All posts for the month December, 2020

CrossReads Book Spotlight: The Girl Who Sees Angels

Send to Kindle CrossReads Book Spotlight The Girl Who Sees Angels (Sophie Ramos Book 1) by Jeffrey McClain Jones SOPHIE RAMOS has always had visions—perceptions of beings others don’t see. Even her mother doubted her as a child. Psychiatrists doubted her too. Psychics tried to recruit her to enrich and empower themselves. Now she’s thirty-two, […]

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CrossReads Short Takes: The Letters & To Ever Keep My Heart

Send to Kindle CrossReads Short Takes The Letters by C. Kevin Thompson Rachel Hamar–a Manhattan bank teller–lives nothing close to a Manhattan lifestyle. Residing in Washington Heights, NY, the only thing keeping her in The Big Apple is her mother–a long-time patient in a local psychiatric hospital. It’s December 2014, and the twentieth anniversary of […]

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What Can We Learn From Bugs Bunny? 12/29/2020

by Suzanne D. Williams I woke up one morning with a scene from a classic Bugs Bunny cartoon replaying in my head (again). This happened to me several months ago and what a profound lesson I learned! This time, Bugs had taken the fated “left turn at Albuquerque,” and read that with your best New York accent, and popped […]

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CrossReads Weekly Devotionals: Quilt Scraps 12/28/2020

Send to Kindle by Ruth O’Neil Quilting is one of my favorite Sunday activates. It’s relaxing to me. I grew up watching my mother sew. In fact, many times she sat me down at her other sewing machine and gave me a project of my own on which to work. While sewing one day recently, I thought about all the quilts […]

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Live the Love of Christmas Every Day 12/25/2020

by Robin McKinley How would you use the words “love” and “Christmas” together in a sentence? The most common way is, I love Christmas. Another way refers to how the birth of our Savior changed the world. Because of the compassion of God, He designed for us to live the love of Christmas everyday.   When Jesus spoke to Nicodemus […]

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CrossReads Book Spotlight: The Secret of Willow Inn

Send to Kindle CrossReads Book Spotlight The Secret of Willow Inn (Willow Falls Series Book 1) by Pat Nichols Acclaimed Willow Falls series inaugural novel delivers inspirational, emotional story of a small town’s struggle to survive. 2020 Selah Award Winner Three Strangers… Emily Hayes, an aspiring novelist, desperate to transform her dying hometown into a […]

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CrossReads Short Takes: In Due Season & Becoming a Christian and Living a Blessed Life 12/23/2020

Send to Kindle CrossReads Short Takes In Due Season A Story of Colonial Williamsburg by Sandi Rebert Born in a London workhouse, John has suffered years of physical and verbal abuse. Finally managing to escape, he stows away on a ship bound for the colonies, only to be discovered while out at sea. After another […]

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The Point is … Periodically 12/22/2020

by James Collins “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 6:23    I understand people today don’t believe in spanking kids, but I was raised in a different time. Spanking was a daily occurrence for me.   Corporal punishment was still in the […]

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CrossReads Weekly Devotional: Gems From Pastor Jim 12/21/2020

Send to Kindle by Jim Hughes Amos 8:5 You can’t wait for the Sabbath day to be over and the religious festivals to end so you can get back to cheating the helpless. You measure out your grain in false measures and weigh it on dishonest scales.” How consistent are you in your faith walk? […]

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Finding Love

by Gail Pallotta Luke 2: 11-12, “Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. You will find a baby wrapped in cloths lying in a manger.”  God sent Jesus to save sinners, because he loves us. Jesus suffered and died to conquer death for […]

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