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Interact with Donald James Parker
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Last On: Nov 15, 2009 - 7:54 PM
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June 22, 2007
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Madison, SD
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shoutlife.com/DonaldJamesParker
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Website:
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www.donaldjamesparker.com?SL
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General Fiction
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Outskirts Press
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Jesus, Solomon, Matthew, James, Mark, John, Luke, Moses, Grace Livingstone Hill, Benjamin Franklin
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Sports/working out/biking/choir/drama.
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crooners - Gene Pitney, Bobby Vinton, Bobby Rydell, Brian Hyland, Harry Belafonte and Nat King Cole
Oldies Soft Rock Hermans Hermits, Buckinghams, Turtles.
Folk Music: New Christy Minstrels, Brothers Four, Peter Paul and Mary, and Kingston Trio,
Contemporary and 70's Christian Petra, For Him, Point of Grace, Avalon, Michael Card, Zoe Girl. Glad, B.J. Thomas, Scott Wesley Brown, Communion, Jaci Velazquez, Jump Five, Rachel Lampa
Classical
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Love Christian romance stuff (Grace Livingston Hill, Janette Oke, Thoene family)
Historical fiction (Leon Uris, Herman Wouk, Howard Fast)
Classic swashbuckers like Scarlet Pimpernel, Tale of Two Cities, Scaramouche.
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Hallmark movies. Nicholas Sparks movies. Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof, Sleepless in Seattle. The Disney romances.
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Love Waits (2009)
Cheri is an innocent fourteen-year-old raised in a small town in Nebraska. Her father lands a promotion, demoting her to a status of 'nobody' in a much larger and inhospitable city. One of the few people she connects with in her new school spills the beans that Cheri is still a virgin. Some of her cool schoolmates exert pressure on her to unbuckle the chastity belt. Faced with the loneliness of the new environment and coupled with relationship problems with her father, Cheri finds the temptation growing strong. When her father recruits a sixty-something babysitter, she is ready to rebel. However, she finds that Jean Macalester is no ordinary woman. Jean's womanly wisdom, background as a flute teacher, and love of God provide a counterweight to the peer pressure of Judy Green, the girl who goes on a crusade to convert Cheri to modern morality. When Cheri and Duke Williams, Cheri's new crush, discover the church youth group plans a chastity pledge, they have to decide whether to join or fly solo.
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All the Fury of the Wind (2008)
Book 5 of the Masterson Family Series - Maria Masterson and Jeremy Dillon are loving, innocent kids whose world is about to be altered drastically. Their decision to engage the culture they live in and battle for truth in the debate concerning the creation of the Universe and mankind, leads them into conflicts in which their adversaries do not always fight by Queensberry rules. A reminder that Christians are to overcome evil with good halts them in their tracks in an attempt to fight back with similar methods. Their only weapon is the Sword of the Spirit of Truth. Their dexterity in the use of this weapon increases as the two are pulled into a battle that they can't win in their own power. This novel exposes some real life dangers that pose a risk to the most innocent among us. Lessons in dealing with adversity, whether common relationship issues, lifestyle choices, or physical and emotional intimidation, abound. This book is fiction but could serve as a primer on how to stand tall in a world that wants any person of faith in their Creator to lay low. Readers will be encouraged to know that they do not stand alone, and there is hope for a happy ending. This book presents intellectual and moral handholds and toeholds for those who are not afraid to do some spiritual rock climbing. For those who were not aware of the state of the universe, a whole new world will open up.
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All the Stillness of the Wind (2008)
Book 4 of the Masterson Family Series
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Angels of Interstate 29 (2008)
A senior citizen love story.
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More Than Dust in the Wind (2008)
Book 2 of the Masterson Family Series. Bambi is introduced to the theory of evolution.
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Reforming the Potter's Clay (2008)
A brawl between magick and the Holy Spirit.
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The Bulldog Compact (2008)
A story of puppy love and basketball.
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All the Voices of the Wind (2007)
I have created a new genre with this work, perhaps. I call it Christian faction. It is a novel which combines romance and humor with a cerebral search for truth. It does not pull any punches. It names real people on both sides of the Evolution debate and combines most of the intelligent design/creationism arguments in one central location. This book is not for those who are not prepared for an intellectual challenge or a spiritual gutcheck.
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About Donald James Parker
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Don is a 1968 graduate of Madison Central High School in Madison, South Dakota. He graduated from Dakota State University in Madison in 1972 with a degree in secondary education. After moving to Washington State in 1981, Don studied computer programming and turned his writing efforts to software. After twenty-five of IT work, Don's passion for writing flared up again, and the doctors couldn't do anything to cure it. The outcome is a five book series involving two generations of the Masterson family. If demand warrants, the series will expand as the future unfolds. In addition I've just finished an anti-Harry Potter book and a story starring 70-year-olds in an adventurous romantic comedy. I'm currently working on a book dealing with the sexual revolution and another dealing with homeless people.
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Social Networks - Are They a Blackhole to Christia
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9/28/2009 - 7:08 PM
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One of the first things a neophyte writer learns after celebrating the publication of his or her first book is that the bulk of the marketing responsibility falls on the author. The second object lesson absorbed is that marketing is much harder than ...
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Article on Self Publishing- Christian Fiction Mag.
