Peering Through Life's Window

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A Warm Welcome to Regina Andrews Regina shares an interview with Destiny's Designs heroine Lisa. She will give away an E-book of Destiny's Designs to everyone who leaves a comment and email address below. Hi Regina, That's so generous. Would you like people to review it? Of course, I would appreciate that, but there are no strings attached. I see. Tell us a little about Destiny's Designs . First of all, thank you so much for hosting me on your lovely blog. I am delighted to be here! It's my pleasure. It is so exciting to share Destiny's Designs with you and your readers. This book actually won the first prize award of ebook of the year in a national contest a few years back. Now I have updated it a bit, and I am so happy that it is also now available in paperback. More good news! Destiny's Designs is the first volume in a brand new series that I am writing called the "Designs of Life" series. I am working on volume ...

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A Warm Welcome To Lisa Lickel To win an e-Book of Everything About You, the prequel to Everything About Us leave a comment and an email address below. Lisa's Devotional Truth Philippians 4:8 (NIV) Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. For the past few years I’ve thought about truth a lot. Our contemporary first-world culture is inundated with information. In societies that treasure personal rights, we extend that right to express ourselves, often in words that irritate and vehemently disagree with the expressions of others. Some of these disagreements we orchestrate for the purpose of distilling acceptable behavior—the “what if the shoe was on the other foot” debate. Other disagreements, the ones that wear blinders while looking down from podiums, expose our souls much like the restless e...

Photo courtesy of Photobucket Jesus lived among the Jews and the gentiles showing us his Gospel of love, telling us how to live in peace and care for each other. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.” (Matthew 22: 37 – 39) Photo courtesy of Photobucket The suffering He endured illustrates how imperfect and cruel the world can be. “Now as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside and said to them, ‘We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death and will turn him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified…’” (Matthew 20: 17 -18) Photo courtesy of Pixabay His crucifixion shows us God’s unconditional love. “In the same way the chief priests, the teac...

A Warm Welcome to Anita Klumpers Anita shares a favorite Bible verse and a yummy recipe handed down from her mother. See below. Hi Anita, lots of writers loved to read as children. What about you? If so, what did you read? YES! I vividly remember reading Little House in the Big Woods in first grade. I moved up to the Bobbsey Twins, Happy Hollisters and Trixie Belden, Nancy Drew books by the truckload. And the biographies my dad made me read to balance out the mystery stories. What inspired you to write this particular book? My editor asked for a novella based on the virtue “Whatever is of good repute” from Philippians 4:8. While visiting Andrew Jackson’s home in Nashville, we watched a duel reenactment, and the idea was born! What do you love about this book? And what do you hope readers will tell others about it? It was fun weaving in the history of the duel and its ramifications to present day. Manderley is a well-meaning sweetheart. Her mother Tara is a dynamo an...

More in-depth descriptions of these books can be found on the ACFW Fiction Finder website . Biblical: Claiming Canaan: Milcah's Journey by Barbara M. Britton -- When the tribal elders make marriage a requirement for claiming her land, Milcah bat Zelophehad must find a betrothed straightaway. The only problem in finding a husband is that all her suitors were slain while conquering the land of Canaan. Men avoid her in order to stay alive. After praying to God to send her a bold suitor, a man from her father's clan plummets from a tree right on top of her. Is this God answering prayer, or a foolish antic by Eli, the war-scarred brother from one of her clan's rival families. Will settling in Canaan sort out Milcah's troubles, or have her woes just begun? (Biblical Fiction from Harbourlight Books [Pelican]) Contemporary Romance: Ryan's Father by June Foster -- The rippling influence of Ryan Reid’s less than moral mother and absent father made a m...