My husband and I have spoken about how I probably wouldn’t have liked him very much before he was saved, if I would have liked him at all. Sometimes I ponder just how amazing it is that God doesn’t love us because we have given our lives to Him and […]
When I tried out for the Thespian Society’s production of three one-act plays, I knew that as a sophomore in high school, I shouldn’t expect to get the best role, so I tried out for a lesser, but still appealing one. The reading the director had me do was one […]
Assumptions are terribly dangerous. Yet we make them all the time. We ascribe motives to people, read things into what they say. . . And usually, when we do this, we assume the worst. Why are we so quick to think people don’t mean what they say? Life changed dramatically […]
I’m happy to have author June McCrary Jacobs here today to talk about her book, Handmade Hearts. Before we get into the interview, here is a little about the book. Interview Which person (living or dead) would you most want to be able to interview? What is one question you […]
I remember a particular time I flew out to visit my sister and her family. While I was there, I took one of my teenage nephews out to lunch. He is very shy and had mentioned to his mom that he was afraid he wouldn’t know what to talk about. […]
Only a handful of verses. Outside of genealogies, he is only mentioned in three places. In two of them, it is only a single verse. And yet, I think Enoch is one of the most interesting people in the Bible. What do we know about him? In Jude, it is […]
Someone forwarded a video to me of Christmas caroling. It started out with a girl playing the violin and then a few more people joined her with other instruments and then singers joined in. It was lovely and the camera captured the delighted expressions on the faces of those who […]
You may be familiar with the story of Samuel anointing David as king. Samuel cautiously had the village elders tell Jesse to attend a sacrifice (he didn’t want King Saul to know he was doing this!) and to bring his sons. God had instructed him to do this and that […]
A Bedazzling Christmas is part of the second collection, Love at the Christmas Inn. The stories are tied together by the inn. Each story stands alone. My review is for A Bedazzling Christmas by Tanya Stowe. Lauren and Shaun had met and fell in love at the Christmas Inn but […]
Finally, Katie gets her story told. After seeing her struggle with keeping the Blackwell ranch afloat in the past four books of the series, we now get to see more of what has been going on. The pressure she has been under to hide her father’s secret and to keep […]