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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...
November 25, 2015
Living Worship
Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.
Colossians 3:23, NLT*
When I was in the workforce, I reminded myself of this verse to help my attitude and my conduct. One key is a willing heart – not a grudging, grumbling, bitter one. It’s not about what the management “deserves” – it’s about what our God deserves.
What does God deserve? Worship.
Paul expands on this in his letter to the Romans when he urges them (and us) to “give your bodi...
November 23, 2015
Review: Vendetta, by Lisa Harris
Vendetta, by Lisa Harris (Revell, 2015)
Missing persons investigator Nikki Boyd brings an extra empathy to her cases, since it was her own sister’s disappearance that led her to this career. Ten years after the fact, logic says her sister can’t still be alive when the other victims have been found dead, but Nikki’s heart won’t give up hope.
When Nikki and her friend Tyler are called to investigate a missing teen girl, it doesn’t take long for similarities in the case to make Nikki wonder if h...
November 20, 2015
Thought Defense
There’s a scene in one of the first Harry Potter books that speaks to our daily thought life. It’s been a long time since I read it, but I can paraphrase.
Young Harry is at wizard school [please, let’s not get into an argument about the pros and cons of magic in fiction] and the lesson is on controlling another person’s thoughts. The aim of the class is to learn self-defense against such a thing, because there are villains on the loose.
When it’s Harry’s turn, he experiences a sudden desire t...
November 18, 2015
Wholesome Thinking
This is my second letter to you, dear friends, and in both of them I have tried to stimulate your wholesome thinking and refresh your memory.
2 Peter 3:1, NLT*
This is a key part of why we need to read (and take in) the Bible, prayerfully and on a daily basis.
We’re living in just as much a culture of ungodliness as the early church. The difference is, in North America people think they’ve “been there, heard that” and have no need of our truth. In Peter’s day, it was new information, and so...
