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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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Triplets graduated from high school
Our triplets graduated from high school this May! All with wonderful grades. We’re so proud of them.
Reinventing Rachel, a review
Californian Rachel Westing has been a good Christian girl, doing all the things she’s expected to do, and God’s responded with good things for her. Then all of a sudden everything comes crashing down.
Easter balloons at our church
A video of the Easter balloons at our church, featuring the youth group including my 18-year-old triplet sons.
Softly and Tenderly by Sara Evans with Rachel Hauck, a review
Jade lives in Tennesse in a small town dominated by her in-laws, under pressure to get pregnant from her lawyer husband. But she keeps having miscarriages. Then she finds out her in-laws’ marriage is a wreck under the surface. Her husband tries to beat his addiction to perscription pain killers. Her mother, who has come to stay with her, is dying of leukemia. It sounds like she’s living a Southern soap opera.
God’s Friday
Today is God’s Friday, which somehow turned into Good Friday in common English. But it’s still God’s Friday, as is every day.
Disappointed
I picked up an ebook at Amazon for my Kindle for a few dollars. It was tagged as “Christian Fiction,” and it looked like a nice romance with a supernatural element, just what I want to read.
I got into the book, and found it to be well written, with well developed characters and prose that kept the story moving. Then we got to the romance part, and WHEW! too steamy for me!
Lost Mission by Athol Dickson, a review
The two stories, while seemingly not similar at first, become more and more alike. A small three-paneled painting is common to both stories, as is a certain character, described as an Indian with shining hair, who I think must be an angel.
Was Rahab saved by her good works?
By faith we are saved, not by good works. It’s the cry of the Reformation, and it makes a lot of sense. If we are able to save ourselves through works, Jesus died in vain. But in the book of James, it sounds like Rahab’s deed saved her. Let’s look a little closer.
Nothing but Trouble by Susan May Warren, a review
PJ Sugar returns to her small town in Minnesota after wandering the United States for 10 years. Is she still the impulsive, passionate teen who loved the wild child Boone and helped set the country club afire on prom night, or has she grown up now?
Ask, seek, knock
It’s a funny thing about miracles. You need to ask for them. If you don’t, they don’t happen. If you do, maybe they happen, maybe they don’t. It’s all up to God, whose ways are higher than our ways and whose thoughts are higher than our thoughts.
Ask, seek, knock
It’s a funny thing about miracles. You need to ask for them. If you don’t, they don’t happen. If you do, maybe they happen, maybe they don’t. It’s all up to God, whose ways are higher than our ways and whose thoughts are higher than our thoughts.
Deeper Water by Robert Whitlow, a review
Robert Whitlow is a practicing attorney who likes to write novels. This book begins a series called Tides of Truth, set in Georgia and focusing on the character Tami Taylor, the product of a fiercely conservative homeschooling family that lives in the boonies.