Into the Fire

Perhaps the contest rules feel too personal for some. But the dynamite books as a prize should be enough to warrant some guesses, I would think. You must enter now until NOON tomorrow (Wednesday, July 23rd), Pacific Daylight Time, in the comment section. Check yesterday’s review down at the bottom to view contest “rules”. Win both of James Scott Bell’s two newest novels in hard cover: Try Dying and Try Darkness.

Here’s a sample from the sequel to Hope Of Glory:

ONE YEAR LATER . . .

It had been a long drive. He was surprised at how hard it was raining even though that’s all he’d heard about this area from the time he’d mentioned he was thinking of trying out this track clear across the country.
“Hutch, you’re going to hate it, I’m tellin’ ya.” He could still hear his cousin Rhett emphatically telling him and then spitting out his chew and shaking his head. “You’re just gonna hate it. You got plenty of mud caulks?”
Well, he was here, and it was midnight, pitch black, and raining hard enough that he had to put his wipers on the extra fast mode.
“Geez,” he said under his breath.

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This part is not trivia–it’s gut-level life and death.

Each day prayers all around the globe head to heaven for Kristy Dykes and her family. If you’ve followed her battle with GBM brain cancer, you’ve learned along with me how to travel through the valley of the shadow of death with real amazing grace, genuine faith, steadfast hope, sorrow, pain, and a willing spirit to accept healing now . . . or later, permanently. What a journey for this lady of many gifts. She is deeply loved, appreciated, respected, and admired by those close to her and those who’ve never met her such as myself. She’s tough and gentle, true to her Lord and Savior as life ebbs. It’s hard to “watch”, but it is also an honor to see her bravery.

Please continue to pray for the Dykes’ family in the Name of Jesus, Amen.