Power In The Blood

[The Rev]

Vampire Chronicles' Author Discovers There's Real 'Power In the Blood'
Catholic Writer Anne Rice Turns Over New Leaf With Novel About Christ
By Ed Thomas
January 27, 2006

(AgapePress) - Author Ann Rice, known for her Interview With a Vampire and several other novels about the supernatural and vampires, is now speaking about her transition to writing for Christ and about religion and faith.
Rice says she is pleased that media reporters have allowed her to achieve her primary objective during her many interviews over last fall's release of Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt. In a recent media interview, she noted, "I've been given an opportunity to say that I made a conversion that I went back to the Church and that I dedicated life to Christ."

Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt is a fictionalized personal account of a seven-year-old Jesus' life, based on the gospels but "in his own words." The book represents a complete return for Rice to her Catholic faith and personal belief in God after a seven-year journey and much tragedy. Rice says she has turned over a new leaf with this new novel, and she told Newsweek last fall that she has now promised to write only for the Lord.
Among the experiences that shook the author's existence in recent years are two illnesses and the death of her husband. Speaking on Fox News with Bill O'Reilly, Rice pointed out that her spiritual despair and searching were weaved into her Vampire Chronicles books (The Vampire Lestat, Interview With a Vampire, etc.). "They were always pretty fervently religious," she noted.
"They may have been negative, they may have been dark," Rice adds, "and they may have had a lot of misery in them and anxiety. But they were always about God and, always, a conversation was going on about religion in them."
The Catholic novelist hopes Christ the Lord will have a genuine spiritual impact on her readers. "I want this book to make Jesus real to people," she says, including "maybe people who have never thought about Him or people who just don't take Him seriously." In this book, the writer adds, "I've tried to create a probable reality -- the way it might have been with the holy family day in, day out."
Rice says she is pleasantly surprised that fans of her fantasy fiction are following her into her new writing genre of religious fiction and is planning several sequels to Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt. The novel about the young Jesus is currently at number 11 on the New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list

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Yes sir Rev, there is power in the blood, wonder working power..I pray that she has got under the Blood but her last paragraph scares me.

Rice says she is pleasantly surprised that fans of her fantasy fiction are following her into her new writing genre of religious fiction and is planning several sequels to Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt. The novel about the young Jesus is currently at number 11 on the New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list

if you are truly under the blood you don't have to write fiction about Jesus, you can write the real deal..what do you think about it?

[Rebel Hog]

There Is Power in the Blood

Text Based On 1 Peter Chapter 1
But with the precious blood of Christ,
as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
Power In The Blood
Would you be free from the burden of sin?
There's pow'r in the blood, pow'r in the blood;
Would you o'er evil a victory win?
There's wonderful power in the blood.
Refrain
There is pow'r, pow'r, wonder working pow'r
In the blood of the Lamb;
There is pow'r, pow'r, wonder working pow'r
In the precious blood of the Lamb.

Would you be free from your passion and pride?
There's pow'r in the blood, pow'r in the blood;
Come for a cleansing to Calvary's tide?
There's wonderful power in the blood.
Refrain

Would you do service for Jesus your King?
There's pow'r in His blood, pow'r in His blood;
Would you live daily His praises to sing?
There's wonderful power in His blood.
Refrain