Adventuring Through the Bible
Here is a great resource by Ray Stedman, long time pastor of Pennsacola Bible Church and expository teacher. Adventuring Through the Bible gives you an overview of the entire Bible. This work is easy to understand and wets your appetite for your journey to discovering God’s Word. This book is available free online or you may purchase it via the link below.
Adventuring Through the Bible by Ray Stedman
Ray Stedman’s Website - a treasure trove of teaching on God’s Word
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Harold’s Fairytale
A Picture For Harold’s Room
Messianic Dance ~ Baruch Adonai
Here are a few renditions of Messianic Dance to Baruch Adonai.
The Note
Tonight we watched “The Note” based on Angel Hunt’s “The Note – A Story of Second Chances” on the Hallmark Channel, staring Genie Francis, formerly “Laura” on General Hospital. It was such a wonderful story of redemption, reconciliation, and forgiveness. As I watched this story unfold all I could think of how simple, yet profound, was the message – I love you. All is forgiven. – Dad. This message has been given to us by our Heavenly Father, too. It has made all of the difference in my life, and brought healing and renewal to every broken fragment of my heart.
Book Description –
“En route from New York’s LaGuardia Airport to Tampa International, Flight 848 bursts into flames and crashes into Tampa Bay. For one week, Peyton MacGruder and her fellow reporters cover one of the nation’s worst air disasters in years with overwhelming and numbed emotions.
Then a woman Peyton’s never met gives her a plastic bag that washed up behind her house. The bag contains a note, almost certainly from the doomed flight, with a simple yet wrenching message: T- I love you. All is forgiven. -Dad
Combing through the passenger list, Peyton is determined to deliver the note to its proper owner. It’s a quest that will prove as important to Peyton’s own life as to the mysterious T.”
Continue to Carla’s Pathways ~ Journaling the Journey to learn more about the Father’s Love . . .
A Visit With Cherie Adams
On November 3rd nationally acclaimed singer, songwriter and speaker Cherie Adams will be coming to the Women’s Fall Faith Lift at Faith Evangelical Free Church of Waterville, Maine. Cherie’s passion is to share the love of Christ to the brokenhearted through her songs and speaking ministry. I thought I would share with you a recent conversation I had with Cherie.
Read the full interview at Journaling the Journey
Our Great God
Here is an amazing worship song written by Mac Powell of Third Day and recorded by Todd Agnew and Rebecca St. James.
Few songs ever come along that are likened to a hymn. I think this one does exactly that.
Rebecca St. James and Todd Agnew discuss “Our Great God”
Emily Brontë – Wuthering Heights
A great article can be found over at The Guardian entitled:
Emily Brontë hits the heights in poll to find greatest love story
“The passionate romance that proved that ardour can survive Britain’s grimmest landscape and weather has beaten countless steamy successors in a poll of the greatest love stories of all time.
“Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, recounting the doomed affair between sweet Cathy Earnshaw and the brutal outsider Heathcliff, has seen off Shakespeare, Gone With the Wind and everything by Barbara Cartland in a survey which shows the lasting power of classic works”
Anticipation of a Good Book
I’ve read 15 inspirational fiction books so far this year and am now on my 16th. I have already gone past my total from 2006 so I guess you could say I’m on a reading roll. The book I have most anticipated reading has recently been released. So as soon as I’m finished with my current book, I will at last be reading “The Healing Season” by Ruth Axtell Morren.
To fill in the time, I’ve been reading some new (to me) authors while awaiting Ruth’s newest release. I love to read, but as a writer I am now reading to learn to write, as well. At first this was a little distracting, but I have been trying to enjoy both. You know, multi-tasking. These were some good picks and taught me some things about pacing, plotting, and “show not tell”. So, it has been time well spent. Some of these books have also been really fun – in the genre that they are now calling “edgy” inspirational fiction (including Deanne Gist andCathy Marie Hake).
I’m not sure if Ruth Axtell Morren’s new book would be classified as edgy, but I do consider her brave. She delves into topics with boldness and grace. What I love so much about her writing is that she not only writes good fiction, but she writes well! The plots are great, the characters unique, her writing skill is outstanding. Ruth’s stories leave you reminiscing about them far after they have been read.
“The Healing Season” is due in at my local Christian bookstore tomorrow. I had to special order it as they had not even heard of Ruth Axtell Morren. I was sure to encourage them to add her books to their inventory. How I shall ever sleep tonight I do not know (perhaps that is a mild exaggeration), but I do know that I can always go take another sneek peek of the first chapter on the author’s website. You can, too, or you can get your own copy and find out what happens when former army surgeon Dr. Ian Russell encounters the enchanting stage actress Eleanor Neville. Maybe I’ll just have to lay my current read down for a while so I can begin “The Healing Season” right away!
