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Pat Hannon @phannon October 13, 2009 Leave a Comment

Booktober Fest Giveaway #2: Holy Roller by Julie Lyons

Thanks to the good folks at Multnomah Books, here’s the second giveaway for Booktober Fest 09:

Holy Roller: Finding Redemption and the Holy Ghost in a Forgotten Texas Church

Book Summary:

Julie Lyons was working as a crime reporter when she followed a hunch into the South Dallas ghetto. She wasn’t hunting drug dealers, but drug addicts who had been supernaturally healed of their addictions. Was there a church in the most violent part of the city that prayed for addicts and got results?

At The Body of Christ Assembly, a rundown church on an out-of-the-way street, Lyons found the story she was looking for. The minister welcomed criminals, prostitutes, and street people–anyone who needed God. He prayed for the sick, the addicted, and the demon-possessed, and people were supernaturally healed.

Lyons’s story landed on the front page of the Dallas Times Herald. But she got much more than just a great story, she found an unlikely spiritual home. Though the parishioners at The Body of Christ Assembly are black and Pentecostal, and Lyons is white and from a traditional church background, she embraced their spirituality–that of “the Holy Ghost and fire.”

It’s all here in Holy Roller–the stories of people desperate for God’s help. And the actions of a God who doesn’t forget the people who need His power.

Want a free copy of Holy Roller? Leave a comment on this post by 11:59 PM on Thursday, October 15. The winner will be selected on Friday, October 20, using The Random Integer Generator at random.org.

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