Free e-book available!

My theology book

Let's Get Down to Basics—

An Introduction to Christian Living"

The ebook is now available

free!

 by download to your computer as a .pdf, epub. or mobi file. If you would like to try it, go to

 http://www2.xlibris.com/bookstub

and enter the code

1230000285941

Then just follow directions. You can save it to your computer to read and share with anyone who would appreciate it or share this information so they can retrieve it for themselves.

If you like it but would prefer a real book you can buy it at  Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com or xlibris.com at  http://bookstore.xlibris.com/Products/SKU-000969874/Let'sGetDowntoBasics.aspx 

Or if you would like it as an ebook for Kindle, Nook or some other type it is available at all three of these online bookstores for less than $4 ea.

I would also appreciate it if you would go to any of these online stores and do a review of the book.

The 1991 paperback edition is still available from me for $5 postpaid. Just personal message me on Facebook on place a comment to this post. 

Thank you!

Rick

The Autumn Song

By Rick Blumenberg / @RickBlumenberg

Walking along Tanner Creek with Carol we took this picture to show you what a special place we live in. My blog for today is a song-poem I wrote years ago and sing often at this time of year. I call it The Autumn Song and this view of Tanner Creek reminded me to sing it again. I hope you enjoy

“The Autumn Song”.

Summer has its happy times

      and winter has it joys.

            Spring is like a melody in rhyme.

When I think of all the seasons

      that I’ve known since just a boy

            Autumn is that very special times.

So when I see the wild geese

      flyin’ overhead

            And feel the snap of Jack Frost in the air.

And I hear the band a playin’

      at the high school football game

            I know that it's time for county fair.

Chorus:

So When the Autumn comes

      and leaves are falling down

            I remember scenes of long ago.

Skippin’ through the fallen leaves

      upon the frosty ground

            Laughing down the lane to school we’d go.

I thank God for the colors

      and I thank him for the smells—

            Even smells of smoke from burning leaves.

But every day and every way

      I thank God for the earth

            And beauty He created with the trees.

I thank the Lord for falling leaves

      and autumn days of yore.

            I thank him even more for autumns now.

I thank him for the people

      that he’s sent to bless my life--

            Who love and serve him well and teach me how.

I'm Rick Blumenberg and that's 
                                  My View from Tanner Creek.
   

Mary Jo Tomasini, Congratulations on Living Life Well

Here is a “Linked In” congratulatory note I sent to Mary Jo Tomasini on the occasion of the 21^st anniversary of her company.

“Congratulations Mary Jo on your great success at making Competitive Edge such a blessing to the business world, the community, and the families of your employees! There are many kinds of people in the world, but two very special types are job makers and job takers. There is nothing wrong with being a job taker; we all need employment for income, self satisfaction and self worth and of course employers need workers all the way from professional level to entry level in order to do the tasks that need to be done so businesses can succeed. However (and this is where you come in, Mary Jo) there would be few jobs if it weren't for people like you who have the initiative, skill and insight to begin and run a business and thus create jobs for those who want to work.

So I really do congratulate you, not just on your 21 year anniversary, but that you have lived those 21 years so well and have been such a blessing to so many people.

I also congratulate you on marrying such a great guy and bringing Fred to our community!”

I hasten to add, however, that Mary Jo is only one of many entrepreneurs and business persons who have the courage and initiative to start a business or grow a business that takes on a life of its own under their leadership. Others are able to take a struggling business and turn it into a successful enterprise or take a thriving business and make it even better.

I’m a churchman, and gladly so, but I am often exasperated when the church appears to only appreciate the openly spiritual people who are up front and helpful in preaching, singing, teaching and other obviously spiritual tasks. Nothing wrong with that, but we all too seldom give attention to those business leaders and workers who take a Christ-like spirit and Christ-like morals into the marketplace and quietly live their lives of quiet inspiration. (Note I didn’t say desperation, but inspiration.) They thus show by their values and hard work what it is like to be a genuinely Christ-like person in the midst of many who don’t know Christ and would never come to know him without the day-to-day witness of their co-workers.

So congratulations Mary Jo, and all the rest of you who take Christ to the marketplace. Through your efforts to be Christ-like in your everyday lives you show the world just how awesome He really is.

I'm Rick Blumenberg and that's "My View from Tanner Creek".

     

Basics now Available online

“Basics” now Available on

Amazon

Barnes and Noble

Let’s Get Down to Basics is a simple but thorough introduction to Christian theology for those who are not from a Christian background. It is written for the lay person, not as a scholarly work.

It is also a book for new Christians who want a solid beginning for a lifetime commitment to Christ, as well as for mature Christians who want to review some basic teachings of the Christian faith.

Written originally as church curriculum in a class for new Christians and for those new to the church, Let’s Get Down to Basics is recommended for that purpose.

This is a new version in larger type with105 pages. The official price is $14.49 for paperback, ebook Kindle is $3.99 and Nook is $3.49

If you would like the book at a lower price I still have the original version (in much smaller type) for $5.00 including postage. Good for SS class or small group study.