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What’s Your Story?

Usually when someone asks us about our story we think about where we’re from. What we do for a living. Our family. And that is our story. . .but God is the one writing it—not us. God has a plan … Continue reading

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The Garden Tomb – “Peace be still!”

I’ve been blessed to be inside Jerusalem’s Garden Tomb several times. I’ve seen the extra space hollowed out to accommodate a man of taller than average height. Stillness and darkness ruled in that place for three days while guards stood … Continue reading

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Walking the Walk Even in Fiction!

Faith in Fiction. As a Christian and Amish Suspense author, one of the key points I want to come through in every story that I write is God’s love and forgiveness to all. It is the greatest story ever written … Continue reading

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A Special Light

I’m not writing about Israel today, but I hope you’ll see the connection. Teaching in a small Christian college brought many special dividends. Students came from around the world and lived in our homes instead of in dorms. Sometimes their … Continue reading

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Revive Us! Revive Me!

This week, our church is having its annual revival. We have a guest speaker coming to talk each night. It will be a time to refresh, rekindle our fire, and a time to let God “wake up” His church to … Continue reading

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The God Who Helps

As told in A Traveling Grandma’s Guide to Israel, my travel memoir of nine great trips there over forty years, I’ve had several unexplained experiences of divine help. Both times, the young woman with me and I were going to … Continue reading

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Do You Have a Passport?

Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.  Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the … Continue reading

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The Dead Sea Scrolls, God’s preserved Word

As we celebrate Independence Day in the United States, let’s also thank the Lord for the proof of His unchanging word preserved in the Dead Sea Scrolls. You probably know the story. In 1946, Bedouin boys searched for a lost … Continue reading

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Happy NHL Free Agency Day!

A holiday celebrated in Canada but not in the US. It is a day when men of many nations are offered millions of dollars to come to our great land and chase a frozen piece of rubber across sheets of … Continue reading

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What’s Your Hearts Desire?

Have you ever put your heart’s desires on God’s altar? Given them to Him in order to pick them up His way? Like Moses… The LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand and grasp it (the staff that had … Continue reading

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The Priestly Benediction Prayer

The Priestly Benediction Amulet is another key proof of Israel’s long ownership of the land. Five hundred years older than the Dead Sea Scrolls, it was found in 1979 in the Valley of Hinnom between Old City Jerusalem and the … Continue reading

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Agents of Light

Recently, I was talking about my latest release, The Last to Know, and the question came up about how I personally dealt with writing dark subjects such as the villain in the book. The Last to Know features a team … Continue reading

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What Goes Wrong?

I volunteer with Advocates for Freedom, and every morning I receive a text with the names of three missing teenagers to pray for. Some of them have been gone only days, but some have been gone months, even years. The … Continue reading

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Welcome to my land . . .

As shared in my fun, helpful memoir/travelogue, A Traveling Grandma’s Guide to Israel: Adventures, Wit, and Wisdom, there’s a wonderful, little-known network of Christian believers in Israel (if you can find them) that helps travelers know where to go, who … Continue reading

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Bad Things Happen in Life and In Fiction

Sometimes it feels as if real life imitates fiction. And the other way around. Since Adam and Eve’s expulsion from the Garden, our world has been on a downward spiral toward darkness. As a Christian Suspense author, I write about … Continue reading

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