All posts for the month August, 2019

Love Yourself 8/16/2019

by C.J. Peterson This day and age everyone is trying to be like everyone else. What people sometimes forget, is that you were created to be an original. Without these original geniuses, where would the world be: Charles Dickens had MAJOR OCD, but still managed to produce wonderful works of literature that we […]

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CrossReads Book Spotlight: Slanted

CrossReads Book Spotlight Slanted by H. L. Wegley Americans are drowning in information with no clue that it will soon steal their nation and their liberty.Orphaned as an adolescent then cycled through the foster-care system, AJ Scott, believes she’s so badly broken that no one would want her. When she finds an orphaned […]

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CrossReads Short Takes: An Agent for Clementine & Overcoming the Seesaw of Wisdom against Fear

CrossReads Short Takes An Agent for Clementine (The Pinkerton Matchmaker Book 36) by Ginny Sterling Hidden identities, an infamous robbery, and a sudden marriage make for one sweet & tender adventure!  Clementine Fenton was betrothed for years to a man she’d never met, pushing off the nuptials for as long as possible. When […]

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Gems From Pastor Jim 8/13/2019

by Jim Hughes Is. 58:13-14a Keep the Sabbath day holy. Don’t pursue your own interests on that day, but enjoy the Sabbath and speak of it with delight as the LORD’s holy day. Honor the LORD in everything you do, and don’t follow your own desires or talk idly. If you do this, […]

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CrossReads Weekly Devotional: Thank the Lord in Spite of Whatever Circumstances You Are Encountering

Send to Kindle by Rebekah Beene I read the incredible story of Julianne Koepka. She and her mother were on a flight in 1971 that was struck by lightning. Julianne, 17, strapped into her plane seat, plummeted 2 miles through the air into the Peruvian rainforest below. When she woke up, she then had to […]

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Seeing Miracles

by Sherry Chamblee I recently had a conversation where someone was asking for stories of people who have overcome great spiritual challenges. She was looking for ways to describe this, a way to connect with those people who have gone through tough things and come out the other side with God’s help.    She […]

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CrossReads Book Spotlight: JESSIE’S HIGH COUNTRY HEART

Send to Kindle CrossReads Book Spotlight JESSIE’S HIGH COUNTRY HEART Dart River Novel #2 by Patricia Snelling Jessie Lee, a young New Zealand vet leaves the city to join her friend, Hope Rigby in the Southern Alps in a remote rural village called Glenorchy. When she takes up her new post there as a remote […]

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CrossReads Short Takes: A Heartbroken Father & Musing Christian Principles

Send to Kindle CrossReads Short Takes A Heartbroken Father 10-year-old Gracie & the Save a Soul Prayer Team (A Fruit of the Spirit Book Book 1) by Paula~ Rose I’m always blessed to have God direct my writing! This book and series would not exist if not for the Lord and a new friend who […]

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Verse of the Day and Devotional 8/6/2019

by Bible League International Verse of the Day and Devotion All this is from God…  – II Corinthians 5:18 ESV Devotion What does “All this” in our verse for today refer to specifically? The previous verse has the answer: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has […]

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CrossReads Weekly Devotional: Coming Back to the Smile 8/5/2019

Send to Kindle by Precarious Yates These past few years have been difficult for me in ways I haven’t discussed publicly. Mostly, I withdrew. I had difficulties with one of my children to the point that I was emotionally needy. Extremely emotionally needy. The one thing I sensed from God was that I needed to […]

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