Janet Sketchley's Blog: Tenacity, page 90
October 22, 2014
Because You Belong to the Lord
Now I appeal to Euodia and Syntyche. Please, because you belong to the Lord, settle your disagreement.
Philippians 4:2, NLT*
Because you belong to the Lord.
We forget this perspective, forget that belonging to the Lord is supposed to make a difference in our behaviours and our motivations. Not so we can earn more love (or more salvation) – we can’t — but because we love this God who loved us first.
We want to please Him. And we want the people around us to see the difference He makes in our lives...
October 21, 2014
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October 20, 2014
Review: Soulminder, by Timothy Zahn
Soulminder, by Timothy Zahn (Open Road Integrated Media, 2014)
Adrian Sommer’s 5-year-old son died in his arms after a car accident. The boy’s injuries were all treatable, if there’d been a way—a sort of holding tank—to keep his soul from departing. Thus began Sommer’s obsessive quest to invent a means of stopping untimely deaths. And Soulminder was created.
What could possibly go wrong?
Timothy Zahn is a master of short fiction (won a Nebula) as well as novel-length (won a Hugo), and Soulminder...
October 17, 2014
Meet Joey Hill
Joey Hill is an ordinary-looking guy with a wispy moustache and a wide smile. He jokes that people expect him to be bigger, to fit his nose.
Joey was a popular radio personality on Canada’s West Coast until a very public disgrace cost him his job, his relationships and his freedom. He’d tell you the one good thing about losing everything is that he found Jesus. Or Jesus found him.
Now he’s starting over in a new city, hosting a late-night all-request oldies radio show. And lucky to have a job i...
October 15, 2014
Standing Together
Above all, you must live as citizens of heaven, conducting yourselves in a manner worthy of the Good News about Christ. Then, whether I come and see you again or only hear about you, I will know that you are standing together with one spirit and one purpose, fighting together for the faith, which is the Good News.
Philippians 1:27, NLT*
I’ve always taken the first part of this verse as a call to live like I believe the good news of Jesus—not to live cranky or fearful or hopeless, overwhelmed by...
October 13, 2014
Review: Night Watch, by Linda Hall
Night Watch, by Linda Hall (Linda Hall, 2014)
Captain Emmeline Ridge’s stint delivering a luxury sailboat from Canada to Bermuda is rudely interrupted when the owner’s daughter vanishes over the side in the middle of the night. The ship and crew are brought to Portland, Maine, for an investigation, but the complications have only begun.
Detective Ben Dunlinson, new to the Portland City Police and very new to all things nautical, seems competent despite rumours of past disgrace. The local sailin...
October 10, 2014
Meet Paul Daniels
Keeping secrets? Just a few.
Paul Daniels is sixteen years old and living a double life. If his mother knew he was playing in a band, she’d freak. So she won’t find out.
Paul needs the music like he needs to breathe. It’s something he inherited from his father. The only plus about Mom dragging him half-way across the country to start a new life is the chance to take guitar lessons from Mr. Morelli. Paul works after school at the music store to pay for lessons. And he’s in a new band with some f...
October 8, 2014
Encouragement for the Struggle
For I know that as you pray for me and the Spirit of Jesus Christ helps me, this will lead to my deliverance.
Philippians 1:19, NLT*
Paul trusts Jesus. He’s already been “saved” in the sense of being rescued from the penalty of sin. In context here, Paul is in prison and some of his enemies are trying to make that even harder for him. Likely the “deliverance” he’s thinking of is release from his chains.
If we belong to Jesus, we’re free from the power of sin and death, but there are still “chain...
October 6, 2014
Review: Ithaca, by Susan Fish
Ithaca, by Susan Fish (Storywell, 2014)
When your life revolves around your husband and his work, what do you do when you have to start over? Alone?
Ithaca is a coming-of-age story—for a 59-year-old woman.
Daisy Turner’s husband, Arthur, was a professor at Cornell University. She typed his notes and kept his home. And made soup for a crowd every Wednesday.
They married young, and Daisy found fulfillment as a wife and mother. Now her son works overseas, and she’s a widow. And most of her friends a...
October 3, 2014
Meet Carol Daniels
If you’ve read Heaven’s Prey,you may remember that Harry Silver has asister, Carol Silver Daniels. Secrets and Lies is Carol’s story, and it takes place chronologically between the final chapter of Heaven’s Prey and the epilogue.
Heaven’s Prey is psychological suspense, and pretty intense in places. Secrets and Lies has a lighter tone, and it’s romantic suspense. I hope you’ll enjoy it.
With Secrets and Lies releasing next month, I want to introduce some of my fictional friends. So… meet Carol...
