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All Decked Out For Christmas
All Decked Out For Christmas by Maureen Lang One of the reasons so many of us love the holiday season is that it’s just so…pretty! Twinkling lights, shiny ornaments, packages that glisten with bows and fancy wrapping. Our houses are trimm...
urgent prayer request
Could you please send some prayers up asap. A baby we know is having severe health issues and may not make it through the night. He sure could use all the prayers he could get. He is 6 months old and is bleeding from the brain....
devotions for preschoolers
Have you ever tried to get a toddler to sit still? Sometimes it’s pretty hard. Especially when it’s to listen to a book that has more than 2 words per page! I love the new book I received called The One Year Devotions for Preschooler...
Primal
Primal – A Quest for the Lost Soul of Christianity by Mark Batterson The title of this book reminds me of the book I read a few years back called the Barbarian Way (which I will add that I thoroughly enjoyed!), so I don’t think the conc...
Calling Elizabeth … HELP!
Calling Elizabeth … HELP! by Tricia Goyer Mary, the mother of Jesus is one of the most well-known women of all time. She was also a teen mom facing an unplanned pregnancy. This Christmas we will see evidence of Mary’s story all around us...
Join me at the Well
Join me at the well ...
More than a Match
Dear Tech Support: Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a slowdown in the performance of the flower and jewelry applications that had operated flawlessly under the Boyfriend 5.0 system. In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstal...
99 Ways to Fight Worry and Stress.
#98 YOU ARE LOVED …He loves you. He loves you as you chew on your nails or furrow your brow. He loves you when you process through the fifty different ways that things could go wrong. He loves your smile. He wipes your tears. He does...
The Christmas Kitchen
I thought this was a fun thing to get involved with, so this is my first Wild Card Tour post. What is FIRST Wild Card Tour book reviews? We review Christian books, but you never know which book it will be –fiction, non~fiction, for young, o...
Love Finds You in Lonesome Prairie, Montana!
Love Finds You in Lonesome Prairie, Montana! by Ocieanna Fleiss and Tricia Goyer What is it about: Love Finds You in Lonesome Prairie Montana is a historical romance that takes place in 1889. Julia takes an orphan train to deliver girls from her l...
Happy American Thanksgiving
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The Year of Living Like Jesus
The Year of Living Like Jesus by Ed Dobson On the back: Evangelical Pastor Ed Dobson had a radical idea… Live one yar as Jesus lived. Eat as Jesus ate. Pray as Jesus prayed. Observe the Sabbath as jesus observed it. Attend the Jewish ...
The Respect Dare – Week 3
This week I want to leave you with a challenge from day 23 What can you do to encourage your husband and build him up, instead of tearing him down. What can you do that will help him accomplish some of his dreams? Don’t tell me, just decide ...
scratch scratch scratch…. the Curse of Spider King
Scratch scratch scratch… scratching the surface; that’s what this book feels like. Batson and Hopper lay a fantastic foundation for your series and I can’t even begin to tell you how fun and interesting this book was. I think this...
Curse of the Spider King
Tomorrow I’ll be reviewing this youth book (Ages 9-12) In the mean time check out links to their sites: Wayne Thomas Batson’s blog - http://enterthedoorwithin.blogspot.com/ Christopher Hopper’s Web site - http://www.christopherhopper.com/ T...
The respect dare – week 2
So I’m on week two of the Respect Dare by Nina Roesner. Week two was harder than I was expecting. The challenges weren’t anymore difficult than the first, just remembering and putting them into practice while I’m in PMS mode is...
Lost Mission
Lost Mission by Athol Dickson On the Back of the book: An idyllic Spanish mission collapses in the eighteenth century atop the supernatural evidence of a shocking crime. Twelve generations later the ground is opened up, the forgotten ruins are distur...
the Respect Dare – Week 1
“Women get married with dreams, hopes and aspirations of feeling fulfilled in the most intimate of human relationships, that of marriage. More than half end in divorce in the United States, and many women that stay married still suffer the sa...
Pearl girls
Pearl Girls: Encountering Grit, Experiencing Grace by Margaret McSweeney (Compiler) Pearl girls is a compilation of some of my favorite authors and respected writers (sixty in total) who share their personal story of faith with you. You’...
The Respect Dare
Do you respect your husband? Coming from a female driven family I have a hard time with this; I mean not like we as women don’t have a hard time with this in general, but the longer I’ve been married, the longer I realize I need to work m...
intercultural
Intercultural Marriages. Do you consider yourself in one. My husband and I are. We may have similar skin tones, but that has little to do with our different backgrounds. He is Dutch and I am a mishmash of Canadian heritages that have caused ...
fall cleaning
Today I’ve been cleaning out the closets and getting organized for a few things. 1. Christmas, making sure I clean out my “gift box” 2. in anticipation of our addition being finished, and 3. to see what I can donate to people in nee...
the Swiss Courier
The Swiss Courier by Tricia Goyer and Mike Yorkey About the book! It is August 1944 and the Gestapo is mercilessly rounding up suspected enemies of the Third Reich. When Joseph Engel, a German physicist working on the atomic bomb, finds that he i...
Haunt of Jackals
With halloween coming up this month, this was a great way to curb some of it with a Christian twist on evil. Haunt of Jackals by Eric Wilson is a suspense/thriller book. It sheds light on the darkness of sin and how it can envelop us and eat us up...
vampires and jackals oh my!
How many of you have seen Twilight? With all the hoopla on it and the Vampire Diaries on tv these days, I was excited to see a Christian authors take on vampires. I love thriller/suspense books, and read a lot of that sort of stuff when I ...
Breathing life…
I have to admit this is my second time reviewing this book. I really loved it the first time and when I saw it on the Litfuse tour, I couldn’t help but be a part of it again. I gave my orginal copy away because this book had such an effec...
And the winner is..
Realizing I should have put an end date on my contest, I got Mr. C to pick a winner for me (he didn’t know which # I had for everyone). The winner is Renee C! And yes, you did pick one of my fav. authors (though not the one listed lol). C...
a sci-fi freebie!
Well, I found a sweet treat for my friends today on the might WWW. Check it out. Rachel Star Thompson has offered a free copy of her book World’s Unseen online http://www.rachelstarrthomson.com/free-stuff/free-ebook-worlds/ yes, free! I love it...
A slow burn
A Slow Burn By Mary DeMuth What’s the book about? Burying her grief, Emory Chance is determined to find her daughter Daisy’s murderer–a man she saw in a flicker of a vision. But when the investigation hits a dead end, her despair ...
