I like the idea behind Jwyan C. Johnson’s WordPlay New Christian Parables 2: The Lawyer's Lullaby & A Maze In Grace. I like the idea that the Bible can be fun and relevant to modern life, as well as a great learning experience. My mother...

'Twas the First Night Before Christmas by Mary Beth Vonk is a charming rendition of the birth of Christ using a familiar format. This is a child-friendly book with simple yet nice artwork. The details of the biblical story of the birth of Jesus are...

Gone Before: How The Here And There Are Not As Far Apart As We Might Think by Judy Fisher is a biographical and spiritual recounting of the time she spent with her mother — during her mother’s last days — and how witnessing that passing...

Wisdom's Way: Tales, Treasures, Truths by Steven A. Barben, as the title suggests, is essentially a collection of short stories. Wisdom's Way is comprised of numerous tales, each of them on average just a few pages long, and which are meant to provoke the reader...

The Temple Curtain by Ruth Moblard DeYoung is a beautifully illustrated book about Nathan, a 12-year-old boy who lived in Jerusalem during biblical times. Poor Nathan is crippled and hates his situation, as well as his crutches, because it means he won't be able to...

Secrets of Shiloh by Jill Watson Glassco is a short Christian adventure/mystery story for children. Sixth grader Rachel suffers bullying at school, but when she gets to know an elderly man called Solomon, who tends the gardens at the Shiloh estate, the two, along with...

In A Tiny Package Unwrapped by Dave Barkey, Johann and Genevieve Stein leave war-torn Warsaw and move to Burbank, California to start their new lives together. Both grew up and met in Warsaw and, in spite of their totally opposite views on almost everything, they...

William Barrington Worden, author of Christmas Sacred, has written a short but poignant book that very well may have changed my life forever, and inspired me to hold a sign like the vagrant during the Christmas season to remind people what it’s all about. I...

In the riveting novel, Winds of Freedom by Rebecca Carey Lyles, Kate and Mike Duncan battle extreme situations in an effort to save all that they care about. Together with Mike's widowed mother, Laura, they run a bison/guest ranch, Whispering Pines, in Wyoming. Kate's Aunt...

In A Pet for Christmas by Rachelle Ayala, Kelly Kennedy falls in love with Tyler Manning, a war veteran suffering from PTSD. As Tyler travels the globe trying to find a way to exorcise the demons of war, Kelly and her five-year-old daughter, Bree, wait....