CrossReads Short Takes: Willa’s Woes & Beneath the Graffiti 1/1/2024

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CrossReads Short Takes

Willa’s Woes

(Westward Home and Hearts Mail-Order Brides Book 54)

Janice Cole Hopkins

Willa's Woes

Willa Markoe had to deal with too much misfortune in her life. First, her parents die. Then she and her brother need to sell the farm. They buy a cottage in the city, but her brother dies. Willa can’t find a job, and the bank starts foreclosure proceedings on her house. Finally, she meets a matchmaker who helps, and Willa agrees to travel to the Dakota Territory to marry a stranger. Her intended is a farmer, and she looks forward to farm life again, but marriage can have its own set of problems and so does living through a Dakota winter. Can Willa ever find the happiness she longs for?

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Beneath the Graffiti

A De-churched Christian’s Search for Christianity

by CJ Penn

Beneath the Graffiti

Jesus Christ created a masterpiece when He lived and taught what came to be called Christianity. Then, over the centuries, men splattered graffiti on that masterpiece, graffiti in the form of manmade rules, doctrines, beliefs, and traditions. Today, the manmade sometimes obscures the God-made to the point where, in some Christian circles, Jesus’ masterpiece is barely visible.

Sensing that the Christianity he had been experiencing was influenced more by man than God, many years ago CJ Penn left church and stepped off on a journey in search of the masterpiece. This book is a record of what he found when he peered beneath the accumulated graffiti of the past 2000 years, graffiti painted by church history and human nature.

What CJ found confirmed his suspicions that, when we look on the surface of modern Christianity, we don’t always see what Jesus lived and taught—we don’t always see the truth of what it means to be Christian. Yet, by scraping off the graffiti and revealing Jesus’ masterpiece, CJ hopes this book will help Jesus get His Christianity back.

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