Reflective Beauty: A different sort of publisher

Saturday, October 13, 2007

A different sort of publisher

I came across a new publishing company called Marcher Lord Press from a link on Bryan Davis' blog. Their purpose is to publish Christian speculative fiction (fantasy, science fiction, time travel, ect.), the books that are intriguing and well-written and lie outside the boundaries of normal Christian-bookstore fluff. Well, they don't call it fluff. But it's for those who like to read things other than romantic historical fiction. I'm excited to see what they'll release first! And I'll have to remember this publisher when I finish a certain manuscript...

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Jefferson Scott9:19 AM
Thanks for posting about Marcher Lord Press, Lady Rael.

I invite you and your readers to visit the site: www.MarcherLordPress.com. There, you can register for the amazing prizes we'll be giving away at the launch event next October. Every time someone registers for the drawing and names YOU as his or her referrer, YOUR name gets added to the drawing another time.

So everybody get out there and refer people! The grand prize is TBD, but I've already received prizes or promises of prizes worth over $500.

I think you and your readers will also be interested to visit my other site dedicated to Christian speculative fiction: www.WhereTheMapEnds.com.

Thanks again!

Jeff Gerke
Publisher
Marcher Lord Press
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To the One I want to reflect...

You are the sun
shining down on everyone,
light of the world
giving light to everything I see
beauty so brilliant
I can hardly take it in
and everywhere You are
is warmth and light

And I am the moon
with no light of my own
still You have made me
to shine
and as I glow
in this cold dark night
I know I can't be a light
unless I turn my face to You

Shine on me with Your light
Without You I'm a cold dark stone
Shine on me
I have no light of my own
You are the sun,
You are the sun,
You are the sun
And I am the moon

~Sara Groves~

Quotes on Happiness

We are halfhearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
~C. S. Lewis~

God threatens terrible things if we will not be happy.
~Jeremy Taylor~

God is the one Being in all the universe for whom seeking His own praise is the ultimately loving act. For Him, self-exaltation is the highest virtue. When He does all things "for the praise of His glory," He preserves for us and offers to us the only thing in all the world that can satisfy our longings. God is for us! And the foundation of this love is that God has been, is now, and always will be for Himself.
~John Piper~

"At the end of things, The Blessed will say, “We have never lived anywhere except in Heaven.” And the lost will say, “We were always in Hell.” And both will speak truly."
~ C.S. Lewis ~

"Who is my neighbor?"

"I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is the duty of any private person to fix his mind on ills which he cannot help. This may even become an escape from the works of charity we really can do to those we know. God may call any one of us to respond to some far away problem or support those who have been so called. But we are finite and he will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us."
~ C. S. Lewis ~

Beauty vs. Attractiveness

Christians reading these reports must remember that beauty and attractiveness are not the same thing. Beauty, according to the Christian worldview, is established by God himself, and is inseparable from truth and goodness. Attractiveness is the mere delight of the eyes. In a sinful world, our eyes delight in many wrong things, and many of the most beautiful realities are, to the mere eyes, unattractive.

After all, we follow our Savior who “had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.” [Isaiah 53:2]. The cross is not pretty, but it is beautiful. This is the ironic foundation of a Christian understanding of beauty. We cannot merely trust our eyes, for our eyes will lie to us, and we are to find beauty in truth.

Albert Mohler