What is sacrificial love?
What do you think sacrificial love is? I think it is…a pregnant mom choosing to give birth and her life instead of receiving treatment for cancer… a parent caring for their child with leukemia as they go through chemo treatments – lost sleep, cleaning up vomit and everything else, rushing them to the hospital when their fever spikes and staying by their side through the long days and even longer nights to care for their every need.
What else is sacrificial love (in more general terms)…giving up what you really, really want for someone else – and I’m not just talking about a candy bar…being willing to die for someone and living for them every day…throwing yourself in harm’s way and pushing someone else out of facing that same danger
Back Cover Review
I would describe this book as mainstream fantasy – of course with each unique story Dekker seems to create genres of his own. This book is filled with darkness, seduction and lust-filled characters – and a hero blinded from the truth. The redemption in the story eventually shines like a blazing torchlight into the pitch-blackness.
Dekker’s firm hold on the truth of God’s passionate outrageous love for us shines through the pages. If we could grasp the extent of God’s Love for each one of us, then we could truly change the world.
I think that after thirty-five years, I may be starting to get it – how much He loves me and those around me. I want to learn to live centered in the love of God moment-by-moment and to let His love pour out of me into the lives of everyone around me. Bottom line, isn’t that what our faith is really supposed to be about? This seems to be something that the Lord is highlighting in my life right now and the timing of Immanuel’s Veins was perfect!
T-shirt Giveaway
This is no cheesy t-shirt! Its definitely unique and unusual, but strangely cool. The picture on the front is of a heart and written in red it says, “spread the love” – don’t you want one?! All you have to do is comment to enter to win (I’m sorry, no overseas entrants please).
4 comments:
Has anyone won this shirt yet? I didn't see any comments, so maybe I'm not doing this right.
But I think my hubbie would love this shirt . . . and I love Ted Dekker's books!
Hi Melissa! You did it the right way!!! I also ran the giveaway on Facebook though and only had comments there. I'm sorry the giveaway has ended, but thank you so much for commenting!!! =) ~Gretchen
p.s. I love Ted Dekker too!
I haven’t read a lot of Ted Dekker before and I would have to say that Immanuel’s Veins was the best book that I didn’t like.
The writing is really quite superb: descriptive language, active plot, interesting characters all worked together. It was just all the lust, blood, and even more blood that just smothered me.
I wrote a review of this book on my own blog at www.tracysbooknook.com
-Tracy
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