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Looking In the Window: Happy Valentine's Day from Nine Authors

"...But the greatest of these is love."  (I Cor.: 13 - 13) Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Prism Book Group’s Love Is Series... “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails...” I Corinthians 13: 4 - 8 Nine authors each chose one of these characteristics of love to write about, so there are nine novellas in the Love Is... Series.  Check out each book in the series  here   Mine is "it (love) is not easily angered." Look for it  here Wishing you a Valentine's Day and a life filled with love.

Looking Out the Window: Talking Love with Sugan Baganz, Introducing The Baron's Blunder

You would think the author of countless romance stories would find it easy to write one out of her own life. But it’s not. Growing up, I would walk home and look up to heaven, spin around, and wonder if God was taking my picture. Did He care for my overly-sensitive, hurting and lonely heart? All a teacher had to do was look at me wrong and I’d burst into tears until sixth grade when I learned to hide my pain. The sweetest love story is when, after years of sensing God’s call to me, I finally understood that I could respond. That he was waiting for me to do so! James 4:8 says “Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. (NASB)” Really? He wasn’t some distant King high on a thrown beyond my reach. I first came to understand this at a Campus Life/Youth for Christ meeting. For weeks I had begged some friends to let me come to a meeting. They seemed happy. They had something I didn’t. And they would go to concerts for groups like . . . Petra, who I had never heard of.

Looking In The Window: Breaking Barriers, Book Number Eight in Prism Book Group's Love Is...Series

I don't usually blog about my books, but this one is part of a special series, Prism Book Group's Love Is...Series. From Prism Book Group   A blog about Breaking Barriers When I was in college I used to run into an atheist in the small cafe where we gathered for Coca-Colas, hamburgers and French fries after class. I tried to avoid him, because he always hopped over to my table and started an argument about my faith. Perhaps he comes to mind on the release day of Breaking Barriers for several reasons. One, he was angry at me because I am a Christian. Even though today I can’t recall which verses he used, he’d take passages from the Bible and try to make me say they weren’t true. When I wouldn’t, he’d retort with a scientific argument and claim it had to be right. The second reason he comes to mind—it was the mention of God’s love that finally silenced him. One day I grew so frustrated I asked, “If there’s no God, where does love come from? Why don’t you mix

Looking Out the Window: The Next Book in the Love Is...Series, The Crux of Honor by Paula Mowery

  We’re told in Scripture that God is love. He definitely proved His kind of love is an unconditional and undeserved type through sending His Son to die for our sins. Some love isn’t hard to conjure. God just helps us to enhance it. For example, I am still head-over-heels in love with my husband of twenty-six years. But through God’s Word and leading, I’ve learned to love my husband more like God planned for a wife to love her husband. When my little girl was born, I was in love, even though it took a lot to get her here. But God has shown me how to love my daughter through example and discipline. I struggled with infertility issues before finally conceiving my only daughter. My bitterness heightened each time I would hear about a young woman or girl who conceived out of wedlock and by accident. I cried out to God that this wasn’t fair. I wanted a baby and would care for that child and love that child, giving her a mother and a father. Some years later I was approac

Looking Out the Window: Lisa Lickel Talks about Love and Everything about You, the Fifth Book in Prism Book Group's Love Is...Series

  From the time boys became more than “tag” targets I was never without someone of the opposite sex to hang out with, call on the phone, escort me to dances or movies, even when Mom was the chauffeur. I was a drama queen flirt, histrionic friend, and disingenuous church group groupie. I’d love to say it changed in an instant when as a middle teen the Holy Spirit provided the answer to that infinite question of whether Christ was for real. Decades later, I am still working out who I am on many levels. That story won’t get the final edit until it’s over. In between, I went to college and joined not one, but two Christian groups, fell in love with the music, studying anything and everything, and the boy with the wispy blond mustache and highwater pants from one of the faith groups who prayed with me for John Denver’s soul. Seriously. We won’t know for a while if poor John received the benefit of our intervention. When the mustached boy didn’t run screaming after meeting m

Looking Out the Window: Prism Book Group's Love Is...Celebration Continues with Books and Prizes. Book Number Two, Clue Into Kindness by Gay N. Lewis

In honor of the start of Prism’s new Love Is… series – a string of romance novellas based on 1 Corinthians 13:4-6 – we are inviting you to BE OUR VALENTINE! We will be giving away a Hershey’s Chocolate Lover’s Square Tower (value $46.96) as well as the entire Love Is… series as it releases (in format of choice including ebook or print) to one lucky winner! Two runner-ups will receive the first Love Is… book in print (containing the first several novellas) and a $10 gift certificate.  To enter, hop on over and like our Facebook page. Then post a message to our  Facebook page and tell us what you feel is an important quality of love! For a second entry, join our mailing list. The sign-up box is on the top right of our web site From Gay N. Lewis A Whirlwind Relationship At the age of seventeen, my boyfriend presented me with an engagement ring. I said yes and then wondered what I’d done. My fiancé was good-looking, charming, and he cared for me, but our goals were d