Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from November, 2015

Every Girl Gets Confused by Janice Thompson

Every Girl Gets Confused by Janice Thompson How can she choose between the love she thought she lost and the love she stumbled upon in the aftermath?   Katie Fisher and Brady James may be a match made in heaven, but that doesn't seem to guarantee them a happily ever after accompanied by angelic choirs. Katie's almost-fiancé Casey is back in Fairfield, ready to rekindle their relationship. And there's nothing Katie's parents want more than for their small-town girl to leave Dallas and come home for good.   But can she really leave Brady behind? And will she ever be able to wear that gorgeous wedding dress she won?   "Every Girl Gets Confused is romantic comedy at its best. A sweet romance. A wonderful band of supporting family and friends. And enough humor to keep me smiling on each page. I highly recommend it!"--Cara Putman, award-winning author of Shadowed by Grace and Where Treetops Glisten   "A delightful mix of romance, ins

My Identity in Christ #5 - I am helped by God

Now that my Bible Study group has finished Priscilla Shirer’s Armor of God study, I need to keep moving in the right direction and I’m not ready to pick up another Bible study because I haven’t applied all I want to apply to my life from this study, yet.   Also, my prayer request lately has been that I would live like I believe God’s promises and how much He loves me.   So, I am beginning a series of blog posts taken from the list Priscilla included in her 6 th week of Bible study regarding our identity and inheritance in Christ.   I pray these reflections will open your eyes to how much God loves you.   Read them as if you wrote them.   Meditate on them.   God bless you. I am helped by God - My Identity in Christ God wants to give me His help.   Sometimes He gives without my asking.   Many times, I have to ask.   I think this is because He wants me to know that He hears my prayers and responds.   He is a loving Father Who wants to give good gifts to His children.   Hebrews

“An Endless Christmas” by Cynthia Ruchti

An Endless Christmas by Cynthia Ruchti     Holiday Novella Worthy Publishing  Litfuse, Worthy Publishing, and Cynthia Ruchti are pleased to bring you Christmas a little early this year. Christmas takes a very different turn when the guests of honor break up instead of announcing their engagement. Trapped with his family, they learn that love looks different than either imagined. Both in their eighties, Dodie and Wilson Binder celebrate every Christmas as if it were their last. This year, their grandson Micah is planning to ask his girlfriend, Katie, to marry him so they can celebrate with the whole family. But things go very wrong when she says, "no." Now they are stuck. Too many people, too much snow, and too little room should be a recipe for disaster. But sometimes too much is just  enough. Especially when it's Christmas.      Meet the Author Cynthia Ruchti tells stories "hemmed in hope." She's the award-winning author

Homiletics: Revelation 1

Contents ( not sentence, direct verbiage from Scripture ):   Where?                                                                 Who? 1 1a Revelation from JC, G gave Him to show servants what must soon take place 2 1b-2 He sending angel to John who testifies everything saw: word of G, testimony of JC 3 3 Blest=who reads aloud this prophecy & those who hear/take to heart bec time=near 4 4 Jn to 7 chrchs o’Asia: grace/peace to u frm who is/was/is to come& 7 Spirits b4 throne 5 5a & JC, faithful witness, 1 st born frm dead, ruler of kings of earth; 6 5b-6 to who luvs/freed us frm sins by his blood/made us kingdom & priests to serve G 7 7 Look he coming w/clouds, every eye see him, all ppls mourn bec of him 8 8 I Alpha/Omega says G, who is/was/is to come, Almighty 9 9 I Jn, your bro/companion i

My Identity in Christ #4 - I have access to God's Wisdom

Now that my Bible Study group has finished Priscilla Shirer’s Armor of God study, I need to keep moving in the right direction and I’m not ready to pick up another Bible study because I haven’t applied all I want to apply to my life from this study, yet.   Also, my prayer request lately has been that I would live like I believe God’s promises and how much He loves me.   So, I am beginning a series of blog posts taken from the list Priscilla included in her 6 th week of Bible study regarding our identity and inheritance in Christ.   I pray these reflections will open your eyes to how much God loves you.   Read them as if you wrote them.   Meditate on them.   God bless you. I have access to God’s Wisdom - My Identity in Christ James 1:5 tells me I have access to God’s wisdom.   If I lack wisdom, I should ask and God will give it generously.   “If” I lack wisdom?   Oh, boy, do I lack wisdom!   Sometimes, it’s about a decision I must make.   Sometimes, it’s about a difficult con

“The Five Times I Met Myself” by James L. Rubart

The Five Times I Met Myself by James L. Rubart    Contemporary Fiction Thomas Nelson  Litfuse, Thomas Nelson, and James L. Rubart are thrilled to offer James's new book, The Five Times I Met Myself , for review. Fans of It's a Wonderful Life and Andy Andrews' stories will love The Five Times I Met Myself . What if you met your twenty-three-year-old self in a dream? What would you say? Brock Matthews' once promising life is unraveling. His coffee company. His marriage. So when he discovers his vivid dreams---where he encounters his younger self---might let him change his past mistakes, he jumps at the chance. The results are astonishing, but also disturbing. Because getting what Brock wants most in the world will force him to give up the one thing he doesn't know how to let go . . . and his greatest fear is that it's already too late. Advance Praise A powerfully redemptive story with twists and turns that had me glued to every page. Wit

Homiletics: Genesis 11:1-9

Contents ( not sentence, direct verbiage from Scripture ):   Where?                                                                 Who? 1 1 Now whole world   had 1 lang/common speech 2 2 As ppl moved east, found plain in Shinar/settled there 3 3a They said: “come let’s make bricks & bake them thoroughly” 4 3b used brick instead of stone, tar for mortar 5 4   “let’s build city w/twr to heavens, make name 4 selves or be scattered over earth” 6 5 L came down to see city/tower ppl bldg 7 6 L: if as 1 ppl spkg same lang they begun do this, nothing they plan be imposs for them 8 7 Let’s go   down, confuse lang so they not understd ea other 9 8 So L scattered them over all earth & they stopped bldg city 10 9a