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Scarlet tour Day 1 2007-11-26 15:27:48 Through Wednesday, the crew at the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy tour are tackling Scarlet, the second book of the Raven King (er, King Raven) trilogy by Stephen Lawhead.
I haven’t finished it yet, but I’m hoping to have my own review up before the tour is over.
For now, Grace Bridges has a perceptive review up at the Lost Genre Guild blog.
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Auralia’s Colors by Jeffrey Overstreet 2007-11-30 15:57:55
This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing AURALIA’S COLORS (WaterBrook Press September 4, 2007) by Jeffrey
Overstreet
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
By day, Jeffrey Overstreet writes about movies at LookingCloser.org and in publications like Christianity Today, Paste, and Image. His adventures in cinema are chronicled in his book Through a Screen Darkly. By night, he composes fictional worlds all his own. Living in Shoreline, Washington, with his wife, Anne, a poet, he is a senior staff writer for Response Magazine at Seattle Pacific University.
Auralia’s Colors
is his first novel. He is now hard at work on many new stories, including three more strands of The Auralia Thread.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
When thieves find an abandoned child lying in a monster’s footprint, they have no idea their wilderness discovery will change the course of history.
Cloaked in mystery, Auralia grows up among criminals outside the walls of House Abascar, where vicious beastmen lurk in shadow. T
Happy Birthday Dad Edition of the Carnival of Christian Advice 2007-12-13 11:07:57
Welcome to the December 13th, 2007 edition of carnival of Christian
advice.
questions
Jenny presents Choosing Religion posted at the so called me, wondering how her children will decide about religion as she is an atheist and the family background religiously mixed.
Hal Sommerschield, Ph.D. presents Help-How Do Parents Stop Thinking About Their Children? posted at North Star Mental Fitness Blog. By thinking, Hal means worrying incessantly.
answers
Kevin presents Teaching Kids The Meaning of Christmas posted at More4kids.
Sunny presents What is the Meaning of Advent? posted at Observation and Principles, saying, “Advent is a time for preparation and anticipation for the coming of Jesus. This article explores the meaning of advent and how we can honor the season.”
ChristianPF presents Would Jesus have an emergency fund posted at Money in the Bible | Christian Personal Finance Blog, saying, “Discussing the balance between trusting God for our needs and being wi Read more:Happy
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CFBA Tour: What Lies Within by Karen Ball 2007-12-12 14:12:28
This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing What Lies Within (Multnomah Fiction, November 20, 2007) by Karen
Ball
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Karen Ball, a bestselling novelist, is also the editor behind several of today’s bestselling Christian novels. Blending humor, poignancy, and honesty, Karen’s writing style is a powerful force for revealing God’s truth. She lives in Oregon with her husband, Don, and Bodhan, a mischief-making Siberian husky, and Dakota, an Aussie-terrier mix.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Kyla Justice has arrived. Her company, Justice Construction, is one of the most critically acclaimed, commercially successful companies in the Pacific Northwest. And yet, something is missing. Not until she's called on to build a center for inner-city kids does she realize what it is: her sense of purpose. Now nothing can stop her, not the low budget, not supply problems, not gang opposition, not her boyfriend's suggestion that she sell her business and marry Read more:CFBA Tour
Distant Heart by Tracey Bateman 2007-12-20 07:45:09
This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing Distant Heart
(Avon Inspire January 2, 2008) by Tracey
Bateman
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Tracey Bateman is the award-winning author of more than twenty-five books, including Defiant Heart, the First in the Westward Hearts series. She is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) and recently served on the board as President. She lives in Lebanon, Montana, with her husband and their four children.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Little House on the Prairie meets Francine river’s Redeeming Love in Tracey Bateman’s historical series, Westward Hearts.
This second installment follows Toni Rodden, a former prostitute who sought to escape her past and build a new life, and a new reputation, when she joined the wagon train. Despite much resentment and distrust from the other women, Toni has finally earned a place on the wagon train and found a surrogate family in Fannie Caldwell and her two siblings. For the first time in her life, T
CSFF Tour: Wayfarer’s Journal 2007-12-18 14:07:42 This month, the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy tour is taking a look at Terri Main’s ezine, the Wayfarer’s Journal
.
Fellow members of the Lost Genre Guild, thus far we’ve managed to get along fairly well for an ultraconservative fundamentalist and a “left-leaning” (as the media always puts it) Christian, though not mainline unless you count the Assemblies of God as mainline. I suppose we have this much in common: we both know what “speaking in tongues” is, and we both like a good speculative novel.
Though, as writers, our audience callings are miles apart: Terri’s more evangelistic and I’m more prophetic. The evangelistic focus being on the lost and the prophetic focus, or discipleship as it’s more frequently called, on calling those who’ve already found Him to repentance. Naturally, we both see a need for more of our own type rather than the other, because that’s the way callings function.
When I visited he Read more:CSFF Tour
Merry Christmas 2007-12-24 23:30:51 We wish you a merry Christmas
We wish you a merry Christmas
We wish you a merry Christmas
And a happy new year
Good tidings we bring, to you and your kin
We wish you a merry Christmas
And a happy new year!
