrew and Greek texts with parsing tools are also available.
Contact: Sarah Peterson
sarahpeterson@olivetree.com
Tel. 509-465-0302
http://www.olivetree.com
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T.L. Higley does a remarkable job researching the characters and era of this time. The actual individuals from whom the characters are developed left lasting impressions and amazing creations in the land of Egypt. Higley is known for her travels to unusual places and landmarks, learning their history, and creating novels of great interest based on the knowledge she acquires from her journeys. While we are not all so fortunate as to travel the great world and see the amazing sights Higley has been privy to, she does us all a great deed through her novels, allowing us to experience, even in this fanciful mix of fiction and nonfiction, what she herself has seen.
Originally published on Curled Up With A Good Book at www.curledup.com
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“This collection is wonderful, especially in combination with the previous collection Passionate Conviction. It really does provide excellent essays to rationally and reasonably defend the truth of Christianity.
The best thing about this book is that it deals with numerous contemporary issues and concerns. It is hard since the popularization of Dawkins and Erhman for one to simply jump to the gospel, without first having to sort out “delusional” issues or “mistranslations” or ”corruptions.”
This book provides some of the necessary tools. Now looking at the essays covered, one will realize that other issues that are important are missing, namely that of relativism or comparative religions. So it is not a complete guide, but if one picks up passionate conviction those issues are addressed.
Therefore one might want to see which issues are of most concern to you and thus pick volumes accordingly.
The minor let down, was getting the book and starting to read Craig’s critique of dawkins only to find that it was about 3 pages (other authors give a more substantive analysis). Although it did address some issues, I wanted a lot more. Additionally, if one owns a huge collection of apologetics textbooks, one may ask is it worth it? For example Craig Evans has a chapter on Fabricating Jesus, but he has written a whole book on the issue. There are other instances of this (mostly with the Jesus of History section), in which I owned the book, in which the expert has written and from which the article may have been derived or adapted.
Moments like those made me wonder if I was getting my full money’s worth (or if i own too many books !) , but in the end I was pleased as it was a great recap and so there is so much good material in a portable compact volume.
It is an excellent volume, especially recommended for those new to the issues and challenges of the New Atheists.”
- Lemaro Thompson, customer review at Amazon.com
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Charles Spurgeon’s designation of John Broadus as the “greatest of living preachers,” and the declaration by another that Broadus is “perhaps the greatest man the Baptists have produced,” warrant a new look at the almost forgotten teacher, scholar, preacher and statesman. David Dockery, president of Union University in Jackson, Tenn., and Roger Duke, assistant professor at the Baptist College of Health Sciences in Memphis, Tenn., have provided a fresh, dynamic, informative, and inspiring perspective of this humble servant of God.
This book from Broadman & Holman Publishers is part of a new series on the history of Baptists, designed to inform and strengthen not only Baptists but also others who love the truth. Series editor Michael A. G. Haykin says: “Given the many significant changes that the world is undergoing in our day, Baptists are being tempted to divorce themselves from their theological and spiritual roots. Behind this series is the conviction that such would be suicidal and that the volumes in this series will provide a way for Baptists to learn from the past how to live faithfully for God in the present.”
- Robert L. Mounts, Florida Baptist Witness
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“In a culture whose spirituality is a mile wide and an inch deep, Kent Edwards’ call for preaching deeply is irresistible. Deep Preaching is a cogent and heartfelt call for preaching beyond the status quo. As one who loves to preach, this book makes me uncomfortable about the level of passion in my heart and creates a hunger to taste the Biblical text so that when I stand to preach people will be drawn into the heart of God.”
Brian C. Stiller
President, Tyndale University College & Seminary
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“Biblical scholars and systematic theologians usually grab the headlines during contemporary debates over evangelical identity. Church historians are called to testify as even-handed observers who place the debate in context. But this context itself is often the stuff of legendary dispute among historians. David Bebbington’s Evangelicalism in Modern Britain, published in 1989, has set the terms of theological discourse by describing the historical context from which the modern movement emerged. In time for the book’s 20th anniversary, a team of renowned scholars has published The Advent of Evangelicalism, where they reflect on Bebbington’s vast influence and challenge several of his most controversial claims.”
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She has found the truth.
“In Exposure, Robin Miller has done what most novelists fail to do. She has
discovered the holy grail of fiction; she has found the truth.”
Brandt Dodson Author of Daniel’s Den by Harvest House Publishers
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Is a high-octane, must read!
“With great plot twists, strong characters, and just the right amount of romance, Deliver Us from Evil is a high-octane, must read! Robin Caroll nailed the gritty, tough world of law enforcement and brought to light the tragedy of human trafficking in this powerful novel.”
—Mark Mynheir, homicide detective and author of The Night Watchman.
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Robin Miller hits it out of the park with this thrilling new novel. Exposure picks you up on page one and takes you on a ride you’ll love page after page. And when all is said and done, you’ll want to read it again just for the pure pleasure of wonderful storytelling. Can’t wait for the next novel from this author. A must read!!
Wanda Dyson – best-selling author – Shepherd’s Fall
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‘Ripped from the headlines’
The kind of novel ‘Ripped from the headlines’ was meant to describe. Compelling. – James Scott Bell, bestselling author of Try Fear and Decieved
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