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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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Giving thanks by Joy DeKok
Sometimes I want a new miracle – a diet that works even if I don’t work it, a cure for female hair loss, a cure for diabetes, and politicians who will do what they promise. I want God to show me what He’s been up to.
MLK day: how am I helping the kids in the projects?
I went to a Martin Luther King commemoration yesterday. The speaker, an associate professor of architecture at Washington University, challenged us all. Bob Hansman, who is white, is an artist and activist who set up his art studio in the Clinton-Peabody Housing Project and challenges his students to work there with him.
A free ebook: a drama of first-century Rome
Our featured free ebook today is The Master’s Wall by Sandi Rog, published by DeWard in 2010, Christian fiction set in first century Rome. At Amazon it’s got an average rating of five stars on 55 customer reviews.
What would you wear to a hobbit birthday party?
My friend and coffee shop proprietor is planning a hobbit birthday bash for Sept. 22. I have a long time to plan what I’m going to wear. But I’m puzzling over it. What do you suggest?
The goat story
We were surprised though that one of the goats had leaped out of the pen and came to greet us personally, like a dog. We went to find the other one, which was still bleating. Well, turns out he had his head stuck in the fence. He wasn’t in big trouble yet, but he wasn’t happy.
What is Christian fiction?
One of my blog readers emailed me and asked me to define Christian fiction. “Is it a story that doesn’t go directly against any Biblical teaching? Does the story have to teach some Christian lesson? Is it simply a story without all of the gratuitous sex and violence of the natural world?”
A free ebook, Christian supernatural
Nephilim Genesis of Evil by Renee Pawlish is our featured free ebook for today. This suspenseful tale picks up the Biblical mystery about the nephilim, a giant race born of angels and men, mentioned just once in Genesis.
Rooms by James L. Rubart, a review
Micah Taylor’s a successful young software multimillionaire, driven by tragedy and abuse in his childhood. He’s got a great girlfriend, an 80-hour-a-week job, and opportunity to travel. But something is missing.
Angels? Protective “butterfly people” of Joplin
Little Eli Morgan, 5, was found mysteriously wrapped in a carpet after his mother and four children, including Eli, were blown out of the hallway where they had taken refuge. There wasn’t a scratch on him, but it took his family a little while to find him. Did an angel wrap him up?
A free ebook, historical fiction: Scotland in 1565
Child of the Mist by Kathleen Morgan, a Christian fiction suspense with romance elements, is our featured free ebook today. You can download it free from either Amazon.com for your Kindle, or at Christianbook.com for all ebook formats. You can read it on your computer, if you don’t have an e-reader.
Author Staci Stallings on the little girl who wanted two pieces of candy
She said, “I just feel so greedy wanting it all.” As if the Holy Spirit opened a lesson book, she went on, “It’s like the other day. I was at the store, and there was this little girl in front of me in line. She walked up with two pieces of candy. The cashier rang it up and said, ‘That’ll be $1.93.’ Unfortunately all this little girl had was $1.
Zeke Lam on dealing with disappointments
We have a guest speaking to us today. He’s Zeke Lam, author of the nonfiction book subMission, talking to us about dealing with life’s disappointments.