Leading the Follower

First Chapter Fridays! Letters from the Earth by Nancy Flinchbaugh

In May 2015, the Earth wrote me a letter and told me to start a blog! Since then, I received more letters from the Earth which are encouraging, uplifting, and challenging. During our growing ecological crisis, this book provides a fresh voice of Gaia/God, who calls us to slow down and take time to appreciate…

First Chapter Fridays! Single, Sober, & Serious by Rebecca Benston

Have you experienced a series of bad relationships? Does it seem like you are always a victim of the old bait-and-switch when it comes to dating? Have you grown past the available pool of bachelors? If it seems like you can’t find the right guy, take heart! God has plans for you and they may…

Today’s Pondering ~ Voices

Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” ~ John 5:8 NIV~ About fifteen years ago, I suffered an injury that kept me down for about two months. If you know me, you know that I don’t like not being able to do things for myself. I don’t like being sick,…

First Chapter Fridays! Ironies, Coincidences and Absurdities in My Ordinary Life on Both Sides of the Atlantic by Henryk Hoffmann

With an honest, unbiased and oftentimes self-mocking manner, the author shares the highlights of his personal and professional life in Poland and the USA, spanning over nearly seventy years, in the form of purposefully laconic stories in a culturally and socio-politically rich context, emphasizing the uplifting, hilarious, ironic, paradoxical and absurd situations. Filled with personal…

Today’s Pondering~Everyone’s a critic…

I think the problem with cancel culture is that it doesn’t allow for any sort of creative perception on the part of the perceiver and that its overall message is that it strives to stifle that creativity with an eye toward making everyone act the same. This makes a scary kind of sense when you…

First Chapter Fridays! Here Comes Little Jenna Jafferty by Terra Kern!

Here Comes Little Jenna Jafferty is set in the 1960s before tablets, DVDs, electronic devices, mandatory seatbelts, and the loss of natural settings to explore. Jenna Jafferty is a rambunctious, bighearted little girl doing her best to find her place in her family and to understand the world around her. She wants nothing more than…

First Chapter Fridays! Man Made by Grace by Willie Deeanjlo White

“Man Made” by Grace is a play on the concept of how to become a man of God and the Grace that God has given to man. Acknowledging Christ in 1993 was a decision that at the time I believe that I did on my own, for myself, but nothing could have been farther from…

First Chapter Fridays! Through the Sliver of a Frosted Window by Robin Lynne Melet

Shine was a four-year high school Varsity cheerleader, involved in theater performances and dance classes. She graduated with a B.A. in Mass Communications from a four-year college. While in college, she stayed active with theater productions, dance classes, and her Liberal Arts curriculum. So, how did she end up in a Florida jail for seven…

First Chapter Fridays! The Bottom of This by Tramaine Hannah

Narrated by Sara Moser Bartlett. Nattalie Blythe lives in sunny California but can never seem to escape the shadow of her family problems. Her only refuge is the bond she shares with her twin brother, Nathan. But after she is horribly violated by their cousin, even he cannot rescue her from the war raging in…

First Chapter Fridays! Forgiven and Not Forgotten by Terra Kern

“Forgiven and Not Forgotten” is the story of the author’s relationship with God since her childhood combined with revelations from the Holy Spirit of what He is doing in this present season. In writing this book, God led her to revisit her past, including the dark seasons she would have preferred to have left buried…