This is my dream home library! {Just dreamin'}
Friday, April 14, 2017
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
The Heart-Shaped Life Daily Devotional: Choosing a Life of Steadfast Love One Day at a Time by Karen Moore
Book Description: What if you could see the world through the lens of the heart moment by moment?
What if God inspired you to walk “heart first” into every life event and circumstance, no matter what it was?
What if love was your number one priority? Love of God, love of others, and love of yourself?
Inspired by 1 Corinthians 13:2: "If I had the gift of prophecy and knew all about what is going to happen in the future, knew everything about everything, but didn’t love others, what good would it do?" . . .the Heart-Shaped Life series will encourage you to live life “heart first.”
The Heart-Shaped Life Daily Devotional provides refreshing thoughts, prayers, and scripture selections to help you discover the best path to the good life. . .which is all about LOVE!
My Thoughts: This year I've been looking for a daily devotional but it has been hard for me to find one that isn't geared to moms of young children or to younger women. So, when I received this wonderful hardback devotional I was slightly skeptical at first.
When I opened it, I thought this is IT! I have finally found the devotional book I've been looking for!
I love the simplicity of the pages. No frills, just the date at the top of the page, the title of the devotional, a verse, a short devotional and then at the bottom of the page a short prayer.
I'm not frills and ruffles type of woman so this devotional fits me to a T. I love this lovely book. And the devotional are just right. Not preachy but thought provoking.
This is one of those devotionals that makes a great Mother's Day gift or a lovely card for an individual on your prayer list.
*I received a complimentary copy of this book from Barbour Publishing and was under no obligation to post a review."
- Series: Heart-Shaped Life
- Hardcover: 384 pages
- Publisher: Shiloh Run Press (May 1, 2017)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1683220099
- ISBN-13: 978-1683220091
WOW {Warm Oven Wednesday} Resurrection Rolls...The tomb is empty!
From all recipes.com:
For Easter I'm making Resurrection Rolls, The Tomb is empty!
Ingredients:
Directions:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Lightly grease a baking sheet.
- Separate crescent rolls into individual triangles.
- In a small bowl, mix together cinnamon and sugar.
- Dip a marshmallow into melted butter, then roll in sugar mixture. Place marshmallow into the center of a dough triangle. Carefully wrap the dough around the marshmallow. Pinch the seams together tightly to seal in marshmallow as it melts. Place on a baking sheet. Repeat.Bake in a preheated oven until golden brown, about 15 minutes.
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
COTT {Clash of the Titles}
The Crown is Awarded to... Protective Custody
Congratulations to Jennifer Vander Klip
and the novel
Protective Custody
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A cop burned by love falls for a key witness in a crime implicating the town's rich and powerful.
Lifestyle magazine editor Heather McAlister was in the wrong place at the wrong time. What she saw sends her faith and life into a tailspin. As a key witness in a crime shaking the roots of the town's power brokers, doing the right thing may cost her everything. Including her life.
Detective Kyle Taylor is in the midst of solving the town's worst crime spree, a case that cold make or break his career, when the woman he thinks he might have a future with witnesses a gang initiation gone wrong before they can finish their first date. He has spent his entire adult life protecting his hometown. Now he's protecting a woman he'll risk everything to save.
With more than their future at risk, they must discern betrayal from trust, image from truth while avoiding a danger closer than they think.
Christian Romantic Suspense
What Reviewers Are Saying:
I just kept turning pages to see what would happen next! Can't wait for the next one!—R. Cole
This is my second novel from Vander Klipp and I continue to be impressed with her writing.--Kelly T.
Add this book to your must-read list!—Regina F.
What COTT Voters Had to Say:
~Great Book, Jennifer! Kept me on the edge of my seat!!
~Jennifer Vanderklipp, keep on writing. Some days it may seem as if no one appreciates
your books, but believe me, we, your readers, are out here just waiting for your next
release. A. Zuniga
~You have an awesome cover.The book sounds great.
~In love with Jennifer's writings!!!
~Enjoying so many new titles from amazing authors that pour their hearts in to their work. However I have to say that Protective Custody is a nail biter beginning to end. I could not put it down. Kudos to Jennifer Vander Klipp. Looking forward to more great reads from her.
~I like suspense like Jennifer VanderKlipp writes!
About the Author:
I make beauty from neglect, order from chaos. I like fixing messes!
And I get to do that a lot since I’m a mom to two and stepmom to four, navigating the tweens and
Upcoming Release:
Promise Me is a prequel novella to Protective Custody, and it is releasing in May. With the same great setting as Protective Custody, (Orange County, California) this story focuses on Cait Bellamy and Grayson Kendall, who make brief appearances in Protective Custody. But we also get introduced to the stars of Protective Custody, Detective Kyle Taylor and Heather McAlistair.
