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February 7, 2014
Interview: Kimberley Payne on Adam’s Animals
Kimberley Payne is a prolific non-fiction writer with works ranging from activity books to devotionals to workbooks. She writes to equip women for faithful living.
Janet: Kimberley, welcome back to my blog. We talked last year about your children’s activity book, Trees of the Book—Learning from God’s Creation. Clearly it’s been well-received, because you’re moving ahead with more in the Science and Faith Matters series. Please tell us what’s new.
Kimberley: Yes, Adam’s Animals is the second boo...
February 5, 2014
Will We Wait?
When the people realized that Moses was taking forever in coming down off the mountain, they rallied around Aaron and said, “Do something. Make gods for us who will lead us. That Moses, the man who got us out of Egypt—who knows what’s happened to him?”
Exodus 32:1, MSG*
Moses has gone up on Mount Sinai in personal conversation with God. The same God who so dramatically brought the people out of their slavery in Egypt. The same God whose thunder and lightning from the mountain made them plead f...
February 3, 2014
Review: Princess Ever After, by Rachel Hauck
Princess Ever After, by Rachel Hauck (Zondervan, 2014)
Reggie (Regina) Beswick is finally living her own life. Still in her 20′s, she has walked away from a successful accounting position to do what she’s always wanted: restore antique cars. She and her partner, Al, are good at it, too.
Enter Tanner Burkholdt, emissary from Hessenberg (a fictional island duchy in the North Sea, with mixed British and German heritage), claiming Reggie is their long-lost princess—and the duchy’s one chance to reg...
January 31, 2014
Writing Tools I Use
Why did I abandon mechanical pencils for pens?
When I first started writing, I had a thing for mechanical pencils (only the .5mm ones… I was a purist). And I learned to print very small, to cram all the words I could onto a bit of scrap paper.
Perhaps you’ve figured out why I don’t do that anymore… something about trying to see those faint pencil-scratchings while using both hands to type what I’ve written.
Miniscule pen-scratchings, however, are still visible, progressive lenses notwithstanding...
January 29, 2014
Getting It. Remembering It.
And Israel looked at the Egyptian dead, washed up on the shore of the sea, and realized the tremendous power that God brought against the Egyptians. The people were in reverent awe before God and trusted in God and his servant Moses.
Exodus 14:31, MSG*
The people finally get it. They’ve seen God in action: the ten plagues that broke Egypt, and now the dramatic parting of the Red Sea and destruction of the Egyptian army.
How else could they respond but in worship and reverent awe? And by trustin...
January 27, 2014
Review: The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches, by Alan Bradley
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches, by Alan Bradley (Random House, 2014)
[This review contains a spoiler for the previous books in the series.]
There’s so much to love about Flavia de Luce: her quick wits, her unusual view of the world, her propensity for chemicals and poisons. The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches is book six featuring the somewhat dysfunctional de Luce family in their crumbling ancestral home of Buckshaw, England.
It’s 1951. Flavia will soon be 12. She and her sisters have matured, a...
January 24, 2014
For Christian Parents (and those who love them)
Familiar with these questions?
Parenting comes with a lot of second-guessing and what-ifs. We need friends, listening ears, prayer partners.
We also need to keep a good connection with God. He’s the source of hope, wisdom, strength, patience… and everything else that equips us to raise our kids well.
That’s why I’m excited about Powerline365 from Choose NOW Ministries. Yes, I’m published by a branch of this ministry and can’t claim to be impartial. But I’m not obligated promote this; I’m sharing...
January 22, 2014
What Are You Looking At?
And Moses answered, “Look at me. I stutter. Why would Pharaoh listen to me?”
God told Moses, “Look at me. I’ll make you as a god to Pharaoh and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.”
Exodus 6:30-7:1, MSG*
God called Moses to a mind-breaking task: to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt and into the Promised Land. Oh, yes, and to be messenger to Pharaoh, who had no intention of letting them go.
Poor Moses, no wonder he felt overwhelmed from the moment God first called him. Exiled from Egypt...
January 21, 2014
When God Says “I’ve Got This”
I’m guest blogger this week at author Christine Lindsay’s site, sharing one of my key life-lessons from 2013: When God Says “I’ve Got This”. Click over and say hello!
January 20, 2014
Review: Butterfly Palace, by Colleen Coble
Butterfly Palace, by Colleen Coble (Thomas Nelson, 2014)
In 1904 Lily Donaldson leaves small-town Texas to work for the wealthy Marshall family in Austin. It’s not the best time to enter domestic service in the city, with the Servant Girl Killer on the loose. When Lily saves a young woman from an attacker, does she catch his attention?
Lily is a confident young woman, hard-working and skilled, but the opulent home they call the Butterfly Palace takes a bit of getting used to. And she’s creeped...
