All posts for the month December, 2021

Falling Down and Getting Back Up 12/31/2021

by Staci Stallings One of the things I find interesting from an omniscient point of view is being able to take a step back and see trends in my writing. I know there are other authors who plot out ideas. I’m not one of them. I write where the Spirit leads me, and […]

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CrossReads Book Spotlight: Journey to Joy

Send to Kindle CrossReads Book Spotlight Journey to Joy by Anne Perreault Can she find joy where there has only been defeat and dishonor? Tricked into indentured servitude, Joy Richards finds herself working for an abusive innkeeper. Her life is so destitute, she feels God has forsaken her. After one last desperate cry to God, […]

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CrossReads Short Takes: A Mustard Seed & Dwelling

Send to Kindle CrossReads Short Takes A Mustard Seed (A Woman Like Me Book 1) by Sadie Cuffe What if you asked God to shake up your life and, when He did, you lost your friend, your marriage, and your faith? Susanna Jacobs longs for a change, but she can’t put her desire into words. […]

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Know the Truth 12/28/2021

by Suzanne D. Williams There is only two sides in life. The TRUTH and the LIE. The Word of God is TRUTH, and all else that does not agree with it is a LIE. There is no gray area. (Jn 17:17) I had a reason recently to encounter the LIE. I saw plainly […]

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CrossReads Weekly Devotional: Verse of the Day and Devotional 12/27/2021

Send to Kindle December 27, 2021 Scripture When the water in the skin was gone, she put the child under one of the bushes. Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off, about the distance of a bowshot, for she said, ‘Let me not look on the death of the child.’ […]

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Trash Bags: Mirror, Mirror Excerpt 12/24/2021

by Staci Stallings “Hold up!” Luke said, yanking to a stop. He looked at Sage and couldn’t stop the grin. In the orange T-shirt that was 3 sizes too big, she looked like a traffic cone. “Looks like they put you to work.” “Yeah,” and she didn’t look overly thrilled about that at all. “Yay […]

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CrossReads Book Spotlight: The Letters 12/23/2021

Send to Kindle CrossReads Book Spotlight The Letters by C. Kevin Thompson Previously published as The Letters by Mantle Rock Publishing. 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 […]

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CrossReads Short Takes: A Light in the Window & When It Storms 12/22/2021

Send to Kindle CrossReads Short Takes A Light in the Window Prequel to The Daughters of Boston and Winds of Change Series by Julie Lessman (NOTE! THIS IS A SWEET INSPIRATIONAL WITH A BIT HIGHER LEVEL OF ROMANTIC AND SPIRITUAL PASSION.) One Woman. Two Men. One stirs her pulse and the other her faith. But […]

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Absent from the Body… 12/21/2021

by Parker J. Cole Writing this post is difficult for many reasons. I am dealing with the loss of my grandmother who passed away last month on November 5th. Although that amount of time has gone, the holiday season, and her birthday on December 20th makes the pang of her absence sharper.  A […]

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CrossReads Weekly Devotionals: Weekly Devotional: Gems from Pastor Jim 12/20/2021

Send to Kindle by Jim Hughes Matt. 13:11-12 Then he explained to them, “You have been permitted to understand the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven, but others have not. To those who are open to my teaching, more understanding will be given, and they will have an abundance of knowledge. But to those who […]

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