History, Real Life and Faith
A Bride Rides Herd is the perfect title for The 12 Brides of Summer novella by Mary Connealy. Betsy Tanner is busy riding herd on a number of children and Matt steps in to help–since he’s related to them, too. While not a sequel to last Christmas’ The Advent Bride, A Bride Rides Herd follows up on stories from several of Mary’s full…
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Best-selling author Margaret Brownley contributed the Dog Days of Summer Bride to The 12 Brides of Summer Collection. Unlike the other novellas in The 12 Brides of Summer, the Dog Days of Summer Bride is not a sequel to Margaret’s 12 Brides of Christmas story. She explains why: “It’s hard for me to write sequels because when I finish a story it’s done. All…
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What safeguards do imaginative teachers and writers use when turning to the Bible? I talked about imagination and the Bible in my last post here. But because we believe the Bible is truth, it’s important to accurately understand it and to be careful not to let our imaginations run wild. Can heresy can come from an imagination that is not safeguarded…
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I use my imagination all the time when reading the Bible. I put imagination to good use when I teach Bible study. But what does that mean? For me, it started when our youth pastor, Paul Anderson, asked, “imagine how the older brother feels,” when discussing the parable of The Prodigal Son. I was a new-to-Christianity 15 year-old and in the six minutes…
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What does a picture frame have to do with the Christian life? It depends how you look at it. The idea/words popped out of my mouth a number of years ago while talking with a childhood friend. We had grown up in each other’s library books while in elementary school, but the last time I’d seen her was at the 1984…
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What does a picture frame have to do with the Christian life? It depends how you look at it. The idea/words popped out of my mouth a number of years ago while talking with a childhood friend. We had grown up in each other’s library books while in elementary school, but the last time I’d seen her was at the 1984…
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