All posts for the month July, 2013

A Writer’s Unbelief

By Laura J. Marshall Dear God in Heaven, what have I just promised?   These thoughts haunt me. They tease me in their weightiness and echo through my mind. I’m a writer. I write. And I scare myself to death on a regular basis.   I make promises of the written word, stories […]

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The Power of Words

By Suzanne D Williams I’ve always heard the advice, “Read what you’ve written aloud,’ but truthfully, never followed through on it. I mean, why, when it’s all right here in my ol’ noggin? Then I decided to put my stories on audiobook.   I had no idea how true the statement was until […]

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Enthusiasm

By  Staci Stallings Ever since reading The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning, I have been having a lot of fun.  Why?  Because I let go of “I have to. . .” and started letting God dictate what went on the schedule for any given day.  Let me tell you, that will open doors […]

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The Life of a Cowboy

By Staci Stallings One of the most interesting things I’ve witnessed as an author is that not only does each story have an internal story–what it’s about, who the characters are, what happens, but each story also has its own “life story.”  The story of how it came to be and its journey […]

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Swallowed by Life

By Ada Brownell SWALLOWED BY LIFE: Mysteries of Death, Resurrection and the Eternal http://amzn.to/Jnc1rW By Ada Brownell Do you know evidence shows we’re more than a physical body?” The above book speaks about this mystery and the evidence; the wonder of life with all its electrical systems; the awesome truth about cell death […]

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Hidden Treasures

By Penny Zeller I just love my grandma. Nanie is a tiny 82-year-old Swedish gal with a fiery spunk and a kind heart. Not long ago, we were talking on the phone (she lives 650 miles away) and she was telling me about how difficult it was to go through all of my grandpa’s things […]

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Self-publishing Options

Self-publishing is no longer as expensive as the days when people were forced to use vanity publishers if they did not go the traditional publishing route. There are many more options available for authors. We are only exploring some of the more known options. Several of the places offer paid services should you […]

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Writer’s Devotional

By Donna Clark Goodrich But they all alike began to make excuses (Luke 14:18). What’s Your Excuse for Not Writing?             I’d like to write but . . . We’ve all probably heard—and perhaps used—every excuse for not putting pen to paper, or hands to keyboards, after God has called us to write: […]

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CrossReads Book Blast: One Night With a Rock Star by Chana Keefer, $50 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway

Send to Kindle One Night With a Rock Star By: Chana Keefer FREE TODAY FOR AMAZON KINDLE! About the Book It’s Anne of Green Gables Meets Rattle & Hum. Worlds collide. When Esther was a young teen with frizzy hair and too-skinny legs, Sky’s music soothed her through awkwardness and pain. Now she’s a college […]

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Loving the Unembraceable

By Precarious Yates “Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy.” Matthew 5:7 Sometimes God puts people in our lives that test us right down to the very core of who we are. They are people we have to forgive over and over and over and over again. She gets right under […]

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