James Garlow - The Blood Covenant: The Story of Gods Extraordinary Love for You

Copyright 1999, 2007, 2013
by James Garlow, Robin Miles Price, and Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City
First edition 1999
Second edition 2007
Third edition 2013

2013 eISBN 978-0-8341-3109-5

Printed in the
United States of America

Originally published as The Covenant and later as
The Covenant: A Study of Gods Extraordinary Love for You

Cover Design: Ryan Deo
Interior Design: Sharon Page

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From Jim Garlow:

This book is lovingly dedicated to the one who has so graciously and unselfishly shared the marriage covenant with me from January 30, 1971, until I placed her in the arms of God on April 21, 2013, at 12:50 p.m.my wife, friend, lover, confidante, and covenant partnerCarol.

From Rob Price:

This book is dedicated to Sharon, my covenant partner in marriage, who has demonstrated unfailing love to me since our wedding day on August 3, 1991. Without her quiet wisdom and constant encouragement my contributions to this book would have remained just a dream.

JAMES L. GARLOW is an author, communicator, commentator, historian, cultural observer, and senior pastor of Skyline Wesleyan Church in San Diego. He is heard daily on over eight hundred radio outlets nationwide in his one-minute historical commentary called The Garlow Perspective. Jim has appeared on numerous national TV shows on NBC, ABC, CNN, Fox, MSNBC, CNBC, and Comedy Central.

Garlow has done over one thousand radio, TV, and print interviewsnational and localcovering a wide range of topics: historical and theological subjects, political matters, religious liberty, marriage and family issues, and cultural trends.

In 2010, Garlowwhile continuing as a San Diego pastorwas appointed by former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich to be the chairman of ReAL (Renewing American Leadership), based in DC, along with a sister organization ReAL Action.

During Californias Proposition 8 (defense of marriage) battle, he founded and led the California Pastors Rapid Response Team, a group of networked pastors committed to the sacredness of life and the sanctity of marriage.

Since 2011, Garlow has served as the national chairman of Pulpit Initiative, which spearheads the yearly Pulpit Freedom Sundaya movement involving pastors across Americain conjunction with the Alliance Defending Freedom, an alliance of 2,200 attorneys focused on religious freedom issues.

He graduated from Drew University (PhD in historical theology), Princeton Theological Seminary (Master of Theology), Asbury Theological Seminary (MDiv), Southern Nazarene University (BA and MA), and Oklahoma Wesleyan University (AA).

His coauthored the book Cracking Da Vincis Code, which made the New York Times Best Sellers list. A related book, The Da Vinci CodeBreaker, a dictionary with over five hundred key Da Vinci Code related terms, went on to become a best seller. The Secret Revealed, an expose on the New Age The Secret, was released in July 2007.

He coauthored Heaven and the Afterlife in 2009, which was followed by the 2010 release of Encountering Heaven and the Afterlife and in 2011, Miracles Are for Real, and then in 2012, Real Life Real Miracles, all four published by Bethany House, The Baker Group.

Other books include How God Saved Civilization (rereleased as God and His People), A Christians Response to Islam, The Covenant, Partners in Ministry, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Tested by Time, and God Still Heals. Jims books have been translated into nearly a dozen languages.

Jims wife, Carol, is a graduate of Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. She serves as minister of prayer and intercession at Skyline Wesleyan Church. Jim and Carol have four children and five grandsons.

For more information, see www.jimgarlow.com.

ROB PRICE serves as a faculty member in the Communication Arts Department at Southwestern Assemblies of God University (SAGU) in Waxahachie, Texas. He teaches various digital media courses in TV/film. Under his leadership as executive producer, student films at SAGU have won numerous awards at film festivals around the nation.

He has also worked in pastoral ministry at Lakeview Church in Indianapolis, where he served as evangelism outreach and media outreach pastor for seven years from 1999 to 2006.

He also traveled around the world as a television reporter/producer for the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN). His educational degrees include a bachelors degree in broadcasting/journalism from Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri, and a masters degree in TV/film from Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He serves on the faculty council for the iNRB (Intercollegiate National Religious Broadcasters).

He has written several film screenplays and authored the historical novel Blood Brother in 2010, based on the biblical characters David, Jonathan, and Mephibosheth.

Robs wife, Sharon, has a doctorate in business administration from Anderson University in Anderson, Indiana, and is also a certified public accountant (CPA) in Texas. She is a faculty member at SAGU in the Business Department.

Rob and Sharon have four children. They reside in Midlothian, Texas.

OLIVIA TAYLOR of Audrant Studios in San Diego produced the illustrations and artwork.

From Jim Garlow:

My sincere thanks to the following individuals:

My father, Burtis Garlow (1915-98), who by both word and example lived the covenant and who encouraged me to write.

My mother, Winifred Garlow, who also lived the covenant and who painstakingly typed my dictations and illegible scribbles for the first edition of this book in 1999.

I express heartfelt thanks also to the following persons, who each taught me a piece of the covenant:

Milton Green of In the Word Ministries, who called himself a Southern Baptist carpet cleaner from Cleveland, Tennessee and came to Dallas and touched us all.

Mike Haley, who wrote an article on the covenant for Fulness