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9/01/2009 - 8:38 PM
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Here's an article I wrote on self-publishing in the Christian world.
http://christianfictiononlinemagazine.com/biz_pod.html
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- Most Recent Reply: 09/01/09 - 8:54 PM
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Review of Sifting Through the Ashes by Cherie Hill
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6/29/2009 - 8:25 AM
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(Cherie is a fellow Shoutlifer!)
Cherie Hill is an author with a tangible passion. She exudes the flame of caring, concern, and love in her writing. Sifting Through the Ashes caused me to sift through my defense mechanisms and seek those which I ...
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Christian Pulse Give Away - 22 free books in June
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6/02/2009 - 8:21 AM
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Every business day during the month of June one of the following books will be reviewed and given away to a lucky winner. To register for the drawing you must register each day. Check out details at www.TheChristianPulse.com
The Great Escap...
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First review for Love Waits
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5/19/2009 - 9:22 AM
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Ever publish a book in a void - just threw it out to the world and waited for someone to say something about it? Well, that's what I just did. I had a couple weeks of nervous silence before my first feedback. First my pastor finished it and said it...
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Top Friends (1,946 total)
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Recent Guestbook Comments (17)
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Hi Don,
Hope things are going well for you. Have a great weekend and an even greater Thanksgiving....
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What a shame, but tomorrow's another day and she may be back. Have a blessed day my friend. :)
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Hi Don,
How did your visit go? Hope it went well...
Have a great weekend...
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Hi Donald,
I'm praying that you will have a wonderful weekend.
Blessings always,
Ray
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Hi Don,
That should be a great visit. Have a great week my friend....
Blue Skies....
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Don,
Have a great weekend my friend...
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Sometimes I have that same problem Don. So, in repeat of last time, Have a great weekend my friend. Hope it is filled with many blessings...
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Have a great weekend Don....
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Thanks Don.... :)
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Hi Donald,
I pray you have a great weekend my friend....
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LORI on 9/21/09 - 8:29 AM
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Yes Donald... read my first blog post and it will explain things... Hope you have a glorious weekend.... Blue Skies....
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SENDING LOVE YOUR WAY AND PRAYING ALL IS WELL WITH YOU!
The greatest of all our gifts is love. Without love we are merely sounding cymbals. Clanging gongs! See 1 Corinthians 13:13. Love is the greatest force in heaven and in earth. Because God is love and has shed abroad in the believer's heart the love that exist in His very own heart. It is by the exercise of this love that we defeat all the evil of this world and its master. As we love God, our Father, as Christ does. And love others as we love ourselves, we become winners; undefeatable spiritual warriors.
Spiritual warfare is a necessary reality in the life of all the redeemed in Christ. satan has been for sure defeated by Jesus' sacrifice. But, at the present time neither he nor the whole passel of his cronies are silent and inactive. Therefore, if it is written in God's word pursue it with the very passion of heaven until the promised results are established. You have been given the greatest gift that heaven has to offer, which is the very Spirit of Love. Through Christ God defected satan and forever sealed his doom. Then He graciously invited all who will, to sit with Christ in the heavenly places and share in that victory. See Ephesians 1:20; 2:6; 3:10.
When this is the stance of our life, we move into the fullness of who we have become in Jesus. This love is the very same love by which He fulfilled the law and the prophets. See Matthew 7:12; 22:40, Galatians 5:14, Romans 13:18; 10:4, Act 3:18 Luke 22:37. And then set us free to be as He is in this world. 1 John 4:17. It is this restoration of who God created us to be that satan fears and is so adamantly opposed to. In this place no weapon he forms or anything he says against us can prosper, because God Himself will condemn him. Isaiah 54:17. Why is this so? It is so because when we fail to exercise the use of God's greater power and authority over him, he is enabled to use his greatest power against us. Remember satan is a defeated foe whom God has given us authority over all of his power. Luke 10:19. However, we must take our place in His kingdom and live out this promise.
Satans greatest weapon against the child of God is to convince us that he has more power than we do in Christ. Or we could say more power than Christ in us. While satan and all his minions are thoroughly and eternally defeated they fight on. And you and I are the targets of their arrows of evil intentions. Therefore, just as these principalities and powers of evil fight for his kingdom to rule; we must fight for the kingdom of our God to rule here as it does in heaven. We accomplish this by way of our becoming spiritual godly lights in the darkness of this world. Lights set a blaze by the Spirit of God, which neither man nor demon can extinguish. Satan is defeated but far from inactive. God's people are winners, but far from living out the full reality of our victory in Christ. If you as a victorious conqueror (and this is who God says you are) fail to go forth and conquer evil in the authority of Jesus name; satan will still hold you captive to destruction and defeat. See Romans 8:37. Never forget that winners actively pursue the prize set before them. Until at last they possess all of the benefits of that prize.
Go now and knock down those walls that stand between you and all the benefits of your redemption in Christ. It is written: As Jesus is so are you in this world. We are the throbbing pain in satan's evil heart. When we live up to whom God created and calls us to be. We are actually not enlisted to defeat satan. Christ did that. We are to take our place as lights through which Jesus shines as He Himself dispels the darkness of evil which fills this world. It is Jesus who enforces and ensures our victory and satan's defeat. Copyright © Sylvia F. Liani 2009
May all that is allowed in heaven fill your life each day. And may all that is not allowed there be forbidden in your life. See Matthew 16:19; 18:19.
Love big, stay strong in the Lord and let the power of His might forever be your stronghold of safety.
NEW BLOG TO FILL YOU IN ON MY ABSENCE
Big affectionate hugs,
Sylvia xoxoxo
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