12 Days Before Christmas Book Giveaway: Day 5 Winners

Here are the winners from Day 5’s giveaway. Don’t worry if you weren’t one of our winners, there are plenty of more prizes to win between now and Christmas Eve. Be sure to head on over to BibleGeekGoneWild.com for today’s giveaway.

The winners and the books they won are listed below. Our thanks again go out to Accordance Bible Software, Broadman & Holman Publishing, and Zondervan, who sponsored this day’s giveaway.

Winner #1 — Sam Rogers

Winner #2 — Brandon Lehr (www.my-livinghope.blogspot.com)

Winner #3 — Jim Drake

12 Days Before Christmas Book Giveaway: Day 2 Winners

Before I announce the winners of the Day 2 contest, I want to be sure you all realize we are doing one giveaway each day from now until Christmas Eve. So go over to CrossFocusedReviews.com for another chance to win in today’s giveaway.

Yesterday, we had just under 100 people sign up for the Day 2 giveaway; and we had to narrow them down to just four winners! The winners were chosen randomly, using a random sequence generator. And so, without further ado, the winners are:

Winner #1 — William Kessel

Winner #2 — Guerite Harrell (www.boldlion.blogspot.com)

Winner #3 — Elizabeth Hankins (www.hankinsfamily.com)

Winner #4 — Micah Tanis

Milestones, Markers and More

Recently my blog passed a few significant milestones. I thought I’d take the opportunity to reminisce a little and also mention a few upcoming plans.

Two posts ago, on August 25th, I posted my 1,000th blog post. And my most recent post, on Aug. 31st was my 100th book or media review. We’re up to over 6,800 comments and close to 500 blog subscribers. I want to thank everyone who’s followed my blog and helped keep it alive this long. We’re closing in on 6 years this Fall.

Along the way, I’ve started a few other ventures. A couple have passed by the wayside, but KJVOnlyDebate.com is still going strong (although I don’t post as much as I’d like to there anymore). I contribute at Re-Fundamentals.org still, and occasionally you’ll find a post of mine on other blogs.

I also started CrossFocusedReviews.com with my friend Shaun Tabatt. Alright, I’ll go ahead and let the cat out of the bag. Shaun and I will be launching a book related podcast this month. Stay tuned for more details on that.

Speaking of books, SharperIron.org has asked me to be their book review editor, and so I hope to help them start publishing book reviews more often. More details to come on that announcement too. If you follow Sharper Iron, let me know as I’ll want to see if I can get you to do some book reviews for them.

I enjoy the blogging and the book reviewing, but I know this isn’t what makes me special or important. Jesus Christ shed his blood for me, and that’s all I could ever ask for. I need his grace each and every day just like you. Thanks for following my blog, I trust it is a blessing to some of you and at least somewhat entertaining for others.

Okay, enough about me and my blog. Back to regularly scheduled programming, I promise!

KJB 1611 Commemorative Edition Giveaway

In honor of the 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible (which was officially yesterday), I’m hosting a giveaway of a free copy of Hendrickson’s KJB 1611 Commemorative Edition Hardback Bible. Check out the details of the contest over at my group KJV themed blog: KJVOnlyDebate.com.

Also, if you haven’t checked out my video review of A Visual History of the King James Bible by Donald Brake, you should. There’s a lot of history in visual form, which captures the beauty and wonder of the history of our English Bible.

The Reformed Cast to Interview Me on KJV-Onlyism Tonight

Today, April 25 at 6pm Central Time, I’ll be interviewed by my friend Scott Oakland of The Reformed Cast on the topic: “What is KJV-Onlyism?

Additional details of the interview can be found here. You’ll be able to listen live at Talkshoe.com (you can also find a player at Scott’s website: ReformedCast.com). You’ll also be able to download it from there, or via SermonAudio or iTunes (see ReformedCast.com for links or subscribe buttons).

I’ve been interviewed by Scott before on Fundamentalism and Reformed Theology, and am looking forward to being on his show again.

I’m interested if any of my readers have any requests for something I should cover. We have an hour and I’m sure Scott will have his own questions too. I’d love to try to deal with points that readers raise here, however. So feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments.

For the extra ambitious, you can listen to the last podcast I did on this topic over at Understanding Our Times radio.

UPDATE: The audio from tonight’s interview is now available for free download at ReformedCast.com.