Sister Wives, the second season, premiers tonight on TLC.   After seeing a few promo commercials, I began to ask myself some questions. Questions I am sure many women have asked. What could a woman hope to achieve in a plural marriage? What is the reason why a woman would engage in a plural marriage? This [...]

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Saint Patrick was a Christian missionary to Ireland. He was born in AD 387 and died in AD 493. At 16, Patrick was captured by Irish raiders, and was taken to Ireland as a slave. After six years, he escaped, and returned to his family in Britain, where he entered the Church, and eventually became [...]

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Daniel Darling has his finger on the pulse of today’s technology. In his newest book, iFaith:  Connecting with God in the 21st Century, he speaks to the “card carrying members of the instant generation” among us with sound biblical advice on the basics of Christianity. In iFaith, Dan Darling uses the language of social media [...]

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The newest “Noir Bizarre” novel from T. L. Hines, The Falling Away, is a supernatural suspense similar to his previous novels Waking Lazarus and Faces in the Fire. It’s filled with humor, insanity, and a new take on the biblical phrase ‘..the falling away...’ from II Thessalonians 2:3. Dylan Runs Ahead is a Native American [...]

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“To the pure you show yourself pure, but to the wicked you show yourself hostile.” - II Samuel 22:27 (NLT) – It is attributed to the Greek Philosopher, Plato, the idea of beauty being in the eye of the beholder. The concept is that what we see is largely based on what our reality is. [...]

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By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems. And, by abortion, the father is told that he does not have any responsibility for the child he has brought into the world. That father is likely to put other women into the same trouble. So [...]

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This weeks list of free books for your Kindle, NOOK, or Sony eReader include works from these authors: Rob Stennett, Nancy Rue,  Linda Dillow,  and Karen Hancock. Free offers from previous weeks (but still free) include books from:   Kathleen Morgan,, Nicole Young, Beverly Lewis, Judith Miller, Siri Mitchell, Jill Eileen Smith, Steve Monsma,  R. C. [...]

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This week’s list of Christian  Book  Giveaways include fourteen books from authors such as: Deborah, Kinnard, Elisa Maria Crites, Anne Patrick, Anne Greene,  Liz Huggins Clark, Ann Voskamp, Dandy Daily Mackall, Ann Gaylia O’Barr, Marty Garardier, Shaunti Feldhahn (two), Margaret Brownley, Gail Gaymer Martin, Eddie Jones, Robin Caroll, Stephanie Morrill, and Sharlene MacLaren. There are [...]

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The Vessel Project is happy to offer David Platt’s book Radical:  Taking Back Your Faith From the American Dream for the March Book Giveaway. Radical is a New York Times Bestseller and heralds the hope that American’s return to Christianity in it’s truest form. Here’s what others are saying about Radical… “In his compelling new [...]

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“Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.” Have you ever found yourself in a point in your life where you asked [...]

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Looking for a fresh new Christian read?  Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group, offers ten new titles in March from these authors:  Judith Miller, Charles Stone, Lauraine Snelling, Siri Mitchell, Tracie Peterson, Philip Carlson, Nancy Williams, and William Marty. To read more about each book, click the book cover or the book [...]

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Featured Review by Daniel Darling It used to be that finding the best children’s Bible was hard, because there are so many wonderful and good ones on the market. But that’s no longer the case, since Sally Lloyd Jones released, The Jesus Storybook Bible. This book has been highly recommended. I first heard of it [...]

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Featured Review by Tamara K. Fickas Just over a year ago Dan Woolley and David Hames headed to Haiti. Their goal was to shoot video and photographic footage to highlight the work that Compassion International does in Haiti. Both men were passionate about that work. What started out as a beautiful, productive day ended in [...]

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“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those [...]

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“Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.” – Psalm 119:9 Wherewithal – have you ever used this word? The King James Version is not written in a contemporary style but the words it uses are distinct.  For instance, in our verse today, wherewithal means how, why [...]

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This weeks list of free books for your Kindle, NOOK, or Sony eReader include works from these authors: Maureen Lang, David Levy, Joel Kilpatrick, and Jerry Jenkins. Free offers from previous weeks (but still free) include books from:  Lynn Austin, Kathryn Cushman, Lisa Wingate, Suzanne Woods Fisher, Janice Thompson, Lysa TerKeurst, Virginia Smith, Lorena McCourtney, [...]

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“Another thought-provoking, drama driven novel from Charles Martin.” Having read several of Charles Martin books (Wrapped in Rain, Chasing Fireflies, When Crickets Cry, and The Dead Don’t Dance), I purchased this book before I even read the back cover or storyline. There are a few authors that I can trust like that. The Mountain Between [...]

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Featured Review by Tamara Fickas There’s nothing like a book that you pick up and can’t put down until you have absorbed every word, scene, and chapter. This is the kind of fiction I want to write. And, this is the kind of fiction that I love to read. This Fine Life by Eva Marie [...]

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“A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.” - Proverbs 17:4 - Let’s take a look at this. Picture yourself tomorrow morning at your office or workplace. There you are minding your own business, mentally prioritizing your To Do’s, and say you go for your first [...]

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This weeks list of free books for your Kindle, NOOK, or Sony eReader include works from these authors: Richard Mabry, Lisa Harris, Jill Marie Landis, Joseph Walker, Lynn Hodges, Sue Buchanan, Nicole Baart, Kevin Leman, Lynn Austin, Kathryn Cushman, Lisa Wingate, Dwight L. Moody, Suzanne Woods Fisher, Janice Thompson, Kristi Holl, Matt Mikalatos, Rene Gutteridge, [...]

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The focus of this weeks Five Things is Austin Carty,  author of  High Points and Lows: Life, Faith, and Figuring It All Out, Plume Publishers, January 2010. If you’ve read his website or watched him on the CBS television series Survivor, you might know his background. He has since become a highly sought after inspirational speaker [...]

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For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.” - II Timothy 3:6-7 – The words ‘captive‘and ‘silly‘are not kind words. I am certain that no woman considers [...]

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This week’s list of Christian  Book  Giveaways include books from several authors and several websites. Click on the book covers to go directly to the site that is offering the book giveaway.  Please note that leaving a comment on this post does not enter you into any of the contest. You must enter the contest [...]

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Featured Review by Melinda Lancaster As the aunt of a niece, with Down syndrome, this book grabbed me at the prologue. The storyline flowed smoothly, in Shades of Morning, and I quickly was lost in the lives of Marnie,Taylor, Emmit, and their friends. As the story flashes back from past to present intrigue is built regarding “the [...]

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You’ve met Nicholas Mackenzie before. His words are those of the argumentative atheist.  Banking on his intellectual ability, he prides himself in relentlessly engaging Christians in theological debates. It is his vitamin of choice, his adrenaline rush. In truth, it is his defense mechanism. When you learn of his history, you understand why. His son [...]

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