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Touching the Hem Blog Tour

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Touching the HemWe are kicking off a blog tour for Touching the Hem: A Biblical Response to Physical Suffering today!

About the Book: After receiving a life-changing, incurable diagnosis, author Elizabeth Johnson poured into scripture, looking for answers on how she was supposed to respond as a Christian. From a sprained ankle or a terminal illness, we are all bound to suffer physical pain at some point in our lives.  Whether it’s an illness or injury Touching the Hem explains to those that are hurting how to cope by looking upward, outward and inward.

Book Tour Events: This week only score Touching the Hem for the Kindle for just $2.99! Follow along the book blog tour to see what these reviewers thought of Elizabeth’s work:

July 8

Jacqui at FaithandSimplicity.com

Holly at Hollybarrett.org

Jennifer at desertjuniper.blogspot.com

July 9

Kalynn at wordswithbooks.com

Catherine at aspiritedmind.com

Bernadette at barefoothippiegirl.com

July 10

Keren at kerenthrelfall.com

July 11

Suzanne at princapecos.blogspot.com

July 12

Sarah at fontenblog.blogspot.com

July 13

Kim at fanciedfreedom.wordpress.com

Donna at encouragementacres.blogspot.com

 

 

Healing Hearts Blog Tour

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Healing HeartsThis week we invite you to join us for a virtual book tour promoting Dr. Hisashi Nikaidoh’s book Healing Hearts. It’s a great opportunity to hear what other avid readers have to say about this powerful, hope-filled book.

About the Book: After his son’s death, Dr. Hisashi Nikaidoh sought comfort from the very parents he had once tried to comfort. The eight mothers, who all share a special connection with Dr. Nikaidoh, are courageously and honestly opening up in the pages of Healing Hearts about the experience of losing a child.

Blog Tour Events: This week only purchase Healing Hearts for your Kindle for just $4.99For those in the Dallas area you are invited to a book signing event on Sunday, August 14 at 2pm at the Lincoln Park Barnes and Noble.

 

July 8

Erica at thevisserclan.blogspot.com

July 9

Danyel at orchidbleu.com

July 10

Dan at thinkrhema.wordpress.com

Megan at hopintomyworld.blogspot.com

July 11

Kemi at homemakingorganized.com

Jo Ann at joannjoneswalczak.blogspot.com

July 12

Matt at matt-freeman.quazen.com

Megan at megansponderings.wordpress.com

July 13

Debbie at couponsim.com

 

Summer Sale: Five Books for the 4th!

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Need a gAmbassador's top summer reads ood book for the upcoming July 4th holiday? Ambassador recommends five great summer reads and this week they’re all on sale for $2.99 each for the Kindle! There’s nothing better than stretching out poolside or on the beach with a great book. And we’ve got some hot titles to add to your summer lineup:

Alana Candler, Marked for MurderAlana Candler, Marked for Murder by Joanie Bruce: Add some suspense to your summer with the search for Alana Candler’s stalker. When someone kidnaps her from a hotel and leaves her to die, Jaydn Holbrook, CEO and owner of the largest company in Tennessee, saves her life and promises to protect her. Alana’s trust in God’s protection intrigues him and compels him to explore her faith further. As tensions build, Jaydn and Alana are caught up in a dangerous web of hiding from the pursuer trying to kill them and fighting the attraction they feel for each other. BUY NOW

An Intimate CollisionAn Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus by Craig Lounsbrough: This summer, face a sweeping and torrential infusion of what God intends for your life. Many of us live out flat, marginalized and ineffectual Christian lives. We fall achingly short of intimately connecting with and deeply interjecting the truths of scripture into the everyday realities of our lives as we live them out amidst the incessant demands and tangled complexities of the 21st century. Commit to change this summer. BUY NOW

Making RoomMaking Room by Elisa Pompili: Join 26-year-old Elizabeth on a two-week vacation to the North Carolina coast. While there, Elizabeth is intrigued by Nathan Monroe, a man who challenges her in all things faith- and family- related. Elizabeth can’t figure out why, but she feels compelled to share pieces of her story with Nathan, leading the pair into a deeper bond than Elizabeth could have ever expected. Can Elizabeth and Nathan’s relationship sustain the distance and their different beliefs? Will Elizabeth ask God for help, or will her continual resistance keep her from experiencing God’s promise of a foundational, unending sense of peace? BUY NOW

