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February 3, 2015
Spotlight: Love On the Mend by Karen Witemeyer
LOVE ON THE MEND
by Karen Witemeyer
After serving as a doctor during the War Between the States, Jacob Sadler wants nothing more than to establish a quiet country practice in rural Texas. But he knows he’ll never find peace until he buries the pain of his past. To that end, he accepts a job in Cold Spring, Texas–the town he’s avoided for seventeen years–and discovers his past is definitely still alive and kicking.
When a new doctor arrives in town and saves her brother’s leg, Mollie Tate quickly...
Alphabet Thanks: L through Z
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Continuing through my alphabet of thanksgiving:
TheLove of my husband.
Music.
Notebooks for scribbling down my thoughts.
Oh! Such a simple word that can mean so many things.
Prayer.
Quick thinking (and that I can still do it).
Reading.
Spaghetti.
MyTreadmill and the ability to walk on it daily.
TheUnchangeableness of God’s purpose.
Victory in Christ.
Wishes and dreams.
X-rays.
MyYesterdays, because God has used them to make me who I am.
Zigzags, because sometimes it is fun not to...
February 2, 2015
Authors Who Inspire | Jane Kirkpatrick
Jane Kirkpatrick is the award-winning author of 27 titles, 22 novels and five non-fiction titles. She’s a former mental health clinic director and worked for the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs for 17 years working with families. Her novels have won awards including the 2013 Carol Award for Best Christian Historical Novel and she’s earned national and regional honors from the Western Heritage Center, USABestBooks, Library Journal, Women Writing the West, and the Oregon book Award. She’s b...
February 1, 2015
Spotlight: Meek and Mild by Olivia Newport
MEEK AND MILD
by Olivia Newport
The leadership in an Old Order Amish community requires shunning friends and family whose only offense is to embrace the new Protestant practice of Sunday school among the Mennonites, but teaching Bible stories to children is one of Clara Kuhns’ great joys. Clara’s on the verge of saying yes to Andrew Raber’s marriage proposal, but now he is flagrantly refusing to submit to the bishop’s authority by owning a car. When the lot falls to Moses Beachy to become the n...
Spotlight: The Last Heiress by Mary Ellis
THE LAST HEIRESS
by Mary Ellis
She Crossed the Sea to Save a Legacy … Finding Love Was Not Part of Her Plan
Amanda Dunn set sail from England for Wilmington, North Carolina, hoping to restore shipments of cotton for her family’s textile mills, which have been severely disrupted by the American Civil War. But when she meets Nathaniel Cooper, her desire to conduct business and quickly return to England changes.
Amanda’s family across the sea deems the hardworking merchant unsuitable for the lovely a...
January Wrap Up
I have come to really enjoy these monthly wrap ups. It allows me to pause and reflect on how I am spending my time and what I am accomplishing. January was a busy month, so let’s get right to it.
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Books Read:
My reading year got off to a rip-roaring start. I completed nine books this month. I’m guessing that is a record for me. Of course, I count a book read in the month that I finish it, and I finished two big novels and one longer non-fiction right after the start o...
January 30, 2015
Alphabet Thanks: A through K
My morning quiet time has been enriched by the books I am reading each day, books that are focused on prayer. The book I am currently reading isBefore Amen: The Power of a Simple Prayerby Max Lucado. I am also using theprayers fromPocket Prayers: 40 Simple Prayers that Bring Peace and Restby Max and Andrea Lucado. I highly recommend both books.
Today’s reading was the chapter on “Thank You” and the importance of a thankful heart. According to Max, his wife was the one who suggested he listhis...
January 28, 2015
Spotlight: Serving Up a Sweetheart by Cheryl Wyatt
SERVING UP A SWEETHEART
by Cheryl Wyatt
Renovation contractor Colin McGrath can’t see someone in need and walk away. Which is precisely why, when a winter storm damages his new neighbor’s in-home catering kitchen, he offers his construction skills to fix it, even though he knows he is the last person his former classmate would accept help from. After all, he was part of a series of high school pranks that nearly ruined Meadow Larson’s life.
Meadow realizes she’s having the mother of all Mondays...
January 27, 2015
Spotlight: The Salt Covenants by Sylvia Bambola
THE SALT COVENANTS
by Sylvia Bambola
“Bambola (Rebekah’s Treasure) elevates a simple historical tale into something transcendent, in this beautifully written novel about a young Jewish noblewoman, Isabel, who flees the Inquisition on Christopher Columbus’s second voyage to the New World.” Publishers Weekly starred review
“But these plans they have laid out for me like an embroidered rug, showing me where my feet must travel, is to me an awful penance for sins I did not commit.” Isabel
Spain 1493:...
Book Review: George Muller, The Guardian of Bristol’s Orphans
Title:
George Muller: The Guardian of Bristol's Orphans
Series:
Christian Heroes: Then and Now
Author:
Janet Benge, Geoff Benge,
Genre:
Biography
Publisher:
Y W A M Pub
Release Date:
Jun 1 1999
Format:
Kindle & Audiobook
Pages:
208
Looks at the life and accomplishments of the Christian evangelist and coordinator of orphanages in Bristol, England, who cared for more than ten thousand orphans in his lifetime.
Highly Recommend...