Merry
Christmas!
For more Christmas cheer, check out the Carnival of Christmas, and Adam Graham’s reading of the Christmas Story on the Truth and Hope Report.
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ADAM by Ted Dekker 2008-02-22 08:41:13 This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing ADAM (Thomas Nelson April 1, 2008) by Ted Dekker
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Ted is the son of missionaries John and Helen Dekker, whose incredible story of life among headhunters in Indonesia has been told in several books. Surrounded by the vivid colors of the jungle and a [...]
Review: Around the World in 80 Dates 2008-03-14 17:51:41 As my little note says, my husband and I spent a couple months going round and round with various hosts trying to get our domain functional, hence the major reason for the huge gap in our history. I also got flooded/burned out on my book reviewing and way behind right at the same time. But [...] Read more:World
Guest Review: Quit Digging Your Grave With Your Knife and Fork 2008-03-19 17:08:32 By Adam Graham
Can you turn around a lifetime of unhealthy habits while having one of America’s highest stress jobs? Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee proves that you can.
Michael Landon, in an infamous episode of Highway to Heaven, confronts an overweight teenager about her decision to down a dozen donuts by herself, suggesting that if she [...] Read more:Guest
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Review: Winning Nice 2008-04-21 20:11:54 I had the opportunity to read Winning
Nice by Dawna Stone and honestly I come away with mixed feelings. This fairly slim volume is jam packed with useful advice for those who want to succeed in the business world, as the subtitle promises, without waging war. It’s one of those books that, if taken to [...]
My Best Friend likes me . . . Should I tell my Boyfriend? 2008-04-23 14:14:43 I am a college student and in a very serious relationship with a strong Christian guy. We have been courting for over two years and plan to get engaged within the month. Recently, one of my best guy friends admitted that he liked me. He went as far as to say that he hoped my [...]
The Cat devil Came Back . . . 2008-04-25 11:00:32 Dear Andrea,
I was physically attacked by a demon at an early age and after being born again no longer had any fear at night… lately I’ve been attacked in my dreams. In my last dream, I was tattooed on my neck and physically held down in my dream by a spirit. The numbers 6, 2, [...]
Trading Places Review 2008-05-14 09:08:43 Trading Places
by Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott promises to offer “the best move you’ll ever make in your marriage” and it largely delivers, and in less than 200 pages. The topic? A skill highly valued in many professions. Empathy. A novel idea, isn’t it? Stepping back for a moment from your own agenda to [...] Read more:Trading
Trading Places Q&A 2008-05-14 08:37:40 Ask Andrea: Empathy is a skill valuable in many areas of life. Can the techniques taught in TradingPlaces
be applied in other relationships as well, including professional?
Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott: Absolutely. While Trading Places was designed for couples - with accompanying his/her workbooks - empathy is for everyone! Especially [...]
Review: How to Get your Husband to Listen to You 2008-05-19 12:33:38 Note to CSFF tourers: I will have a review up for the webzine Mindflights tomorrow.
Nancy Cobb and Connie Grigsby seek to teach wives how men communicate in their relatively short book, How to get Your Husband
to Listen
to You. The book has plenty of advice to make it a worthwhile read, some novel [...]
Review: Mindflights 2008-05-20 13:04:26 Mindflights.com advertises itself as, “A new magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction brought to you by Double-Edged Publishing. We’ve recently combined two award-winning magazines - Dragons, Knights, and Angels and The Sword Review - into one frequently-updated, high-quality magazine.” It appears to be a speculative fiction website (ezine) that focuses upon religious themes, and
Sword Under Pillow Only Helpful if Used 2008-05-21 10:43:48 Dear Andrea,
I lost my sweet momma this last December. Since then I have had dreams of momma decomposing and her looking at me from her coffin and walking around with bluish skin because she is dead. Then twice a evil being I believe to be Satan is always after me in the end of the [...] Read more:Sword
Review: Washington’s Lady by Nancy Moser 2008-06-02 14:28:07 This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing Washington
’s Lady (Bethany House June 1, 2008) by Nancy
Moser. If you would like to read the first chapter, go HERE
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Nancy Moser is the author of three inspirational humor books and eighteen novels, including Solemnly Swear, Just Jane, and Time Lottery, a Christy Award [...]
CFBA: Sir Kendrick and the Castle of Bel Lione 2008-06-25 14:12:42 This week, theChristian Fiction Blog Allianceis introducing Sir Kendrick and the Castle
of Bel Lione(Multnomah Books - June 17, 2008) by Chuck Black
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Chuck Black first wrote Kingdom’s Edge to inspire his children to read the Bible with renewed zeal. This captivating expanded parable led him to write the Old Testament allegories, Kingdom’s Dawn [...]
Where did my review go? 2008-06-23 17:16:31 I was going to participate in CSFF’s tour for Vanished by Kathryn Mackel, had a very lovely review
praising it as the model suspense novel with the one “small” problem of being technically only half a novel, ending without any of the questions raised answered, without a climax, or any sort of resolution, which I [...]
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