Pomegranates in Bloom

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CHRISTMAS GREETINGS!

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Get Busy Writing!

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One Last Look at Summer

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NEW ARRIVAL!

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Our next book is now available for preview:

The MYSTERY and The FULLNESS
Part 2
Calling love-sick hearts into full intimacy with the Lord

Copies will be arriving in House in June
304 pages; 6x9 paperback; retail $18.95

Easter

2007-04-10T09:31:00.000-07:00

Three-Crosses Dish Cloth

For April, newbornBooks has uploaded an interview with Linda Perata. As well as being a wife, mother, pastor, and school assistant, Linda has begun to express her creative talents through photography and looming. She is weaving her way through The Psalms on her blog, "Off the Loom." She prays over each stitch of her work as she creates such wonderful gifts as Prayer Shawls, Miracle Scarves, and the Three-Cross dish cloth pictured above. All of her work is characterized by dedication and excellence. You may read her interview at the newbornBooks website.

Miracles

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Miracles... touches of glad perfection - sometimes great, or small in their daily thousands - lighten our time with Supernatural Presence, for a while. Burning bright, they are born of tears after darkness passes over - suffering darkness, often severe suffering darkness beyond chosen boundaries, beyond control. Miracles change and lift and take us passed ourselves into a new story. A deeper story.

Two beautiful, painful miracles intensely graced our little church in January - large, public miracles of severe mercy. Breaking and building all at once, crushing and healing; life and the Lord in tandem. They moved us through desperation to amazing hope and on to profound humility. Beauty remains in our fellowship, but not as simple - deeper again. Tears and awe mingle in recognition of Mighty God, conforming all things, every detail. New life stories call.

A young, South American man, son of a pastor,
married with four children all under 5, was diagnosed
with aggressive, stage 4 lymphoma just before
Christmas. He was literally given 48 hours to live
because the cancer had spread throughout his body. 
Not even chemo was offered in case it would kill him. 
This man has a powerful worship anointing on his 
life - people cry when he sings because the anointing 
calls the deep parts up. Yet, he'd left that gifting 
to pursue business opportunities for reasons that 
life offers.

Two intercessors went to pray for him in hospital the
day he was expected to die. He was in agony because 
with nothing to loose now, the doctors had agreed to 
put one dose of chemotherapy straight into his spine. 
He was going in and out of consciousness, screaming 
because of the pain. The intercessors just ended up 
crying over him. Then, they left so that this man's 
wife could say her goodbyes.

When the prayers hadn't heard anything four hours 
later, they returned to the hospital. Our friend was 
sitting up on his bed, talking, and was full of 
conviction. He said that when the intercessors started 
to pray/cry, Jesus appeared in bodily form to him at 
the end of his bed. He had told him that He had taken 
his pain (the chemo pain disappeared then) and that 
our friend has work to do! Jesus said he is to return 
to worship ministry and is to preach Christ's love in 
South America.

Since Christmas, this man has remained in hospital
because he was so weak after his cancer, and he was
receiving a full course of chemotherapy. Last week, he
was pronounced cancer-free - in remission. He has
been glowing from his hospital bed to anyone who
comes  along, and he's making  plans to record his
songs and  travel to South America. Both he and his
wife have whole-heartedly changed their direction
from business  back to ministering to people!

So, out of pain comes healing and restoration.

The same day this healing was described, I sat by a
couple and their 3 year-old daughter at church, who 
were still grieving the loss of their infant son 
several months ago to a congenital heart defect.

Sunday night we heard that on her way home from 
shopping, an SUV crossed over the median and 
slammed into two cars on the opposite side - one 
of which was this young mother's. Tragically, her 
3 year-old was killed immediately and the mom 
was critically injured and airlifted to hospital.

The day after the accident, this mom woke and 
communicated through a touch pad, but the day 
after that she became unresponsive for 48 hours.

