by Starr | Oct 5, 2019 | Author Snapshot
As a youth, best-selling author, speaker, journalist, and radio host Dianne Barker dreamed of big-city life but never left her birthplace. Today, she and her husband of fifty-four years love calling Johnson City, Tennessee home. Her father was fifty-eight years...
by Starr | Oct 4, 2019 | Simply As I See It
Little is much in the hands of the Lord. Give him what you’ve got! “Do not despise these small beginnings, for the LORD rejoices to see the work begin.” Zechariah 4:10, NLT
by Starr | Sep 28, 2019 | Author Snapshot
North Carolina multiple award-winning author, Lisa Carter was born into a rich cultural heritage when summer evenings were spent on wraparound porches affirming life, faith, and things that tie people together as family. She writes contemporary romance and...
by Starr | Sep 21, 2019 | Author Snapshot
Ohio non-fiction author, Debby Thompson was born in Greenwood, Mississippi. She grew up raising sheep, and though not the first to be called from the sheep pen to serve God, she’s in good company. “I believed as a third-grade girl that God wanted me to be a...
by Starr | Sep 18, 2019 | Devotions, Simply As I See It
“If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.” —Psalm 139:9-10, NIV Are you a good passenger? I hate to admit it, but I can be a Nervous Nellie when someone else is...
by Starr | Sep 16, 2019 | Keeper Book Reviews
Realistic and poignant portrayal of love and war. I’ve not read a lot of Civil War romances but after reading Sandra Merville Hart’s captivating novella, A Stranger on my Land, I was anxious to read her novel, A Rebel in My House. It did not disappoint. This realistic...
by Starr | Sep 14, 2019 | Author Snapshot
Mission-minded author and Christian humorist, Laurie Yost, has ziplined over rain forests, eaten cow udder, and climbed mountains in Mexico, but the adventure her heart desires and thrives on is to share Jesus with everyone she meets. The genesis of her...
by Starr | Sep 7, 2019 | Author Snapshot
As a child, Christian Suspense author, Adam Blumer dreamed of being a ventriloquist. “I had a “dummy” named Andy. I made up a few skits to do with him at church, but then I got braces and could no longer talk the same through my teeth. Andy sadly went...
by Starr | Sep 6, 2019 | Author Snapshot
THANK YOU to everyone who entered my Author Snapshot Giveaway! I appreciate all of your shares and blog subscriptions. The 3 Lucky Winners have been chosen and are listed above. I’ll contact each winner by email soon to receive your book selection from one...
by Starr | Sep 4, 2019 | Simply As I See It
That tree is dead. It should be taken out. Cut down. Destroyed. It mars the landscape. Is an unsightly distraction from the beauty that surrounds it. Then— a whisper rises in my spirit. “Oh, but you’re wrong. Its towering, leafless branches offer a resting...
