Set Your Sights On Things Above
We so quickly get our eyes off God. Let's get back into
perspective.
perspective.
9/24/2015
Clean and Christian reads!
Romance For The Heart
Welcome to our Clean & Christian Authors & Readers group. We'd like to invite you to come over and add us to your favorites, add us to your book marks and save our link so you can find it later and come back often to see what our authors are writing. We will be sharing Clean Romance, Amish Romance, Westerns, Contemporary Romance, Historical, Suspense, Cozy, Mystery and more. Christian Clean Authors Welcome We are also looking for Authors that write Clean and Christian Romance. Drop by and add your books to our Sub-genre photo albums, and feel free to advertise once a day. We love learning about new Romance novels. We do want all books to be kept at a PG-13 rating. NO erotica and if you think your book might need a rating of PG-13 or PG-17 be sure and add it to any posts you advertise. We do allow edgy romance but we don't want it too close to the edge. Our Group Motto *We believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God, and is our source of truth. Jesus Christ, God's only Son, came as a man but was still fully God. He was tempted but lived without sin, died, was buried, and rose again as the perfect sacrifice for sin. He lives today to intercede for us. Any books posted in this group should reflect this message in some way.* All authors posting here agree to this affirmation of faith. Any books posted should reflect this message in some way. Our Goal For Romance For The HeartOur main goal is to give Christian authors a great place to advertise their clean Christian Novels. We also want to help readers find good clean works with moral values that will help them understand being a Christian isn’t always easy, but that it is something we can do with God’s help. I pray that the books help and bless those who read them. If you find a book you like please leave a review and share with your friends.Being A FriendThanks for stopping by today. Blessings from all the authors at Romance for the Heart. Remember, be sure to come back to our group whenever you're looking for a good clean Christian novel. We hope you'll also invite your friends to come, too. We want to grow with more readers and more authors. We will have many great novels in our albums to help you fill the days with good clean novels that will not only entertain, but teach you a few life lessons along the way.We also have these Genre related groups, listed bellow. They are just starting but feel free to join them. In time they will grow and grow. Non-fiction Christian & Clean Mystery Romance for the Heart Thanks all images are from pixabay Samantha Fury is the author of the Street justice series. She's written many articles on book covers, for Indie Authors. She operates several Indie Groups, Editing Services, Cover Artist Groups and many more helpful Indie Facebook groups. In her spare time she designs covers.
9/17/2015
What are you Saying?I know I don't dress in the most modern style, and maybe some of my tastes are stuck in the 90's (no, not the 70's or 80's anymore), but I'm continually grateful that God doesn't judge me on those things even though some people might.
I think lots of times we look around at others and wonder what made them pick that color, or why they think that outfit works... Sometimes we even make comments on a particular style - thinking the person we're referring to doesn't realize it, or won't even notice. Or maybe we're not referencing anyone in particular. It's not like I've never done it, too, it's just that I'm now realizing how destructive those sorts of comments can be - especially to those who stand silently around us and watch, and never say anything about it. Thing is, people notice. They hear what we say when we critique a fashion or a style, and honestly it makes them feel judged, and wonder what else they're being judged for. It cuts off communication, isolating that person from the people they should feel comfortable with. Even those you consider your friends will eventually wonder what you criticize about them. And those who already feel isolated from you? They'll feel even more set aside. Because face it, not everyone has the same sense - not everyone likes the same things or has the same standards. So on one hand, while we as Christian ladies are taught never to criticize a visitor to church based on what they're wearing, we don't seem to have that same problem with criticizing each other...even if it's done in a roundabout way sometimes. Ladies, those of us in church constantly, every Sunday, every function, we can feel that judgment too. Let's not divide with our words, let's unite. I'm going to work on this in my own life.
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My newsletters go out no more than once or twice a month, and are primarily sales or announcements for a new release. So there's no need to worry about being spammed or overrun by news from me in your inbox. The story I'm offering is a retelling of an old fairy tale - but with a new and fresh twist. Here's an excerpt of the free story being included in the next newsletter: .................................................................................................................................................................. Her journey had begun three weeks before, with the request of an old man who’d come knocking at her door. He’d regaled her with a tale of woe about his youngest son, an impossibly long journey, and an evil spell. The old man’s dialect was strange, and spoken with a thickness to his words that made it hard for Bella to understand. But the bright gold he offered made his meaning as clear as she needed it to be. He needed a rescue, so he’d come to her…Bella Mae, the best hired warrior in the Seven Kingdoms. If she’d known the mission would be this impossible she’d have given him his gold back, forfeiting the second half promised upon the son’s return, and never looked back despite the fact that she’d be able to live off that amount of gold for at least a full cycle. Well, maybe she’d have taken one or two coins for the trouble of listening to the man’s sob story, but that would have been only a fair payment. But no, she’d taken his coins, endured his teary gratitude, his pledges of eternal servitude, and started out two days later, Diablo, her trusted horse, as her only companion. The crude map the old man provided had apparently been drawn by a half-blind, fully crazed ancient explorer who’d only heard rumors of the castle the old man swore was his son’s prison.