She woke up after that 48 hours and her husband 
said to her, "You've been in a coma." And she 
said, "I know, I had some things to sort out...." 
She said she did not remember the accident but she 
somehow had known that her daughter was dead. 
While she was in that unexplained unresponsiveness 
she said the Lord took her to Heaven. She saw her 
daughter with the Lord and she saw she was okay - 
that she was actually not dead at all. The Lord 
gave this mom the choice of coming Home now, or of 
returning to Earth to "make her life count." She 
choose to come back! Her husband came to church
on Sunday and said she is amazing. From the first 
time she woke after the accident - when she had 
absolutely no will to live - to when she returned
from her coma, she had completely changed. He said 
her hospital room is filled with the Holy Spirit 
and people come to visit just to feel the 
atmosphere around her. He said she is glowing! 
She knows her daughter and her baby boy are safe 
and that she has a mission now. The Lord has filled 
her devastation with purpose. The hospital had 
said that she might be discharged in two months, 
but updated that yesterday to say that she can go 
home today! She is longing to come to church this 
Sunday and says she could feel the prayers being 
prayed for her.

Her husband knows amazing grace, too. From 
phoning to offer complete forgiveness to the family
in the SUV, to standing right beside his wife in 
her new calling, to saying last Sunday what a 
blessing it is that his last memories of his little 
girl will be of holding her in his arms at church, 
where she was so happy, and of her eating pretzels 
and marshmallows at the coffee bar....

All things, however hard, work together for good, 
above and beyond our imagining. Even when we suffer 
and loose so much through life, a touch from the 
Lord can completely change everything within us! 
Hope out of darkness - so typical of Jesus.

Humbled by His Love,
Gemma

- Publishing House News: December 2006

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We wish a fresh revelation of God's work upon our Earth this Christmas season: Work always characterized and performed with LOVE! We also wish visitors festivities, fun and all things enjoyed with family and friends.

ABOUND IN BLESSING
- the giving and the receiving!

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News:
We have been busy over the passed two months getting Part 2 of The Mystery and The Fullness to print. Expecations are for a publication date between January - February 2007.

We will still be featuring Farrell Fisher of Macedonian Ministries, Inc., USA and India in an upcoming interview. Farrell has had pressing family matters to attend to and our prayers are with him, but as a fervent preacher of the word internationally for fifty years, we are privileged that he has agreed to share his insight.

Whatsoever Things Are Lovely...

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"Finally brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable - if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - think about such things." Phil. 4: 8.

Our new store is up and running! (All profits will, as usual, be directed toward our partner ministries). Our product line is still small, but features high quality merchandise with flat rate shipping, allowing extraordinary value on purchases (only $1 shipping per purchase on five items). These products offer durable function and beauty, no shrinkage or undue fading, and a choice of printing techniques. All items offered may be customized or personalized upon request at no extra charge. We will work with you to interchange/reposition the images and text of your choice (Please allow extra time to fulfill orders depending on our volume).

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- Publishing House News: August 2006

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Our featured guest for April-August was Cheryl McGrath of Great Southland Ministries, Australia. Continue to read Cheryl's interview on our website, or ponder her excellent article on Understanding Communion previously on this blog.

For August-December 2006, we will be featuring Farrell Fisher of Macedonian Ministries, Inc., USA and India. Farrell currently has pressing family matters to attend to and our prayers are with him, but as a fervent preacher of the word internationally for fifty years, we are privileged that he has agreed to share his insight.

Our August-December winner for most inspiring contribution to our website is a writer, Hannah Hales from New Zealand. Hannah has a revealing testimony about life in a religious sect and the Holy Spirit's recovery process in her life.

newbornBooks™ still intends to provide an online store featuring inspirational photography, although opening has been delayed while we finalize details with our partner company.

We are pleased to announce that, as an associate ministry with our dear brothers and sisters of Great South Land Ministries Australia, we have committed to supporting our Spirit-filled affiliate missions around the world with all profits of our ministry above publishing and production costs. Two of these missions are featured on the newbornBooks Homepage