Silo CountrySilo Country by Amanda Robin Larcher: Summer in France as young Amanda Vissac moves from Paris to the small village of Thym with her family. She must adjust to a new life and new friends, navigating childhood, school bullying, and questions about God. BUY NOW

 

Till The Storm Passes ByTill the Storm Passes By by AnnaLee Conti: A quest for answers and a deathbed confession compel Evie Parker to cross the continent to Juneau, Alaska, where she struggles to unravel a past shrouded in mystery. Can she come through storms, both physical and emotional, to open her heart to true love? BUY NOW

 

Google + Hangout: Chat with Author Peter Hubbard and Win Prizes

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Love Into LightYou’re invited to a Google + Hangout with author Peter Hubbard on Tuesday, July 2 at 7pm Central. We’ll be discussing the Defense of Marriage Act ruling, the end of Exodus International and Peter’s new book, Love Into Light: The Gospel, The Homosexual and The Church.

Could God use one of the most controversial moral issues in our nation to awaken His church rather than damage it? Pastor Peter Hubbard believes He can. In his new book Love Into Light: The Gospel, The Homosexual and The Church Hubbard asks “How can Christians live in a culture that promotes the gay lifestyle, yet worship in a culture that never talks about it– other than possibly to condemn it?”

Love Into Light seeks to inject the cultural conversation with the same love and truth that Jesus offers. For those that see homosexuality as somehow worse than other sins, Hubbard offers clarity through his real-life counseling examples and scripture, explaining that self-righteous judgment of homosexuality is a sin just like homosexual behavior itself. “If our attitude toward a gay or lesbian person is disgust, we have forgotten the gospel,” says Hubbard. And for those who feel the Bible is an outdated resource on the topic, Hubbard argues its relevance.

Please RSVP now! (Click “yes” under “are you going?”)

Still not sure if you should attend? Here are three more reasons:

1. We guarantee you’ll walk away with fresh insight into this challenging topic!

2. We’ll be offering an EXCLUSIVE discount for the Love Into Light ebook!

3. We’ll be giving away great prizes during the Google + Hangout!

Facebook Giveaway: Win a Copy of Silo Country!

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Silo CountryIt’s the end of the month! You know what that means! It’s time for our monthly Facebook giveaway here at Ambassador International! This month we are giving away one free copy of Silo Country to one lucky reader! Make sure you enter our Facebook giveaway to win this adorable book about growing up in France!

Meet Amanda! She just moved from Paris to the small village of Thym with her family. Like any child, she is inquisitive. She has questions about everything, including God. Follow this young heroine as she navigates childhood, school bullying, and questions about God. Drawn from personal experience, the author shares her own experiences growing up in France. Make sure you enter to win your free copy of Silo Country: The Wind Blow Wherever It Pleases!

New Book Explores Christian Response to Pain

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Touching the HemAuthor Uses Personal Experience with Physical Suffering to Help Others

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  Whether it’s a sprained ankle or a terminal illness, we are all bound to suffer physical pain at some point in our lives. But as Christians, how should we respond to that affliction? Whether it’s an illness or injury Touching the Hem: A Biblical Response to Physical Suffering (Ambassador International; May 2013; $11.99, paperback) explains to those that are hurting how to cope by looking upward, outward and inward.

In 2007 author Elizabeth Johnson received an incurable diagnosis.  Doctors discovered she has an auto-immune disease that led to chronic fatigue, emergency surgeries and a new way of life. “God used my illness to completely rearrange my life,” she explains. “I was desperate to find a book that taught me how to respond to this devastating news and I couldn’t find anything.” Since Elizabeth was no longer able to work, she spent many hours at home resting, regaining strength and writing.

Touching the Hem prompts readers to seek answers in five areas: God’s character, God’s works, our circumstances, our response and God’s response. Touching the Hem also provides valuable resources including a chart identifying healings performed during Christ’s earthly ministry, a catalog of verses that explain the purpose of trials and practical suggestions for dealing with illness. “When I received my diagnosis I was overwhelmed with the desire to study God’s Word on the subject of sickness and healing,” she says. “My hope and prayer is that this book instructs and encourages others who find themselves or their loved ones in similar situations.”

