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My book, Purple Fish: A Heart for Sharing Jesus ,  releases next month.  Wesleyan Publishing House is offering a great opportunity for a limited number of people to participate in the Purple Fish Book Launch Team.  You get a free electronic preview copy of the book in exchange for some help getting the good word out to others.  The invitation is limited to 50 bloggers/social media users -- so if you're interested, apply asap.  Here's the Link:   Purple Fish Book Club Application

The winner of my "Gardening Eden" give-away is: (Drumroll please. . .) JEFF RUGGLES of Williston, ND! Congratulations Jeff! Honorable Mention goes to my dear sister-in-law, Linda Weaver Wilson, whose name was submitted by her loving husband, Sam, in honor of her birthday. Sam -- I guess that means you're going to have buy her a birthday present after all. Seriously -- Linda -- I'm going to send you TWO good books! Thanks to everybody who participated. For those who really want a copy of Gardening Eden , You can buy it here.

I am going to give away a free copy of Michael Abbate's Gardening Eden (see last post) Here's how we're going to do it. For the next 26 hours, I'll be collecting names -- you can submit your name in one of two ways: 1) Leave a comment here at the blog with your name and town. 2) e-mail me at orangeluther@hotmail.com with "Eden" in your subject line. I will need your name and town. At 8:00 AM tomorrow (Thursday the 23rd), I will put all the names in a hat - and pull out the winner!

I will give a FREE copy of Clutter Free Christianity to the 14th person who e-mails me: send to orangeluther (at) hotmail.com Note I listed it as (at) here rather than @ because I don't want to get spammed. Be sure to put "clutter free" in the subject line. I'll report back on who won.