Marketing director for Samashima Family Farms Cait Bellamy, on a break from the endless restoration of her farmhouse, witnesses potentially-devastating vandalism at the farm. Car restoration hobbiest and real estate attorney Grayson Kendall finds himself intrigued by the happenings at the farm which seem to be related to his latest real estate development. He does some digging, unknowingly putting Cait and her beloved farmhouse in danger. Can they both learn trust each other and create something new out of the wreckage their pasts while trying to discover who wants to put the farm out of business?
To find out more about her books, her latest releases, and get free chapters sign up for her newsletter at www.JenniferVanderKlipp.com
Monday, April 10, 2017
Tranquility: A Prayer and Reflection Coloring Journal by Tyndale
Book Description: Tranquility: A Prayer and Reflection Coloring Journal invites you to mix creative journaling and coloring into your personal time with God. Prayers that focus on topics such as being thankful, dealing with stress and heartache, caring for yourself and others, listening for God’s leading, and waiting patiently on Him will guide your thoughts and calm your spirit. Filled with more than 100 designs to color, plenty of space for journaling, and 40 needs-based prayers, Tranquility will help you express your devotion to God with your whole heart.
My Thoughts: I love adult coloring books but I was wanting a devotional something more than just coloring.
So when I saw this lovely book I knew this was the one for me.
This lovely hardback book has pages for journaling and coloring. There are also places to add your own drawings and ideas.
This is more of a devotional journal that includes different kinds of prayers for the reader to study and journal/write/draw.
Since the word tranquility means the quality or state of being tranquil; calm, tranquility is a great name for this journal because as the reader mediates of God's Word this is a time of personal reflection and writing.
This book helps to bring focus into my devotional time and the prayers, the designs and the pages to write on and draw make my creative juices flow. This helps me to remember God's Word.
A wonderful book that makes a great gift or just a "card" for that special person in your life.
*This book was provided for review by Tyndale*
- Hardcover: 112 pages
- Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. (April 18, 2017)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1496421795
- ISBN-13: 978-1496421791
Friday, April 7, 2017
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
{Fiction Guild Tour} Written In Love (Amish Letters #1) by Kathleen Fuller
Book Description: When a postal error creates pen pals of two young Amish people, can they put behind their past mistakes to see the bright future God has written for them?
Jalon Chupp has a past he isn’t proud to claim. He’s worked hard to overcome his youthful mistakes, and he has recommitted himself to his faith. When he receives a sweet note included in a piece of misdirected mail, he can’t help but write back. Soon, the letters he receives from Phoebe are the highlights of his days, and with a hopeful heart, he suggests they meet in person.
Phoebe, too, looks forward to every single one of Jalon’s letters. Living with her overbearing aunt, Phoebe doesn’t have too much to look forward to. But when Jalon suggests they meet, she panics—although she has shared some of the deepest longings of her heart with him, she hasn’t been entirely truthful about her past. But when Jalon shows up at her aunt’s doorstep, everything is revealed. And she can only pray he’ll forgive her for holding back the truth.
In order to reach beyond the errors of their pasts, both Phoebe and Jalon must put their faith in something—or Someone—bigger than either of them could pen.
My Thoughts: Kathleen Fuller is one of my favorite authors. And so I was quite excited to receive her newest book, Written in Love.
This story reminds me of what it was like to have a pen pal before computers came into play and when we actually received mail instead of email.
As luck would have it, Jalon Chupp receives a letter in his mailbox that is not intended for him. But when he reads the sweet note from Phoebe he is inspired to write back to her. So, he does write her a letter.
Phoebe lives with quite an overbearing (to put it nicely) aunt. Actually her aunt is controlling and mean. so, Phoebe's life is a bit dull.
Phoebe begins to look forward to Jalon's letters. His letters become a lifeline for her.
Then Jalon wants to meet Phoebe. Whoops! This is where Jalon shows up, literally, on her aunt's doorstep to meet her.
Phoebe hasn't been quite as honest and up front with Jalon as he expected.
A sweet, witty story of perseverance, love and acceptance.
I enjoyed this pen pal book.
If you love clean romance and Amish stories, then this is the book for you.
If you love clean romance and Amish stories, then this is the book for you.
*This book was provided for review by The Fiction Guild/Thomas Nelson*
- Series: An Amish Letters Novel
- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson (March 14, 2017)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0718082524
- ISBN-13: 978-0718082529
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