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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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The Scarlet Thread by Francine Rivers, a review
This book traces the stories of two women, separated by 150 years or so. The pioneer, Mary Kathryn, is the ancestor of the modern woman, Sierra, who finds Mary Kathryn’s handmade quilt and diary.
Miracles seem more prevalent in 3rd world: why?
Why does it seem that miracles are more prevalent in the third world? I have seen and experienced some here in America, but they don’t happen anywhere near as often as I ask for them.
Jesus healing teens at Disney Land
Members of the youth group at Bethel Church in Redding, California (near the Oregon border) trekked downstate to Disney Land. Their purpose wasn’t fun, but to find other kids to pray for for healing.
Two blind men healed in Mozambique
It was the summer of 2006. A blind man, a Muslim, asked an American woman in Mozambique for money. She prayed for him, but he wasn’t healed. So she gave him some money and suggested he come to the church service on Sunday. He came and brought a friend, also blind, also Muslim.
Dead man raised
A man in Nigeria at a gathering fell to the floor, in cardiac arrest. Someone pulled out a video camera. Those around him performed CPR for some minutes, and then gave up. Then the preacher took over.
Piano student gets pain relief
My friend Cynthia Harris teaches piano. She also loves to pray for healing for people. Recently, a piano student asked for prayer for severe pain in the girl’s neck and spine.
Man crushed under tractor-trailer is healthy and well
This amazing video tells the true story of Bruce Van Natta, who was crushed beneath a tractor-trailer when it fell off its jack. Five arteries were severed; his spleen and other organs were crushed. Death seemed certain.
After 23 years in wheelchair, gospel singer walks
For 23 years, Delia Roman Knox was the gospel singer in a wheelchair. A drunk driver had put her there at the age of 25. She was paralyzed from the waist down. Many had prayed for her over the years, but two months ago the time was right. At a revival meeting, she walked! And has been walking since. Even the evening news took notice.
The Yada Yada Prayer Group, a review
This is the award-winning start of a seven-book series about a multi-cultural prayer group in Chicago that started at a women’s prayer conference.
A case of depression
My friend N. returned to the St. Louis area to live with her mother, following divorce. She was despondent. In fact, she spent a year “in bed”–not going out, not communicating with anyone, oppressed by darkness.
An “impossible” coincidence
But someone stole her wallet. In the wallet were her credit cards and her driver’s license, among other things. The credit card situation could be handled, but the driver’s license posed a problem. In order to get a new driver’s license she would have to come back to St. Louis on a weekday, meaning losing two or three days of the precious intensive summer school instruction. That would set her way behind. She prayed about it.
When we ignore the power of the Holy Spirit, we are poor as a result
Prayer:
We need to do more listening and less talking. If you’re like me, you need to lose the laundry list of items to ask God for, or at least lose it for a while. Instead we need to sit and wait, and hear what He will say to us. This is after repenting of our sins of course.