About the Author:  Elizabeth Johnson was diagnosed with Wegener’s Granulomatosis in 2007, shortly before she and her husband were married. Elizabeth and her husband, James, currently reside in South Carolina where they are preparing for a dual ministry in church-planting and military chaplaincy.

To learn more about the author and her book, Touching the Hem, visit her at Touchingthehembook.com or facebook.com/touchingthehem.  To connect with the author, please contact publicist Alison Storm at [email protected].

 

Flavors of Ireland: A Gift for the G8 Summit Leaders

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flavors_of_irelandAmbassador International’s popular cookbook Flavors of Ireland is now in the hands of the most powerful people in the world. The eight G8 prime ministers and presidents – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron, US president Barack Obama, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, France’s Francois Hollande, Italian PM Enrico Letta, Canada’s Stephen Harper and Shinzo Abe of Japan – all gathered in Northern Ireland this week. In addition to discussing foreign affairs the leaders enjoyed some incredible food created by the hands of Lough Erne Resort’s executive chef Noel McMeel.

McMeel is featured in two Ambassador International cookbooks. In fact, the dignitaries and many others who gathered for the G8 summit were given a souvenir copy of Flavors of Ireland by Margaret Johnson. Flavors of Ireland takes readers on a culinary tour of one of Europe’s fastest growing food destinations.

Chef Noel McMeel's Creations

Chef Noel McMeel’s Creations

McMeel, a well-known chef, has cooked for many dignitaries throughout his career. He told the Fermanagh News, “We’re going to be very focused on what we’re going to be doing, and how we’re going to be doing it. We’re using the best of local produce and we’re going to show the best of what Northern Ireland has to offer,” says McMeel. “We’re very capable, I’ve done a lot of different events like this before. Not as big, but I think it’s so important that we focus on what we’re going to serve them and their guests.”

Pastor Makes Plea to Church to Rethink Approach to Homosexuality

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Love Into LightNew Book Encourages Discussion About The Homosexual, The Church and The Gospel

For immediate release: Could God use one of the most controversial moral issues in our nation to awaken His church rather than damage it? Pastor Peter Hubbard believes He can. In his new book Love Into Light: The Gospel, The Homosexual and The Church, (Ambassador International; June 2013; $12.99, paperback) Hubbard asks “How can Christians live in a culture that promotes the gay lifestyle, yet worship in a culture that never talks about it– other than possibly to condemn it?”

According to an ABC News/Washington Post survey, Americans’ view of same-sex marriage flipped between 2006 and 2013, from 58% against to 58% for. Hubbard, who leads North Hills Community Church in Taylors, South Carolina, says he and other church leaders are under enormous pressure from opposing forces: secular culture lobbying the church for acceptance of the gay lifestyle and conservative Christians who refuse to recognize, discuss or even mention homosexuality. “The first time I counseled a man struggling with same-sex attraction (SSA), I felt awkward,” admits Hubbard at the very start of the book. “The more I listened, the more I learned, the more I realized—we are not different. We are the same. Our specific battles and sins may vary, but our hearts are the same. And our daily need for the grace of Jesus is the same.”

Love Into Light seeks to inject the cultural conversation with the same love and truth that Jesus offers. For those that see homosexuality as somehow worse than other sins, Hubbard offers clarity through his real-life counseling examples and scripture, explaining that self-righteous judgment of homosexuality is a sin just like homosexual behavior itself. “If our attitude toward a gay or lesbian person is disgust, we have forgotten the gospel,” says Hubbard. And for those who feel the Bible is an outdated resource on the topic, Hubbard argues its relevance.

The release of the book is also accompanied by the launch of LoveIntoLight.com where readers will find answers to difficult questions and situations Christians face. The site includes helpful resources and ministry suggestions for pastors and church leaders.

About the Author: Peter Hubbard is Teaching Pastor at North Hills Community Church in Taylors, SC, where he has communicated the truth of the scriptures since the church began in 1992. He has earned two masters degrees and is currently completing a doctor of ministry degree in pastoral counseling at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia.

For more information about the author and his ministries go to loveintolight.com.  To connect with the author please contact publicist Alison Storm at [email protected]