For years, Drexel Gilbert communicated with you through the TV screen, delivering the news. Now, she wants to talk to you again. This time, her message is more personal. She wants to share with you her thoughts on gaining a positive, faithful, successful way of life. Drexel’s unique approach includes this exciting video daily devotional and companion journal. Through the camera lens, she delivers daily inspiration for those who need motivation and inspiration “on the go” and who desire a more personal approach in their quest for higher living. Available on DVD or audio CD, this production includes 31 inspirational stories and timeless truths that will motivate you to live each day to the fullest. Each vignette is inspired by Drexel’s faith, and an experience from her more than 25 years in television news. With titles like “Makeup!” “The Blooper Reel”, “Assignment Desk” and “Reporter’s Notebook”, you’ll learn a little about the news business and a lot about adopting a positive approach to life! The companion soft-cover journal is designed to give you time to reflect upon the messages and scriptures and encourages you to document the ways you may choose to apply them to your own life. Crossroads Books & Gifts is pleased to make these devotionals available to you. We have the DVD playing so that you can view before you buy. The DVD/Journal and Audio CD/Journal sets are $18.00 each. Also, we will soon have Drexel in the store for a seminar featuring her motivational programs that will help you to live “The Inspired Life”
Crossroads Books & Gifts is taking part in the National Bibles for Troops Campaign.
Customers can come to the store, and buy and sign a Bible that will be given
to an active-duty U. S. soldier serving somewhere in the world
Mobile, AL, June 16, 2008 - Across the nation, an effort is underway to sign and send 100,000 Bibles to American troops in 100 days. Tens of thousands of people are expected to go to a local Christian bookstore, purchase a $4.99 camo-covered special edition Bible, write a personal message inside the front cover of the Bible, and give it back to the retailer to be shipped to an American soldier serving somewhere around the world.
At a special display station in at least 1000 participating Christian bookstores across the country, including Crossroads Books & Gifts, located at 1401 Hillcrest Road, Mobile, AL, caring Americans will be able to purchase, sign, and send the Operation Worship special edition of the New Living Translation. The Christian retailer will then send the signed Bible—along with thousands of others—to be distributed free-of-cost to active military via hundreds of military chaplains around the world who have requested Bibles.
“What better impact can you have on a soldier than to provide them with the Word of God?” said Jeff Hilliard, cofounder of Open Window Foundation and Operation Worship, a national not-for-profit ministry whose mission is to enrich the spiritual lives of military personnel. “No matter how we feel about the war, our soldiers need our support. This is an incredible way for ordinary Americans to support our soldiers in a personal and meaningful way.”
“Soldiers continue to ask for Bibles in the field,” Hilliard said. “One chaplain I talked to estimated that out of 40 soldiers attending a field church service from the back of a HumVee, only 2 to 5 of them will have a Bible. There is a great need.” When Bibles are made available, he reports, they are eagerly received by soldiers—many of whom are confronting some of the toughest challenges of their lives.
This special edition Operation Worship Bible includes lined note pages at the front for a message of encouragement, warm words of thanks and support from retired Army Chaplain Steven R. Young, a brief introduction to the Bible for those who are encountering its truth for the first time, a topical reference listing, and the complete NLT text, one of the most readable and understandable Bible translations
available today. Join us in sending God's word to our troops. If you have any questions, please call our store at 251-776-1515.
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