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  • Really?

      Hey, I'm all for nursing babies. Not for bare-breasted in public feedings so that any and all can see and hear the slurping, sucking sounds of hungry infants. But if you've seen the upcoming cover of TIME magazine, this is just not right. I don't care. It's. Just. Not. Right. No. That's no "toddler".…

  • Watch and be blessed . . .

      If you can watch this without bawling, you're a bigger person than me – or maybe smaller . . .   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihGCj5mfCk8&sns=fb   God, your heart must weep, but your joy knows who will come to you. Who you will take home to the place where suffering is no more. Your arms extended, your…

  • Submerged . . . in so many ways

      The third book in the CFBA Tour for May is Dani Pettrey's debut novel Submerged, Book One in the Alaskan Courage Series, published by Bethany House. You can learn more about Dani here.                       Bailey Craig forces herself to return to the place she never hoped to see again but must because of…

  • What I would do . . .

      . . . if I could. It's not that I absolutely want to do these things. In fact, I've done them already in my lifetime. They offered pleasure for the moments of indulging them. Not so much afterward. So I say whimsically, I would do the following things if they weren't harmful to me.…

  • Only . . .The Soul Saver

                                  The CFBA Tour presents Dineen Miller's first novel The Soul Saver published by Barbour Publishing, Inc., and a fiction partner to Dineen's co-authored (with Lynn Donovan) non-fiction book Winning Him Without Words: 10 Keys to Thriving in Your Spiritually Mismatched Marriage. Dineen Miller is just about the sweetest, most committed Christian I've…

  • Sunday’s Offerings

      I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish. That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are at Rome. I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes:…

  • ****Political Update****

      From Newsmax:   SEALs: Obama Taking Credit for bin Laden 'Cheap Shot' by Martin Gould Current and former US Navy SEALs have joined the attacks on President Barack Obama for attempting to take credit for killing Osama bin Laden and using them and Special Forces members as 'ammunition' for his campaign. Author and former…

  • Another great cover . . .

                                           Congratulations, Mike. Terrific cover.   Father, please continue to instruct Mike, to fill him with stories, and touch his heart as only you can do. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.  

  • Say hello to Normandie Fischer.

      Normandie Fischer, my wonderful cyber-friend, can wear many "hats", literally and figuratively, if she so chooses. She's a sailor of oceans, a sculptor, a writer, an editor and self-proclaimed Grammar Nazi, and the Executive Editor at Wayside Press (www.wayside-press.com). She's represented by Agent Terry Burns and her first novel Becalmed (working title) has recently received a contract. Visit Normandie's lovely website here: http://normandiefischer.com/. This is a recent…

  • Needing a . . . Travelers Rest

      For the first week in May, 2012, the CFBA Tour presents Ann Tatlock's Travelers Rest published by Bethany House. The elegant sepia cover gives the reader an invitation to partake of the beauty and pain of this touching story.                    Twenty-five year old Jane Morrow defies her fiancé's wish that she not come…