I will be at The Lighthouse Christian bookstore Tuesday September 25th from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM signing Grandparenting Through Obstacles: Overcoming Family Challenges to Reach Your Grandchildren for Christ.
Twenty true stories depict challenges grandparents face in influencing their grandchildren with their Christian faith and how they are overcoming those challenges.
This book addresses four specific challenges grandparents face:
The Challenge of Parents Not Walking with God;
Long-Distance Relationships;
Non-Traditional Families (blended families, single-parent parents, and more);
Challenges in Partnering with Parents
Each chapter includes, "Grandparents in the Bible," "Points to Ponder," "Steps to Take," "Scriptures to Study," and "One Way to Pray." Also includes resources, discussion questions, ideas and more.
For every grandparent who longs to share his or her faith in Jesus Christ with their grandchildren but needs inspiration for the "how-to," ideas, suggestions, or simply to know they are not the only one who struggles with challenges. Makes a great gift for a grandparent!
I hope to see you Tuesday at The Lighthouse is at 215 Colorado Avenue in La Junta, Colorado.
There's a new blog trying to reach people who are thinking about suicide.
www.ThinkingAboutSuicide.com is rising to the to of Google searches for information on suicide. Often, when someone is contemplating taking their life, they turn to Google to find ways to carry it out.
That's where Thinking About Suicide comes in, offering information, help, and hope to the hopeless.
I think a lot of people are afraid to visit or share the information about this blog, possibly because they are afraid people will think they are thinking about suicide themselves. But the fact is, someone you know, or someone in your social networking circles, might be thinking about suicide. How many times have we lost someone to suicide and everybody says they had no idea this person was struggling! So here's how you can help:
I'm very excited that my publisher is working on the book cover art for my next book:
Prophecies Fulfilled in the Birth of Jesus
Wish I could share the cover with you, but nothing is finalized yet. You can bet I'll be sharing it here as soon as it's available.
As I was writing it, I found 35 prophecies fulfilled in Jesus' birth. You may find more (or less!) or count them differently. But this book will have 35 short chapters, each on a prophecy fulfilled in the birth of Jesus. It will make a great devotional for the Advent season.
If you're looking for a way to deepen your faith as you celebrate the birth of Christ this Christmas, or if you're looking for a small group or individual study for the Christmas season, I think you'll find Prophecies Fulfilled in the Birth of Jesus will fill that need nicely.
Watch for it to release just before Thanksgiving for the Christmas season.
Today I'll be leaving for the Rocky Mountain Conference. This is a conference especially for the staff and volunteers of pro-life pregnancy centers.
I'm hoping to talk with these staff members and volunteers about my book that was created especially for them: Deliver Me: Hope, Help, and Healing through True Stories of Unplanned Pregnancy.
Deliver Me came about because of my work on a board of directors of a small town pregnancy center. I found so many people, including my Christian friends, had no idea what we were doing in that center. They had a lot of misconceptions: that we were referring women for abortion, that we were encouraging promiscuity...
I wanted to gather true stories to showcase just what we were doing in that center. I wanted people to know the truth of what we were accomplishing. The stories of people who come to pregnancy centers are often hard stories filled with heartache, but so often through the help they receive these stories become beautiful.
That's what I wanted to share! That's what I want people to know. I wanted women and men to know that they could find caring, compassionate help. I wanted Christians to know they could confidently support their local pro-life pregnancy center. If you'll read these stories, I think you'll be convinced.
Those hard and beautiful stories fill the pages of Deliver Me. Fifty-four stories about women who want to keep their babies, men who have lost a child to abortion, women who have given a child for adoption, and more, each has a connection to a pro-life pregnancy center, a connection to compassionate help people found there. They show the picture of what pregnancy centers are really doing in and for our communities. Their story--that of the pregnancy centers--is beautiful. I hope you will check it out.
So I'm off to the Rocky Mountain Conference hoping to convince pregnancy center workers that Deliver Me is a valuable resource, both for their clients and their supporters.
It's for the local Colorado station KPJR, Channel 38, which is Trinity Broadcasting Network. I will be a guest on the local Praise the Lord TV program.
I will be talking about my life story and what God has done and is doing in my life.
The show will air a few weeks later -- I don't know when yet. If you miss it or don't get that channel (which I don't here at my house) don't worry, eventually I'll get a link where we can watch it online.
Just like that morning in 2001, September 11th occurs on a Tuesday on this 11th anniversary. As painful as it might be, it is only right that we remember September 11, 2001, and those who died, or whose lives were forever changed, on that day.
It was in the days and few weeks following the Terrorist Attacks on the United States that I wrote my first book. I, I'm sure like so many, wanted to do something. But we felt so helpless. What could we possibly do?
This little book is still available in print. It was published 6 months to the day after September 11, 2001 -- on March 11, 2002. This year, for its tenth anniversary, Dear America was republished on Kindle.