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9/10/2015
Christian Fiction FridayChristian Fiction Friday is a weekly blog hop where authors post short (400-word or less) snippets from their current works in progress. It is hosted by Alana Terry and Hallee Bridgeman. This excerpt is a little bit from the third book in the KerryAnne Dawson Mystery Series. ..................................................................................................... That next Sunday morning started out awkward. He hadn’t been able to just quit the Higher Ground class like he’d quit the editor position on my little paper. The Sunday school class relied on him, and I knew he loved it anyway. He’d never quit working in there. Instead, Tim acted like I had quit – or didn’t exist at all, throwing himself into interacting with the class as if his life depended on it. All day Saturday I had successfully avoided him, studying in my room and eating meals with Angie and the girls way before he’d be likely to show up in the dining hall. There’d been other days in the semester when I hadn’t even seen him walking across campus, but this was different. Thing is, my special sight means I can often tell other people’s reactions when no one else can. So this Sunday, whenever I walked past Tim, his energy jumped and roiled, reaching out and pulling back on itself. That’s the only way to describe it. Plus, he was quieter than normal, like he was holding a tight rein on a restless horse. At first I thought it was just normal agitation, until I saw someone else walk past him and there was no reaction at all. It was my presence that was sending him into this tailspin. Doing my best to put personal drama aside, I turned my attention back to the class, but it was awhile before I could really act like I was in the class, and not just watching myself through a window. .................................................................................................................... I hope you enjoyed this little bit from book 3, set to be released in the spring of 2016. The first two books in the KerryAnne Dawson cozy mystery series are going to be featured in a Facebook event tomorrow, Saturday, September 12. Please come check them out, as well as all the other authors that will be there throughout the day. Mystery Writers Revealed Facebook Event
9/7/2015
Guard Your HeartsYoung ladies, guard your hearts.
Young men, guard your hearts. But you know what? Guard the hearts of those around you, too. Young men, don’t flirt with those young girls when it means nothing to you. What’s harmless fooling around to you could be growing hope in a young girl’s heart, and if you don’t mean it the way you’re acting it can cause so much heartache and confusion for her. She starts to think boys just aren’t interested in her, and that there’s something wrong with her. Imagine, thinking that a guy likes her because of how he’s talking to her, and then she hears he’s asked someone else out, or that he really only thought of her as a friend. It’s a rejection, and you as the guy don’t even see it. But her heart is hurting. Young ladies, don’t create in those young men a desire that doesn’t belong to them to fulfill. And I’m not talking only physical desires. Don’t tease and flirt, hint at more and act helpless in front of him when you have no intention of ever giving him a chance to see if a dating relationship will work. Don’t hang on him and rely on him for guidance and let him be your protector when he’s got no right to be all of that to you. Don’t create a relationship that has no chance of continuing. Young people, we are too free with ourselves in this day and age. Be faithful to your marriage, even before there is one. Don’t give away every part of your precious heart to anyone who hasn’t committed theirs to you as well. Don’t learn to lean on someone who isn’t your spouse, or who hasn’t committed to become your spouse. We create these desires and we leave broken hearts behind. We forge these alliances that will have to be broken someday because they aren’t within the bonds of a potential serious commitment. We think we can have it all, the world tells us we must have it all or we’re missing out. No. No, you can’t have it all. Sorry, but it’s not even healthy to ‘have it all.’ Have it right. That’s what you should have.
9/3/2015
Overcome or Overcoming?Romans 8:35 - 39
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loves us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Sometimes I think we leave out verse 35 too much in our thinking. This passage isn't saying that we will always overcome all these tribulations - not in the way we think of it as 'overcoming.' This passage is saying that none of these things can separate us from Christ's love, and because of Christ's love then DESPITE these tribulations, we are overcomers...heirs of salvation. We might face distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, dangers and violence...but we are still loved by God and He will take us through it. |
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