Last week was one of the best weeks we have had since opening. Thanks again for all your support. Our Christmas stock of Bibles,books, gifts and cards has started to arrive and we are planning several late night openings in the shop in the run up to Christmas with a special evening planned for Fri 22nd October. Details will follow.
Following last weeks blog we are having a bible promotion this week and next and have on offer an NKJV Holy Bible at £0.99 plus p&p Other offers include the ESV edition of Matthew, Mark and Luke at £0.79 plus p&p; also available is an NIV Bible in one year at £12.99 plus p&p and the International Childrens Bible at £13.99 plus p&p. We trust that you will find these to be value for money.
Once again thanks for your support and if you are around Comber please call and enjoy a quiet relaxing coffee at 57-59 Castle Street.
Pam and Ian
Francine Rivers - Her Daughters Dream
As our website gets up and running we are starting to put some offers on the site.
This week we have the new Francine Rivers novel ‘Her Daughter’s Dream’ at £8.49 and also the Karen Kingsbury novel ‘Take Four’ at £7.99. Next week we will have a selection of Bibles on offer for you.
Karen Kingsbury - Take Four
Our thanks is extended to all who have taken the time to comment on our blog or the site in general.I thought getting the physical shop up and going was hard but setting up a virtual shop is even more complex.
Please continue to include us in your prayers.
Ian and Pam
As promised our discussion forum this week is on evolution vs creation. Can you be a Christian and believe in evolution. Where does Natural Selection fit into the picture. Did God create the world or did big bang happen. Does a belief in evolution put the integrity of the Bible at risk .
Some people argue that if you do not implicitly believe in the Genesis story in which evolution plays no part then how do we believe in the Gospels. There are plenty of people out there who think that ‘big bang’ and evolution plus natural selection explains the rest. There is also a large group of Christian scientists out there who believe that creation happened and that God uses evolution as a too. We are going to try and remain neutral in all these debates. There are many important issues for us all and sometimes it is difficult for people to get their views aired.This is your opportunity.
There are many books and dvds on the subject and this can be an excellent subject for seminars and also small group discussion.
Please feel free to post your comments and also to find out what other people think.
Our shop and website have now been open for 3 weeks. Time flies when you
are enjoying yourself. The coffee shop is flying and a good selection of
books and gifts are being sold. Watch out for the new Francine Rivers book
in September ( available in store or on our bookstore website ).
Also coming up in the autumn will be our promotion aimed at church congregations and that
will be to read the Bible in a year. Many people in our own congregation
took this on last year and have thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
You never know what a day brings and one of our regular ( we are very
blessed in people who are coming back time after time) customers told me
this morning that her husband is dying at a young age from a Genetic
disorder. Worse is the possibility that their sons and grandsons may have
inherited the disease. We have added Heather and family to our prayer list
and would ask you to remember them in your prayers.
Next week we will kick of our debate and discussion forum with a
discussion and poll on Creation and evolution.We are looking forward to
hearing your views and opinions.
Pam & Ian
Hello everyone, welcome to our first blog!
Well we have done it! By that I mean we have opened our new Christian bookstore and coffee house in Comber last week.
Revive Bookstore and Coffee Shop
Thanks to all for the support we have received since opening. Someone said to me this morning that if God had chosen us to do this then we didn’t need to worry about management issues, we simply needed to be on hand to do as guided. No doubt those with business degrees will be appalled by this but we got very clear guidance on where to open and when we tried to look elsewhere our path was blocked. We set off with an idea of how the shop should look and ended up with something completely different which everyone seems to really enjoy. Everyone we have asked for help has been more than helpful.
We have launched our website http://www.revivebooks.com and part of this is to get Christians and non-Christians to participate in active debates on various issues. We have even decided to have a poll available on these issues so that we can give feedback to you on what the general opinion is.
Once again thanks to everyone who has supported us and please keep us in your prayers.
Ian
