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    Get Ready! Get Set!
    Get Ready! Get Set!
    Get Ready! Get Set!
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    Get Ready! Get Set!

    By Stephen Bly

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    How to evaluate the effectiveness of a ministry from the parable of the soils. Take the soils prep test. Study the types of soil and which one best fits you. Six steps for personal action. A Get Set all night Prayer Guide. How Jesus picked His disciples. Examples from those who followed Jesus. They spent time with him. They went out and preached. They had power over Satan. What following Jesus includes. The three most effective planners in Scripture. A Spiritual Planner for you. Suggestions for digging deeper into Mark 3 and Mark 4 while interacting with Jesus.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBly Books
    Release dateApr 5, 2015
    ISBN9781311757029
    Get Ready! Get Set!
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    Stephen Bly

    Stephen Bly (1944-2011) authored and co-authored with his wife, Janet Chester Bly, more than 100 books, both historical and contemporary fiction and nonfiction. He won the Christy Award in the category western novel for The Long Trail Home, from The Fortunes of the Black Hills Series. Other novels were Christy Award finalists: The Outlaw's Twin Sister, Picture Rock, and Last of the Texas Camp. His last novel, Stuart Brannon's Final Shot, finished with the help of his widow, Janet Chester Bly, and three sons--Russell, Michael, and Aaron--was a SELAH Award finalist. She just completed her first solo adult Indie novel, Wind in the Wires, Book 1, Trails of Reba Cahill.

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      Get Ready! Get Set! - Stephen Bly

      Get Ready! Get Set!

      Following Jesus Series

      Stephen Bly

      Copyright©2015 by Janet Chester Bly

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      Get Ready!

      "And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear,

      let him hear."

      Mark 4:9 KJV

      Growing up as a California farm boy allowed me the opportunity to learn firsthand a rural philosophy. My grandpa once told me, Stevie, don’t ever buy a vineyard in May or a walnut grove in January.

      Good advice.

      May grape vineyards sprout fresh green leaves that completely cover the woody, gnarled trunk. Long green runners cascade out from the center of the vine as harmoniously as if placed there by a florist’s wise decision. Every vineyard alive at all looks best in May.

      By October the bright, shiny, waxy green leaves turn hard and dingy, coated with dirt, attacked by leaf-hoppers, covered with sulphur dust to keep the mildew off the fruit. Lift up tired looking vines and swarms of gnats hide from the hot glare of the sun. But also tucked away under the foliage will be bunches of fat, ripe, juicy, tasty grapes. Always buy a vineyard after you’ve inspected it in October.

      Same with following Jesus.

      Effectiveness of ministry must be evaluated at harvest time. Some

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