"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you…

                  Five of the most unusual things in my life . . . (all before meeting the Lord Jesus Christ) After one full year of college, I decided to go to work and save my money to travel to Great Britain and Europe (hoping to meet actor…

 (Originally posted on May 24th, 2012; "Goin' to the . . . Blue Hole Back Home")                            Back in 2008 David C. Cook published the Christy Award winner Blue Hole Back Home by Joy Jordan-Lake. For some the story, voice, and theme are reminiscent of…

    Two of my most favorite characters ever. Love them. Look forward to the new NCIS-LA season.    Father, only you save souls. May there be many! In the Name of Jesus, Amen.  

               Tribute to the late great Glenn Campbell, my favorite of his many tunes.   Father, you took Glenn home. Thank you for sharing his talent and life with us for so many years. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.  

                           Karin Kaufman is back in Juniper Grove with another cozy mystery in Book 3 At Death's Door.  The elderly longtime friend of mystery writer Rachel Stowe's neighbor Julia is having a Thanksgiving feast at her elegant home. Her guests are familiar with…

     Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: "The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.      "Then he sent some…

                                                                  OR                  The feel of a print book, turning the physical pages, or the tap…

(CFBA Tour Book Originally posted on May 6th, 2013 and featured again on March 23rd of this year)                                If you've read some of my posts, you know one of my complaints about Christian fiction is that so often we get…

                             I've said it before and I'll say it again: Karin Kaufman is the contemporary Queen of Cozy Mysteries. Small town friends and amateur sleuths, a pre-Halloween scavenger hunt murder of a vindictive woman, old high school friends who've become enemies, and…