All posts for the month July, 2022

Nobody Warned Me 7/29/2022

by Staci Stallings When I first started writing Contemporary Christian Romance in 1996, nobody told me what a crazy, twisting road this journey would turn out to be.  First of all, back then there was no such thing as Contemporary Christian Romance.  It literally did not exist as a genre. I had been […]

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CrossReads Book Spotlight: Texas Wildflowers 7/28/2022

Send to Kindle CrossReads Book Spotlight Texas Wildflowers Thanksgiving Books and Blessings Collection Five (Cross Timbers Romance Family Saga Book 8) by Caryl McAdoo Raise up your children in the way they should go, and when they are old, they will not depart from it. Getting the babies old is the key! Maisie Lowell and […]

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CrossReads Short Takes: Redemption’s Hope & God’s plans and purpose for humanity 7/27/2022

Send to Kindle CrossReads Short Takes Redemption’s Hope (Western Dreams) by Kathleen D. Bailey Two distinct sets of villains. Two orphaned children. A man without a country and a woman with too much past…All in a rambunctious young country where anything goes, especially in the West. Seriously. What can go wrong? In this latest installment […]

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God Himself 7/26/2022

by Suzanne D. Williams It was the plan of the ages, set in place by GOD HIMSELF. God would send God to earth, conceived by God, so that God could die and inherit what God willed God to have.  God wrote the rules. He made a God-promise with a man named Abraham, whose […]

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CrossReads Weekly Devotional: Verse of the Day and Devotional 7/25/2022

Send to Kindle July 25th, 2022 Scripture The righteous person faces many troubles, but the Lord comes to the rescue each time. – Psalm 34:19 NLT Devotion In this world we have and will have troubles. King David says even the righteous person faces many troubles. And he would know, for he was a righteous man […]

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Musings on the Characters in Cowboy 7/22/2022

by Staci Stallings Having lived with the characters in Cowboy for many years now, it fascinates me how much they still teach me and others who read the book and want to talk about it with me. Ashton Raines is the hero, and I think he kind of epitomizes where we all *think* we […]

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CrossReads Book Spotlight: A Bride for Crock 7/21/2022

Send to Kindle CrossReads Book Spotlight A Bride for Crock (The Proxy Brides Book 72) by Joi Copeland He craves order. She longs for spontaneity. Crock Harden watched both his brothers accept their parents’ inheritance early, start their own business, and find women to wed by placing advertisements for mail order brides by proxy. They […]

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CrossReads Short Takes: The Welcome Wagon & The Battle For Your Mind 7/20/2022

Send to Kindle CrossReads Short Takes The Welcome Wagon by Jamie Adams When a wagon train is attacked leaving women and children alone and vulnerable, churches throughout the Ozarks take them in. Maggie Lynn and her wards, along with three other women, end up in an out-of-the-way town in Arkansas. Maggie has seen her fair […]

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Growing Use of Psychedelics in Christian Circles 7/19/2022

Editor’s Note: The following is from Parker J. Cole’s Write Stuff Radio. Her most popular program this year. by Parker J. Cole On June 11, I aired a show about the growing use of psychedelics in Christian circles. I didn’t expect the kind of response I received. Some Christians were against the use […]

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CrossReads Weekly Devotional: Verse of the Day and Devotional 7/18/2022

Send to Kindle July 18th, 2022 Scripture For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. – John 3:17 ESV Devotion The average American will tell you that their favorite season is summer. They love the bright sun, the green grass and the long […]

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