NEW RELEASE: THE BARD AND THE BIBLE BY BOB HOSTETLER

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The Bard and the Bible (A Shakespeare Devotional) by Bob Hostetler Publisher: Worthy Inspired (August 9, 2016) ISBN-10: 1617957240 ISBN-13: 978-1617957246 Book Description:  Did you know that the works of Shakespeare and the King James Version of the Bible were created not only in the same period, same country, and same city, but within a few hundred yards of each other?

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A Writer’s Confession

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Bob Hostetler here, offering another prayer for writers: Lord God Almighty, I confess that I have sinned against you through my own fault, in thought and word and deed, by what I have done and by what I have left undone. I confess that I have too often trusted my own strength instead of relying on yours; I have let my puny ability suffice when I could have and should have laid hold of your ready power. I confess that I have chased after mammon, and written for mere money, instead of seeking first your kingdom and your glory, and…

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Make Much Ado of Your New Book by Bob Hostetler

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I am no marketing genius, and though I’ve written forty-five books, I still have much to learn about author and book publicity. But I recently felt like I got something right with the book launch for my latest book, The Bard and the Bible: A Shakespeare Devotional, a book of daily reflections drawn from a quote from Shakespeare and a verse from the King James Version of the Bible (which were both created in the same period, country, and city). Go where people are I’ve done many book signings, and while some went better than others, they were far more…

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Verbs

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Bob Hostetler here, offering another prayer for writers:   I write today, Lord. I will be using words, and some of them will be verbs. Inspire them all, God, but especially the verbs. Hover over them. Speak them into existence. Breathe into them the breath of life. All my verbs come from you. You are my “is.” My “am.” My “see,” my “know.” You are my “laugh” and “cry,” my “wake” and “sleep,” “shiver” and “sweat,” “think” and “speak,” “jump” and “skip” and “dance” and “bounce.” There is not an action in my day, a movement of my bones, a…

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Fruit (A Writer’s Prayer)

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Bob Hostetler here, offering another prayer for writers: Holy Spirit, cultivate and proliferate your fruit in my writing. Let love permeate my words. Help me experience joy in the writing, and let my readers experience joy in reading. Use my writing to spread shalom. Give me patience in the writing. Let goodness characterize what I write, and gentleness how I write it. Make and keep me faithful to you, to the publisher, and to the reader from beginning to end, and let God-given self control guide my every thought, impulse, and decision as I write, revise, edit, and review, in…

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Transform

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Bob Hostetler here, offering another prayer for writers: Lord Jesus, you turned a meager lunch into a banquet for thousands, a common lake trout into an ATM, a brash fisherman into a water-walker, a skeptical Thomas into a staunch devotee, and a grisly death into death’s defeat. Please turn my faulty thoughts and flailing words into something worth reading. Amen.

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A Writer’s Evening Prayer

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If I have failed to heed your voice today, If I have driven any of your thoughts away, If I have written my own willful way: Dear Lord, forgive! If I have written idle words or vain, If I have worked for earthly gain,

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Two Quatrains for Writers

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Bob Hostetler here, offering another prayer for writers:   Let my writing be a blessing. Let my words all ring true, and both victory and failure bring glory, Lord, to you; Let what I write and how I write it reflect all you mean to me while also giving pleasure and changing those who read.   Bob’s latest book is The Red Letter Prayer Life, available now via Bob’s website or at fine Christian retailers everywhere.

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Keyboard Prayer

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Lord God, my Father, my King, my Sovereign, my All, I RETURN to you with all my heart, I ENTER your presence with gratitude and joy, I ESCAPE into your arms and nestle in the shadow of your wing….

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