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Praying for Others
You sit in an ER waiting room, surrounded by an anxious family. You rushed here the moment you learned of the accident. The teenage son of your neighbor was injured in a car wreck. He is in surgery. Your friends are in shock. You’d do anything for them. But what can you do? You try… The post Praying for Others appeared first on FaithGateway.
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When Change Hurts
Note from the Author: Dear friend, This says a lot to me, you being here. It says you are feeling what I sometimes feel — like there is more than this. Your “this” may look different from my “this,” but it’s true all the same. I hope you will take this journal with you for… The post When Change Hurts appeared first on FaithGateway.
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Young Vines by James Russell Lingerfelt
The Wounded Healer Young Vines by James Russell Lingerfelt is the most serenely beautiful contemporary novel about life, love, loss and good friends. Home is not necessarily a physical place. It is also an emotional connection and when that is severed, it hurts so badly. The novel explores this theme of loss where memories keep […]
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Hope Is A Dangerous Place by Jim Baton
The Same Yesterday, Today And Forever Hope Is A Dangerous Place by Jim Baton is a thrilling Christian suspense. It is the first book in the Hope Trilogy series which promises to be exciting. The heart of God is the focus of the novel. The reader sees how God grieves when His church loses their […]
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You Can Be Crazy
Let Your Blue Flame Make You Brave Have you ever noticed that you’re more courageous when you’re acting on behalf of someone else? In college I had the privilege of interning for an executive who was as bold as she was successful. She ran her department at a tech company with precision, and she was… The post You Can Be Crazy appeared first on FaithGateway.
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When Paul Passes Phoebe the Baton
I commend to you our sister, Phoebe, a deacon of the church in Cenchreae. — Romans 16:1 NIV Phoebe was a sister, an agent or representative from Paul to deliver his epistle to the Romans, the first interpreter of that letter, and a benefactor or patron.1 I’d like to come back to this passage now… The post When Paul Passes Phoebe the Baton appeared first on FaithGateway.
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I Have Kept the Faith
I want this to be said of me… “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” (2 Tim. 4:7) I want to “keep the faith!” What about you? To keep something is to hold it. It is to hold it as dear, hold it close and hold it far from harm. It is to keep using it, practicing it, and leaning on it. Are you “keeping” faith? Keeping faith is very practical. It is asking God to keep you and to increase your faith. It is worshipping, praising, and reading God’s Word. It is to pray and listen. Do you feel full…
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The Summer Villa by Melissa Hill
Lives Entwined The Summer Villa by Melissa Hill is a most delightful contemporary novel that will have your pulse racing as you read towards the conclusion, anticipating what is to come. The novel has two time periods – ‘then’ (five years earlier) and ‘now.’ The action alternates between the two. Three strangers meet at crossroads […]
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The Bridge To Belle Island by Julie Klassen
Quintessentially English The Bridge To Belle Island by Julie Klassen is a fabulous Christian historical crime novel that I just could not put down. The action is set in the early nineteenth century in London and on the fictional Belle Island near Maidenhead. The air in the capitol is polluted in both physical and spiritual […]
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When Is It Okay to Mess with the Classics?
An upcoming retelling of Jane Eyre seems, at the very least, ill-advised. But why? Just because of our prejudices? Four or five years ago, I read about a little Twitter dust-up over S. E. Hinton’s YA classic, The Outsiders. The story is about gang warfare in an Oklahoma town, with blue-collar “Greasers” pitted against white-collar “Socials,” or Socs. Protagonist Ponyboy Curtis is the youngest member of the Greasers, Johnny Cade is Ponyboy’s best friend, and Dallas “Dally” Winston is a gang brother who brushed up his tough-guy cred on the streets of NYC. As in West Side Story, violence escalates eye for eye until two kids are dead. Though published…
