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As a homeschooling veteran, I review middle-grade stories to help parents, librarians, and teachers choose good books.
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Free ebook: a suspense novel, Deadly Aim
Our featured free ebook for today is a Christian suspense mystery called Deadly Aim by Patricia H. Rushford. The book received 4.4 out of 5 stars on 10 customer reviews at Amazon, and is published by a respected Christian publisher, Revell.
Growing in faith
I think I’ve been coasting through life lately. I’m contemplating what the apostle Paul wrote in Romans 12:1-2 and wondering how it’s challenging me to grow today.
Discuss The Hunger Games with non-Christians
The Christian Research Journal has an article in the current issue (35/02) suggesting believers discuss The Hunger Games with nonChristian friends.
Free Ebook for today: Blue Moon Bay
Blue Moon Bay by Lisa Wingate is our featured free ebook today, available for Kindle and on Christian Book for other formats. It has 4.6 out of 5 stars on 44 reviews on Amazon, and is published by Bethany House, an established Christian publisher.
Where is God in our busyness?
I don’t know about you, but I get so wound up in what I am doing that I forget to talk to God.
Choosing words from Paul the Apostle, Romans 8
Our Romans Bible study has gotten to Romans 8, the last third of the chapter. We were trying to decide which verses to memorize. Want to help me decide?
Light of Eidon by Karen Hancock, a review
Abramm is calling himself Brother Eldrin, and all he wants is to be left alone by his family. But his family isn’t happy about it, not the least because it’s the royal family, and he’s now second in line to the throne. Soon Abramm discovers that the holy orders that have been his life for the past eight years are a front for evil people who want to use him as a puppet.
Firebird by Kathy Tyers, a review
Lady Firebird Angelo was born the third daughter of the queen of her world. That sounds like she might have had an easy life. But the warped rules on her planet dictate that she must die as soon as she drops down to fifth in line to the throne. It’s not just those in the royal family; this happens to the heirs of all the major houses on her planet. She’s a “wastling,” born to be wasted. Her time comes, and Firebird, a pilot, is sent on a suicide mission along with other wastlings. But her enemy saves her life. What can she do now?
Archive, a devotional
Those messy piles are the remnants of my childhood home. I’m compiling the material into an archive, and each time I dig in I learn something new.
Dandelions, gifts from God
Most of all I loved taking my toddlers to the park to pick dandelions. In the spring, there were lots of beautiful flowers in neighbors’ yards that they longed to touch, pull, pick, and generally destroy. I had to steer them away. They couldn’t admire them without touching them, so we had to go somewhere else.
Free e-book: Code Triage (Mercy Hospital) by Candace Calvert
Our suggested e-book for today is Code Triage (Mercy Hospital Series) by Candace Calvert, free both at Kindle and Christian Book Distributors.
Spring has sprung
Deuteronomy 32:2 says “Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.” Even though we didn’t have an intense winter this year in Georgia, I am thirsty for what spring has to offer. Spring makes me want to write and read and socialize and do all sorts of neglected projects around the house. God’s spring (His teaching) waters my soul just like the real dew nourishes the grass and plants.