{"id":716,"date":"2010-05-15T10:18:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T17:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/?p=716"},"modified":"2010-05-15T10:18:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T17:18:53","slug":"may-2010-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/2010\/may-2010-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2010 Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early yesterday morning I sent out our May 2010 newsletter. As usual, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\">get it via email<\/a> from our home page.<\/p>\n<div class=\"section-header\">CONTENTS<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>New CD from Sharon Singers\n<li>New Books\n<li>Recipe\n<li>Discounted Preschool ABC Series\n<li>Tidbits\n<li>In Closing\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"section-header\">NEW CD FROM SHARON SINGERS<\/div>\n<p>Sharon Singers 2009 presents &#8220;Who Is Like Jehovah?&#8221; &#8212; a choral a cappella collection of 23 hymns and songs:<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent30\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/catalog\/titles\/m-smbi.shtml\">Sharon Singers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But you might be able to get a free one at the end of the month. How? By being a Like-r of our Facebook page:<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent30\"><a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/pages\/Anabaptist-Bookstore\/139507626434\">Anabaptist Bookstore on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"section-header\">NEW BOOKS<\/div>\n<p>Five of them, to be exact; three from Christian Light Publications and two from TGS International:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Celestial Railroad<\/em>\n<li><em>The Christian and the State<\/em>\n<li><em>Eternal Security<\/em>\n<li><em>My Father&#8217;s World<\/em>\n<li><em>A Heart to Belong<\/em><\/ul>\n<p class=\"indent30\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/catalog\/newbooks.html\">New Books at Anabaptist Bookstore<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"section-header\">RECIPE<\/div>\n<p>Empanadas (Mexican Turnovers) from <i>Heart and Hearth<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent30\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/2010\/empanadas-mexican-turnovers\/\">Empanadas Recipe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I grew up in Mexico and also served there as a missionary later. I like empanadas (em-pa-<b>na<\/b>-thas) very much.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish pronunciation tips: their <i>e<\/i> sounds like our <i>e<\/i> in <i>bet<\/i> and their <i>a<\/i> sounds quite a bit like our <i>a<\/i> in <i>father<\/i>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"section-header\">DISCOUNTED PRESCHOOL ABC SERIES<\/div>\n<p>From the beginning of Anabaptist Bookstore, I&#8217;ve made it easy to order multiple items (on the same page) with a single click. That would be as opposed to clicking an &#8220;Add to Cart&#8221; or &#8220;Buy It Now&#8221; button next to each item.<\/p>\n<p>Well, recently a customer wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Ordering is cumbersome since all items are listed in one long list; if you order something at the top of the list, you have to scroll all the way down to the bottom to order.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve been working on addressing the issue without giving up the ease of ordering multiple items with one click.<\/p>\n<p>To see the solution I&#8217;ve come up with&#8230;and to learn about a temporary 10% discount on Rod and Staff&#8217;s Preschool ABC Series&#8230;visit our business Facebook page and click the <i>Discussions<\/i> tab:<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent30\"><a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/pages\/Anabaptist-Bookstore\/139507626434\">Anabaptist Bookstore FB Page<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"section-header\">TIDBITS<\/div>\n<p>Did you know that Anabaptist Bookstore is a small home business which I launched in 1998 to help support our family and my original Web site (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptists.org\">http:\/\/www.anabaptists.org<\/a>)? Each dollar you spend at our business generates about 15 cents in profit. Thank you for each dollar you spend here!<\/p>\n<p>If you want between-newsletter-releases updates, we provide those via blog, Twitter, and Facebook. I put the links to each of those after my sign-off below.<\/p>\n<p>As you likely know, Rod and Staff Publishers has a 5% discount going on their curriculum. Though we aren&#8217;t matching that, we <b>do<\/b> offer our usual year-round reduced shipping rates.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re ready to purchase curriculum from Christian Light Education, please enter their site through ours. And a special thanks to all of you who have supported us by doing so!<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent30\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clpcle.com\">Christian Light Education<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just in case you forgot, we have some used stuff as well as some shipping-damaged items &#8212; CLE LightUnits, Rod &#038; Staff curriculum, storybooks, &#8220;regular&#8221; books:<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent30\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/used\/\">Used &amp; Damaged Books<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"section-header\">IN CLOSING<\/div>\n<p class=\"indent30\"><span class=\"verse\">&#8220;From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If I don&#8217;t walk humbly with other Christians, I cannot walk humbly with God. Can I? I mean, if I&#8217;m walking with two people, can I possibly be fully clothed in the presence of one but utterly naked in the presence of the other?<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent30\"><span class=\"verse\">&#8220;Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Oh, God, give me the humbleness of mind to not be that way!<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent30\"><span class=\"verse\">&#8220;Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>My rendition: &#8220;You ask but do not receive because you do not ask humbly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And you&#8217;ll find the rest of this in my blog post titled &#8220;I Want to Be Humble&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent30\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=605\">Panting Hart<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"section-header\">SUBSCRIBER INFORMATION<\/div>\n<p>I send this newsletter only to people who WANT it. (If you want to forward it to a friend &#8212; well, that&#8217;s up to you. It&#8217;s certainly fine with me.)<\/p>\n<p>To subscribe, simply send a blank email to<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent30\"><a href=\"mailto:abonews-subscribe@yahoogroups.com\">abonews-subscribe@yahoogroups.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your help and support!<\/p>\n<p>Mark Roth<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent30\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\">http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"indent30\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rodstaff.com\">http:\/\/www.rodstaff.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"indent30\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clpcle.com\">http:\/\/www.clpcle.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anabaptist Bookstore, socially<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent30\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/anabaptistbooks\/\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"indent30\"><a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/pages\/Anabaptist-Bookstore\/139507626434\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"indent30\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/\">Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early yesterday morning I sent out our May 2010 newsletter. 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