God with Us Devotional

God with Us: 365 Devotions on the Person and Work of Christ is a great devotion if you are looking to grow in your faith and to grow deeper in the word. Each devotional provides bite size insight into the teachings of many well-known theologians, pastors, and Christian writers such as John Calvin, St. Auguestine, Jonathan Edwards, Diedrich Bonhoeffer, and […]

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Book Review: One Word For Today Devotional

This 90-day devotional, One Word for Today for Spirit Filled Living, is a very interesting and unique idea. I really enjoyed the thought of focusing on one word for the day and how it relates to our spiritual life. Each word has a scripture, suggestion on how to use it to focus on God, and ends with suggestions on how […]

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Book Review: Called Out

In Called Out, former ABC news correspondent Paula Faris provides a real and candid look about why she walked away from her dream job, in search of her true calling. She shares her very personal and real journey through her fears, burn out and family struggles to make a very difficult decision to walk away and step into the calling […]

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Book Reviews: The Runaway Bride

Arabella Lawrence flees to British Columbia on a bride ship in The Runaway Bride.  She is determined not to make a bad choice, as two very different men via for her hand.  Lt. Richard Drummond is a Naval officer while Peter Kelly is the town’s baker, both interested in the wealthy young woman. While Arabella struggles with her own fears, […]

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Book Review: Secrets of the Happy Soul

Katie Orr does a wonderful job of inspiring and uplifting in her book Secrets of the Happy Soul. As someone who struggles with depression, this book provides tips and strategies to help me cope and process events better.  Whether you struggle with melancholy or need a pick me up, you’ll enjoy the lessons and real life examples provided to incorporate […]

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Book Review: Before I Call You Mine

Lauren Bailey is tired of one heartache after another. She sets out to fulfill her greatest desire to become a mother.  However, she’s blindsided by substitute teacher, Joshua Avery. He relentlessly pursues her, until she has to choose between her two greatest desires. Can she have both or will she have to let go of one for the other? Nicole […]

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Book Review: More Than We Remember

In More than We Remember by Christian Suzann Nelson three women’s lives collide on one night. Addison Kilbourn’s husband is involved in a car accident leaving a woman dead and more secrets than answers. Emilia Cruz is determined to see justice carried out, but part of her drive hides the pain she carries of caring for her own injured husband […]

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Book Review: Sweet On You

After following her sister’s journey’s to love and unraveling family mysteries, it is finally chocolate shop owner, Britt Bradford’s turn. Sweet on You is the story of Britt Bradford and her best friend and best selling author, Zander. He has been away for eighteen months and returns upon the death of his uncle. However, everything isn’t as it seems and […]

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Book Review: The Number of Love

A war, a loss, intrigue and numerous twists and turns. The Number of Love by Roseanna M. White contains all this and more. Both Margot and Drake are well rounded characters you can’t help but to love and root for. I loved watching their love story unfold. The book is very well researched and takes us back to the time […]

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Book Review: Breaking Anxiety’s Grip

Do you struggle with anxiety or stress? I do. More than I’d like to admit. Dr. Michelle Bengtson‘s book Breaking Anxiety’s Grip How to Reclaim the Peace God Promises tackles these difficult subjects in a compassionate and understanding manner. Dr. Michelle often uses her own experiences with battling anxiety in her book. She also incorporates Biblical principal’s into each chapter. […]

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Book Review: King’s Shadow

Have you ever wondered what life was like in King Herod’s court? Wait no longer. This book will reveal all the intrigue, loyalty and duplicity in his court. Two women live in King’s Herod’s palace. His only sister, Salome, and her handmaid, Zara. Both struggle to survive where spies, treachery and conspiracy lingers at every corner. Both women struggle to […]

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Book Review: Overcoming Fear

As someone who has struggled with fear and anxiety, I really enjoyed Dawn de Silva’s book Overcoming Fear: The Supernatural Strategy to Live in Freedom. She provides great insight and lessons from both her own struggles, as well as her clients. She does a great job of breaking down fear and how the enemy uses it to prevent us from […]

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Book Review: Whose Waves These Are

Annie Bliss is called back to Ansel-by-the Sea when GrandBob, the man who helped her through the hardest summer of her life, needs help. She is greeted with a mystery: a wall of heavy boxes hiding in his home. Memories of stone ruins and times gone by greet her as she digs through the ruble to make sense of the […]

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Book Review: Far Side of the Sea

During World War I, Lt. Colin Mabry receives a message from a woman who saved his life and he believed dead. When he arrived in war-torn France, instead of finding the woman he expected {Jewel}, he met someone claiming to be her half-sister, Johanna. Colin and Johanna set out to find Jewel, amidst intrigue, mystery and war. They travel throughout […]

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Women, Rise Up!

In Women, Rise up! Cindy Jacobs shares her heart and experience to answer the call on our lives.  Whether this means working in the secular world or in ministry, the struggles are real. The book is well written and the subheadings are short, making it easy to break the chapter into smaller bites as time allows.  She gave me a […]

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Book Review: Accidental Guardian

The Accidental Guardian is a story of learning to forgive, let go and trust God when your life is turned upside down. Deborah Harkness and her sister, Gwen, are accompanying a family on the wagon train west.  However, Deb, Gwen and the two children in their charge are the only survivors to a brutal massacre.  They are left among the […]

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Movie Review: I Can Only Imagine

Life has been extremely busy lately, but in need of a break, I finally had the opportunity to see the movie I Can Only Imagine. The song I Can Only Imagine became the first Christian song to go platinum.  The song has touched numerous hearts and lives over the years. The movie, I Can Only Imagine, shares how the song […]

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Book Review: His Other Life

After the death of her father, Melanie McCabe was surprised to discover her father had been married to Hazel before he married her mother.  On top of that, she was even more surprised to discover that this unknown first wife, had a connection with Tennessee Williams, the famous playwright. Melanie set out to discover about her father’s other life, before […]

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