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February 12, 2016
Oatmeal Brown Bread
Each novel in my Redemption’s Edge series has a recipe that’s significant to one of the characters. For Without Proof, it’s Aunt Bay’s brown bread, which is suspiciously like my adaptation of Grammie W’s…
For the rest of the story, head over to Country at Heart Recipes.
February 10, 2016
Called to Share
But whatever I am now, it is all because God poured out his special favour on me—and not without results. For I have worked harder than any of the other apostles; yet it was not I but God who was working through me by his grace.
1 Corinthians 15:10, NLT*
“Whatever I am now” – Paul said his actions in persecuting the early Christians made him unworthy to be called an apostle.
Clearly, he was an apostle, or as William Barclay described him, an ambassador for Christ. Yes, he came late to the p...
February 8, 2016
Review: The Bitter End, by Linda Hall
The Bitter End, by Linda Hall (2015)
Most contracts see Captain Em Ridge delivering sailboats to wealthy owners who don’t like to do their own long-haul trips. This time, though, she’s ferrying an over-the-top TV host around the Bermuda Triangle looking for evidence of the bizarre.
It’s an uneventful assignment, until they discover an abandoned sailboat whose occupants seem to have vanished over dinner. Unlike the crew of the Mary Celeste, though, someone put out extra food and water for the...
February 5, 2016
Fiction and Devotionals
Have you seen the newest book in the Fiction Lover’s Devotional series? 21 Days of Love is a natural fit with Valentine’s Day for all matters of the heart, not just for romance. The stories are about various kinds of relationships.
This is such a great series idea: short stories — fiction — each one with a brief life application thoughtat the end. Individuals and groups who’d like to delve deeper can download free study guides for each book.
21 Days of Love is the third book in this series. E...
February 4, 2016
Christian Authors
Christian Authors is a new site featuring Canadian Christian authors. Today, February 4, 2016, they’re hosting a virtual launch party on Facebook, complete with hourly giveaways.
Here’s the lineup of hosts (Eastern Time):
1 pm– ChristianAuthors.ca founder Lynne Collier will be opening up the event with a bit of info about what ChristianAuthors.ca is 2 pm – Author & Editor Steph Beth Nickel 3 pm – Author & Musician Sally Meadows Music and Books 4 pm – Christian Suspense Novelist Janet Sketch...February 3, 2016
Tempted
The temptations in your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will show you a way out so that you can endure.
1 Corinthians 10:13, NLT*
What’s your strategy against temptation? Common sense says it’s willpower and avoidance, and sometimes that’s enough.
But the Bible promises that God Himself will show us a way out of it.
God saved us, cleaned us up, and wants us to liv...
February 1, 2016
Review: Leopard’s Heart, by Kimberly A. Rogers
Leopard’s Heart, by Kimberly A. Rogers (2015)
In this Earth-based present-day urban fantasy, three species co-exist: Humans, Elves, and Therians. There are also assorted nasties held back by a mysterious barrier.
Humans know about the Elves, but they don’t know about the Therians, who work incognito for their protection. Therians are shape-shifters with three forms: humanoid, animal, and half-beast. Each Therian is born into one beast family and has only one beast form.
If this intrigues you...
January 29, 2016
Guest Post: What’s on Your To Be Read Pile?
Do you like how-to books? Memoirs? Novels? Do you carve out regular time for reading or is it hit and miss? Do bookstores and libraries draw you in with an irresistible pull?
As you may know, I’m eclectically interested. The same holds true of what I like to read.
Currently, I am actively reading the following:
Crazy Love by Francis Chan
We are reading this for our small group study at church. I was thrilled to find four of Chan’s books on...
January 27, 2016
Too High a Price
God paid a high price for you, so don’t be enslaved by the world.
1 Corinthians 7:23, NLT*
How is it possible to forget the Cross… and the full cost of Jesus’ sacrifice?
Yet over time as believers, we get caught up in life and responsibilities, and it’s not foremost in our minds.
If God had simply found us at the side of the road while He was out for a stroll, just handed us spare change for a coffee or enough cash for bus fare home, it wouldn’t matter so much if we didn’t reach our potenti...
January 25, 2016
Review: Her Deadly Inheritance, by Beth Ann Ziarnik
Her Deadly Inheritance, by Beth Ann Ziarnik (Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas, 2016)
Runaway Jill Shepherd comes home just before she’s declared her legally dead – which blocks her Aunt Lenore’s dream of finally owning Windtop, the historic family mansion.
Jill’s only living family is hostile, dysfunctional… and possibly dangerous. Was her mother’s death really a suicide, or could it have been murder?
Resident handyman Clay Merrick is searching for evidence of murder, and he’s afraid Ji...
