8:53 AM
Anonymous
From all of us here at The Borrowed Book, to you, our readers, have a blessed holiday season! We'll be taking off until January 4th. In the interim, please enjoy our list of most popular articles found in the right sideba...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Sunday, December 21, 2014
Just eleven Psalms left. #140 thru #150 span two major themes, the first several being that of throwing ourselves in utter desperation on the Lord, the last Psalms of focused, joyous, almost ecstatic praise to His glory.
And since either, or both, can accurately reflect the Christmas season ...
I got to thinking about the original event. How a young, apparently unremarkable Jewish village girl was singled out by the awesome Lord of the universe...
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Sandra Merville Hart loves to find unusual facts in her historical research to use in her stories. She and her husband enjoy traveling to many of the sites in her books to explore the history. She serves as Assistant Editor for DevoKids.com and is a contributor for a collection of stories about answered prayer in Jesus Encounters, (Spring, 2015.) She has written for several...
Monday, December 15, 2014
-
10:38 PM
-
Anonymous
-
Author
,
DevoKids.com
,
facts in fiction
,
fiction
,
inspirational fiction
,
Sandra Merville Hart
,
Writing advice
,
Writing Tips
-
2
comments
Robert Louis Stevenson and Mark Twain once sat on a bench in Washington Square to enjoy an hour's conversation.
"Can you name the American author whose fame and acceptance stretch widest and furthest in the States?" Stevenson posed the question to the famous author at his side.
Twain believed he knew, but modesty prevented him from answering.
Stevenson quickly...
Sunday, December 14, 2014
Emmanuel. God with us.
He is the God who is with us.
Through joy, through blessings, when the road is smooth and the weather clear.
Through sorrow, through loss, through hardship. Even when it feels like He’s abandoned us to our circumstances or at least to the storm of our emotions.
Psalm 139 (NKJV) ~ For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
O Lord, You have searched me and known me.
2 You know my sitting down and my rising...
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Water from the Tiber River and Mediterranean leeched through tuff rock, creating a bone-cracking stillness in a passageway of the Catacombs of Priscilla beneath Rome.
I wrapped my sweater around me, staring at an image I had studied in seminary a decade ago: the first known depiction of the Virgin Mary. Shifting to encourage circulation and hoping to prevent lead-footed...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
-
12:05 AM
-
Anonymous
-
Author
,
fiction
,
Horton
,
inspirational
,
LitFuse
,
NLB Horton
,
Suspense
,
Writing
,
Writing advice
-
3
comments
I love the Protestant Reformation (keep reading because it gets better), partially for non-theological reasons.
My devotion exceeds Luther, Calvin, Knox, or Tyndale. I include da Vinci, Galileo, and Copernicus as well, men whose revolutionary ideas enriched a sixteenth-century world barreling from the restrictions of the Middle Ages into the light of the Renaissance.
Courage...
Sunday, December 7, 2014
One of the things I love about the Christmas season is having more reason to listen to a handful of favorite carols that, to me, serve as much as worship songs as anything. Probably my favorite, in any arrangement and style, is “O Come, O Come Emmanuel.” There’s something universally appealing about a song of any age or season that touches upon our deepest aches and longings, and points us to the hope of a Savior, and we see that all over the psalms.
This...
Thursday, December 4, 2014
Thank you to The Borrowed Book
for hosting me, day two.
Today I’d like to talk about my Amish novels, The Bargain and The Bachelor, a bit more in depth. Thanks for coming back.
The problem with writing Amish novels,
if it can be properly called a problem, is that readers are extremely
knowledgeable. “The Amish would never
do thus-and-so,” a few go so...
Subscribe to:
Posts
(
Atom
)
