Janet Sketchley's Blog: Tenacity, page 71
December 16, 2015
God Stepped In
And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love.
Romans 8:38, NLT*
Paul says not even “our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow.” Fear wants to tell us we’re cut off from God, but fear lies.
Circumstances can be painful, overwhelming. But God is with us, and that is our hope. His love holds u...
December 14, 2015
Review: Worship Changes Everything, by Darlene Zschech
Worship Changes Everything, by Darlene Zschech (Bethany House, 2015)
Note the subtitle of this book: “Experiencing God’s Presence in Every Moment of Life.” Worship Changes Everything is about far more than the music we sing on a Sunday morning.
The book is divided into two sections: The Heart of Worship and The Hands of Worship. First, it focuses on God’s nature and our response to Him from our hearts, and then the bulk of the chapters explore how we can live our worship in all aspects of our...
December 11, 2015
Which one would you choose?
Contemporary,
historical,
suspense,
Christmas?
Without Proof is one of 5 novels in this round of Clash of the Titles. It takes 2 minutes to read the brief descriptions and view the covers, then vote for which one you’d most like to read.
Please pop over and vote… for whichever book catches your eye. [Note, if the voting box isn’t big enough, click inside it and use your down arrow key to navigate through the options. I’m told the boxmay not show up at all on mobile devices.] Vote here: cla...
December 9, 2015
The Reason for the Season
Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 7:24b-25a, NLT*
This is why we celebrate Christmas, and Easter, and every other day of the year. We had an impossible need, and God, in His love, mercy and grace, sent His own Son to meet it.
To walk among humans and reveal what the Father’s heart and will looked like. To lay down His life to ransom and redeem us and to break sin’s hold on us.
For this, we have Jesus,...
December 7, 2015
Review: Storming, by K.M. Weiland
Storming, by K.M. Weiland (PenForASword Publishing, 2015)
In 1920’s Nebraska, Hitch Hitchcock makes his living as a barnstorming pilot – until a woman in a fancy ball gown falls out of the night sky in front of his plane and he gets mixed up with her – and with her enemies.
Hitch doesn’t want anyone depending on him, because he’s let too many people down in the past. He’s back in his hometown for one week only, to compete for a chance to join a flying circus.
His encounter with the mysterious...
December 4, 2015
The Trojan Horse Traitor, by Amy C. Blake
Author Amy C. Blake visited earlier this yearto talk about her novel,Whitewashed. (You can read that interview here.) Today, Amy returns to tell us about her newest release,The Trojan Horse Traitor.
Amy says:
I’m excited to share with you about my latest release, The Trojan Horse Traitor, a young adult fantasy novel about 13-year-old homeschooled pastor’s kid Levi Prince. Levi heads off to Camp Classic, a summer camp on Castle Island in the middle of Lake Superior, and instead finds himself i...
December 3, 2015
Writing and Reading: Settings
Writers,do you prefer to “write what you know” geographically, or to discover new settings, real or imagined?Readers, what do you look for (or avoid) in a setting? Or does it matter?
Pop over to my guest post at International Christian Fiction Writers and join the conversation.
December 2, 2015
Peace With God
Therefore, since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us.
Romans 5:1, NLT*
No wonder one of Jesus’ names is Prince of Peace. What a gift!
Peace with God means:
We don’t have to be afraid of God seeing us or discovering what we’ve done wrong. We’ve been forgiven and can be forgiven again when we mess up. We can come to Him confidently with our needs and concerns… and mostly just come to be with Him. We can...November 30, 2015
Review: The Shock of Night, by Patrick W. Carr
The Shock of Night, by Patrick W. Carr (Bethany House, 2015)
Willett Dura is a member of the local constabulary while in personal service to the King. He’s compassionate to the poor, loyal in his duties, and out of place in the King’s court.
There’s a vault in his mind, a place even he can’t go, linked with his wartime trauma. He’s also a nightwalker, waking in the morning with no memory of leaving his room… but sometimes with bloodstains on his clothes. And always on the night of a murder.
W...
November 27, 2015
Guest Post: Memories of Christmas Past
About this time of year I get the warm fuzzies. Today I’d like to share six of my favourite memories and what they can teach us about the Greatest Gift of All Time, the reason for that very first Christmas so long ago.
A Much-Too-Large Christmas Tree
I remember my dad hauling in a freshly cut Scotch pine each Christmas—only to have to drag it back outside to cut off several inches of the trunk and a number of the bottom branches. Funny how it di...
